Tonight is the night — we’ll be celebrating Butterstick’s one-year of cuteness at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in Adams Morgan, 1725 Columbia Road, NW. And in his honor, we’ve gotten some good drink specials lined up — $5 Captain Morgan drinks, $4 Paulaner Hefeweizen’s, and $3 Pabst drafts. From what the zoo folks tell us, Butterstick loves his Pabst. There will also be some good music on both floors. And yes, we do have a…

Great wall of Chinese take-out! Tom over at Unrequited Narcissism has uncovered what could be the most gruesome scandal to hit the District, nay, the entire country in decades. The information he reveals is a call to arms, and when there is war in the name of Butterstick, you can count on DCist to strap on plenty of ammo and indiscriminately shoot into crowds, regardless of the presence of innocent bystanders, as long as we…

If you have any interest in the future of U Street and Shaw as a whole, the District’s Office of Planning and Economic Development and the Office of Planning is hosting a forum tonight on the future of planning in the neighborhoods, especially along the U Street and Seventh Street corridors in Northwest. The session will address “the redevelopment of key publicly-owned buildings and land, including the Howard Theatre and Grimke School on Vermont Avenue,…

In the wasteland that can be D.C.’s music scene, it’s not all that often that we have any exciting news for you. The city had a string of excellent concerts in the fall, but since then, DCist has been sitting on our proverbial couch, twiddling our proverbial thumbs and attending the few concerts that pique our interest (one of which will be the delightful Ted Leo/Washington Social Club event at the Black Cat tomorrow evening)….

Welcome back from Labor Day weekend! Here’s some of what you might have missed: — Some in Dupont Circle blame an inept District government for waiter’s murder — Respects being paid at Russian Embassy in memory of Belsan school victims — Are Georgetown, Northeast bank robberies linked? — Jennifer 8. Lee joins Rock Paper Scissor “cult” — Metrobuses get advertising paint-job — New Arlington logo looks “drunk” to some — What’s your favorite District Safeway?…