The GW Hatchet reports on what sounds like a gruesome scene in Washington Circle earlier today. An unidentified female pedestrian was struck and apparently pulled under the wheels of a large SUV sometime before noon.Senior Larissa Pardo said she was on her way to work around 11 a.m. when she witnessed the incident, which she said occurred at the intersection of 23rd Street and Washington Circle. “I thought it was a car hitting a trash…

>> Ocean City: Making it harder to score hookers on your beach weekend since 2007. [WTOP] >> Metro is going to start distributing free bottles of hand sanitizer in stations beginning next week, in an effort to prevent the spread of flu germs. Except only 2,000 riders at each station will get them, on a first come, first served basis. We’d like to suggest they distribute them based on filthiness. You should have to…

Some people love kids. Some people feel differently. Kids provide unconditional love, but they can also make any flight or train ride interminable. They have great imaginations and can be funny and sweet, but they can also ask the same question 80 times, just because they want to. But whether you’re a kid person or not, it’s hard to argue with their ability to say complete nonsense. Maybe the non sequiturs match up with whatever…

This morning DCist Ryan found a story in the New York Times about the lack of public restrooms in Gotham City. DCist Michael said he’d recently observed a tourist relieving himself in Washington Circle, and theorized that this might also be a problem in our nation’s capital. I then asked if I could come forward and tell a story I had never told anyone. Way back in the twentieth century, as a high school kid…

Wabeck Leaving Firefly, Chittum Leaving Dish and Notti Bianche Tom reports in this week’s Dish that John Wabeck, executive chef of Firefly just south of Dupont Circle, is departing at the end of the month. Wabeck has been plating up fantastic dishes for years at Firefly, which is why it ranks as one of my favorite places. Now he’s decided that he might want to pursue, according to Tom, either “the wine thing,” or “the…

Wonkette is searching frantically for pictures of a naked PETA protest taking place at the Spanish Embassy near Washington Circle. We don’t have any, but we do have a report from a faithful DCist correspondent:There are about ten to fifteen protesters, mostly women, and all wearing underpants of some sort. The ladies are topless, but strategically placed signs and pasties are obscuring most, but not all, of the actual nudity. They’re chanting something repeatedly, and…

Good morning, Washington. We hope you have had an enjoyable Halloween Weekend. As we compile this post the AP is reporting President Bush has a trick or treat this morning, depending on your point of view: his new nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court will be Judge Samuel A. Alito. The good weather will continue, today will be sunny with temperatures in the low 70s. Parks Honored at U.S. Capitol: The body of civil rights…

Walking through the campus of George Washington University last fall, we wondered aloud to a friend what the university intended to do with the site of the old George Washington University Hospital, also known as the ginormous empty lot next to the new GW hospital off Washington Circle on Pennsylvania Avenue. The site is seen to the right in a GW photo. At the time our companion mused that it would probably sit empty for…

DCist was watching the Michigan vs. Northwestern football game this afternoon at an L Street bar when ABC interrupted with a news flash that Vice President Cheney, who has survived four heart attacks, was at the George Washington University Hospital undergoing a host of tests due to shortness of breath. When the Wolverines built up a comfortable lead by the fourth quarter (Michigan beat Northwestern, 42-20) we headed over to Washington Circle to see…