By Shailagh Murray BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — After a prayer event nowadays with local evangelical leaders, Sen. Barack Obama made for the border. From Hope Park in downtown Brownsville, Obama looked across the Rio Grande into Mexico. He joked to reporters, “If you want to invent a break for it…,”...

Former president Bill Clinton speaks at Harding High School February 29, 2008 in Marion, Ohio. (Getty Images.) By Perry Bacon Jr. MANSFIELD, Ohio — Former president Bill Clinton admits the choice within “Hillary” and “her opponent,” whose name he nearly never uses on the...

Talk about speed. It was Monday that the District proposed three designs for their personalized quarter, all bearing the slogan “Taxation Without Representation”; Wednesday that the U.S. Mint curtly rejected the designs; and late yesterday that city officials submitted three new design proposals...

>> “Metro’s board of directors yesterday approved rules designed to spur quality development around Metrorail stations.” [WaPo] >> Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled that the regional authority created by the General Assembly to levy taxes for Northern Virginia transportation...

Another to add to the trite food list? that week Tom Sietsema wrote a feature composition about tasting menus. He posits: They tend to be too much food and require too much of a moment commitment. … When I’m shelling out hundreds of dollars for dinner, I want an impression of more than the...

Another to add to the trite food list? that week Tom Sietsema wrote a feature essay about tasting menus. He posits: They tend to be too much food and require too much of a day commitment. …When I’m shelling out hundreds of dollars for dinner, I want an impression of more than the first thing...

Chicago 10 is a thoroughly entertaining look at the notorious 1969 trial of the group that came to be known as the Chicago 7 — which is to be expected, as its director, Brett Morgan, previously made a similarly inventive and engaging documentary on legendary film producer Robert Evans, The Kid...

By David Montgomery Barack Obama’s campaign is enjoying another hip, tuneful, B-list-celebrity YouTube moment — that day with an overt appeal to Spanish-speaking voters — courtesy of musician will.i.am. The new video, called “We Are the Ones,” comes days before the critical...

March: Miller insanity. Arthur Miller’s getting fairly the treatment in D.C. that month. We’ve got the major festival going on at Arena Stage, which is showing Death of a Salesman (March 14) and A View From A Bridge (March 21). And by at Theater J, The Price is being staged as well (March...

It isn’t easy being indie. by the past few years, digital downloads, big box stores, and high rent prices in the District have forced several of the city’s independent record stores to go out of commerce. Revolution Records in Van Ness shut down in 2006, hoping to move to a better location,...