Photo by Aziz Y. Heartbreaking reports from ABAJournal , Above the Law and LegalTimes : Attorney Mark Levy, who was recently laid off from Kilpatrick Stockton, appears to have shot and killed himself in his D.C. office today. Most brutal part: “An e-mail sent to Levy this morning produced this...

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Performance One could argue that in Mick Jagger’s feature film debut, he’s simply playing himself. Jagger plays Turner, a charismatic rock star living in...

Photo by yonas1 Metro’s board today caved to mounting pressure to avoid massive Metrobus service cuts and voted to make only $2.5 million worth of cuts instead of $13.6 million, reports Lena Sun in the Post . In order to make up for a predicted budget shortfall, the board voted 5-1 to dip into...

A member of the White House advance team and his family are also preliminarily being looked at as swine flu patients, reports AP. But just like the World Bank employee, the White House staffer and his family all live in Maryland, so this too is not counted as a District of Columbia case. “We still...

Earlier today the World Bank announced that one of its D.C.-based employees had preliminarily tested positive for swine flu , but it turns out that should the case be confirmed by a second test, it wouldn’t actually be counted as the District’s first case. World Bank spokesperson David Theis...

With a hat tip to Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim , it seems that Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) got up to speak on the House floor yesterday about an amendment to the hate crimes bill, and ended reading off a very, very long list of peculiar sex acts. “I apologize to our transcriber,” he...

A grease fire this morning partially damaged Todd English’s Olives restaurant , located at 1600 K Street NW. Smoke billowed out from the restaurant and up 16th Street just after 11 a.m. this morning, but the fire has since been contained. A hostess who answered the phone around 1:30 p.m. confirmed...

First lady Michelle Obama volunteers at the Capital Area Food Bank on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) You’ve got to hand it to Michelle Obama’s staff: they seem to have a good grasp of which local D.C. nonprofits are deserving of a little First Lady face time. Obama, along with...

InspirationDC captures the last shot of Nationals Park prior to its nuclear destruction by the Angry Baseball Gods. All players having a last name starting with ‘Z’ are safe, but a bullpen can only blow so many saves before the higher powers exert their Ultimate Authority. Sadly, the rain...

Photo by aire libra Animal rights group PETA has submitted an application to Capitol Police to set up an actual pig pen on the steps of the Capitol, complete with fans to blow the odor of urine and manure toward lawmakers, The Hill is reporting . PETA, long known for its aggressive tactics to promote...