Via our tipline comes a disturbing allegation about Washington’s beloved NBA all-star, Gilbert Arenas. Game-fixing! Encouraging teammates to take dives to pad his own stats! And an unrepentant attitude that makes it all that much worse. Of course, the competitive enterprise in question is Halo 3, not NBA basketball. But that makes it no less disturbing. The allegations of Agent Zero’s ill-gotten swag surfaced this morning on the forums of Bungie, the company responsible for…

Ragged Glory plays tonight at the Velvet Lounge. Can’t afford to pay $100 for a cheap seat at Neil Young’s upcoming DAR stop in November? You’re in luck. During our last chat with Ryan Walker from The Beanstalk Library, we found out he also put together a Neil Young cover band a few years back. They call themselves Ragged Glory, and the lineup plays something like a who’s who of up-and-coming local bands: Brian Kent…

FRIDAY: >> Palace of Wonders is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a literal circus of performers both tonight and Saturday. Acrobats, burlesque performers, magicians, freaks and rope trick artists are just some of the acts that will take the stage, and fortune tellers will be on hand near the bar. Tickets are $15 in advance (click here), and $20 at the door. 7 p.m. to midnight tonight, 7 to 2 a.m. on Saturday. We recommend…

>> Apparently, eighth-graders and cats have a lot in common. A Maryland teacher is accused of making three boys pee in a soda bottle, rather than escorting them to the bathroom during class. The school has a policy that students must be accompanied to the potty after a bout of vandalism and problems with kids “urinating in inappropriate areas.” We’ll go out on a limb and label soda bottles “inappropriate areas,” too. [NBC4] >> On…

Before we begin, we’d like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It’s the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we’re trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where to…

Written by DCist contributor Menachem Wecker. The city’s going to get a little bit wild this Sunday when the National Gallery of Art opens Jungles of Paris, Henri Rousseau’s first retrospective in twenty years. But even if you haven’t seen his work recently in exhibitions, Rousseau is everywhere. You can find references to his work in many children’s book illustrations, like Henry Hikes to Fitchburg or Madeline, in a Joni Mitchell song, and even in…

Need we say more? We were just forwarded an email from an intrepid downtown employee who reports that due to a computer malfunction, the Potbelly Sandwich Works at 14th Street NW and New York Ave. is unable to charge their customers anything. Yes, word on the street is that until those computers get back up and running, anyone who orders will receive their sandwich, drinks, everything, absolutely gratis. So if you skipped lunch and work…

J.T. Kirkland: Blogger, Kentuckyan, Publisher, Artist, and by day, IT guy (oh, and former DCist contributor). At least that’s what I imagined the door might say outside his studio/home when we visited him in Ballston last week. Where does the guy keep his spandex-kevlar lined jumpsuit? I was prepared to believe that he may jump out of his two story rental at any moment to call on one of his multifarious duties. But there’s focus….

In response to allegations that existing state law banning gay marriage hasn’t gone far enough in protecting traditional marriages from corrosive homosexual influences, Virginia is now considering further defining marriage as only being between a man and a woman, reports WJLA. We thought that Virginia had made their opposition to gay marriage clear enough last year with their endorsement of “Traditional Marriage” license plates, but it’s always good to err on the side of excess….

Good morning, Washington. Today it will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain, so be prepared. Flickr user birdcage from Missives from the Birdcage posted this photo of the Prince George’s County Fair to DCist photos. We are getting excited for our first birthday party tomorrow at Stetson’s – will we see you there? Cost of Living Rises in Area: Yesterday we reported and analyzed the news that affordable housing in the…