A pair of Transformers sculptures placed outside a Georgetown rowhouse have fascinated visitors and infuriated some neighbors for more than two years, but their days may now be counted.

A historic preservation board said that while it would support a temporary reprieve for Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, the two sculptures could not remain outside a Georgetown home in perpetuity.

A homeowner on Prospect Street put up massive sculptures of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee outside his home in January, fascinating children while angering neighbors who say they don’t comport with the neighborhood’s historic character.

Even though the Pentagon has no problem helping out a movie like Transformers, it found The Avengers too unrealistic to lend its support.

At long last, Sinclair Skinner’s animated history of Adrian Fenty has reached its denouement. In the last chapter, set the morning after his September 2010 loss to Vince Gray, Fenty sounds like a giant robot.

Not to get all TMZ on you guys or anything, but its not often that we get the chance to post about cranky interactions between Hollywood stars and Washington paparazzi.

Here’s an ad from Craigslist’s missed connections section that seems totally appropriate, considering that the gentleman in question is only in town for a few days. Who says robots don’t need to get it on?

The second Transformers movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is apparently filming in Washington right now, because people keep sending us celebrity gossip reports that actor Shia LaBeouf allegedly set off a smoke alarm inside a bathroom at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum over the weekend when he tried to sneak a cigarette inside the building. The story seems to have come entirely from the National Enquirer, however, so we should probably take…

Their debut album has been out for almost two years and somehow the outside world is only just getting to know them as that band that has that backward music video on YouTube. However you know them, Mute Math (or TBTHTBMVOYT, for… short?) is hitting up Sonar in Baltimore tonight for an evening of art rock/post rock/electro rock/whatever the hell music snobs and critics want to label it as. The band has come a long…

After an interstate bridge collapse in Minneapolis killed four people yesterday evening, authorities in the Washington metro area are reassuring drivers that the region’s bridges are safe, and there’s no reason to think something like that could happen here. The Minneapolis bridge was in the midst of being repaired, and there are several major bridges in D.C. also undergoing construction, including the the Wilson Bridge and the Douglass Memorial Bridge — though the latter has…