Far be it from me to fully understand why Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa felt the need to dump all over the District this morning. But, hey, it wouldn’t really be fair to people like Spike Mendelson if we didn’t call him out on it.

Here at DCist, we’re admitted word geeks — so whenever an organization tries to give us some new words to tool around with, we get kind of exciting. (Call blogging nothing more than roustabouting, and we’ll have words, you hear?)

Here’s an interesting way of looking at D.C. that we’d never seen before: a map overlaid with the most frequently used words in residents’ online dating profiles.

There was quite the hubbub among Washington journalists about the Associated Press’ recent decision to remove the hyphen from “e-mail” in its stylebook. But I’d argue that the list of annual additions to the Oxford English Dictionary is of far wider importance. As always happens with a list of new words, there are some surprises (why were banh mi or headline not in the OED before?), some words that will ruffle a few feathers (did the religious among us needed Second Coming defined?), additions which feel pretty dated (muffin top — slightly behind on Seinfeld, are we, guys?), and new words which you know that the editors are just putting in to mess with us (wassup).

This is totally going to bring everyone down, I know, but: Travel+Leisure’s readers have arbitrarily decided that we’re a bunch of ugly people. (Not quite as unattractive as, say, Memphis, but still.)

The Germans have a lot of long words that encompass very difficult concepts. Words like “schadenfreude,” “Hubschrauberlandeplatz,” and “Verantwortungszuständigkeiten.” I don’t know if they have word for the frustration you feel when you’ve thought that your team had already managed to overcome the mistake you thought was going to cost them the game — like a fourth-quarter Ladell Betts fumble — only to discover that the relief-shattering error that was going to lead to a…

Jon Langford is responsible for way too much great art for you not to know who he is. To begin at the beginning, he’s one of two remaining original members of the Mekons, singing and playing guitar in the increasingly difficult-to-categorize onetime punk band he founded while studying art at the University of Leeds, England, in 1977. Their albums Fear and Whiskey and Edge of the World, from 1985 and 1986, respectively, were among…

Harry Jaffe: In writing something of a goodbye column to RFK Stadium, Jaffe recounts the many struggles the District overcame to attract a baseball team. And though plenty of people played important roles, he feels that one deserves extra attention — former Mayor Anthony Williams. “The hero of the piece has to be Williams, an unpopular mayor who — despite his wandering attention span — kept swinging away at an unpopular crusade to use public…

>> 9:30 Club has Editors, Ra Ra Riot, and Biffy Clyro. $15 tickets still available, and don’t miss our full preview of Ra Ra Riot by clicking here. >> Michael Powell’s 1969 erotic drama Age of Consent features a young Helen Mirren in her film debut. Screening for free tonight at 7 p.m. at the Library of Congress’ Pickford Theater. Call (202) 707-5677 by 4 p.m. to reserve a seat. >> Malcolm MacPherson covered Ambassador…

>> SiteProjects DC, which we reviewed last month, is ongoing throughout the 14th Street NW stretch, with special events sporadically showing during its run. Since Tuesday, Kathryn Cornelius has been performing her Art Services (Waste) at venues along the corridor. Tonight find her at Hemphill Fine Art from 4:30 to 5 p.m., then at Gallery Plan B from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Tomorrow see the act at Adamson Gallery from 4:30 to 5 p.m., then…