Photo by Markus Krisetya WJLA has sources who say Deborah Ann Brown, the woman who was shot and killed in the 2900 block of 14th Street NW on Saturday night, was likely an innocent bystander . Holla Back DC shares some of the responses they’ve received from men trying to justify street harassment....

Apparently we don’t rate the press distribution list of quixotic anti-same-sex marriage obsessive Bishop Harry Jackson, as we had to find out from D.C. Wire today that he has put out a new statement about his intentions of trying to get a gay marriage initiative on the ballot for a second time....

WJLA points to this Georgetown Hoya article reporting the latest in a long string of sexual assaults on female students at the Northwest D.C. university. A woman living in off-campus housing in the 1200 block of 33rd Street NW reported that a break-in occurred at about 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. “The...

By DCist Contributor Ryan Little These United States do not stop moving. They’ve put out three albums in the span of about two years (last was Crimes , which we learned about from the band ), and they’ve played who knows how many shows in between ( ed. note: guitarist Tom Hnatow estimates...

Don’t even pretend that Marion Barry was your first guess. Reporter Matt Labash has penned a lengthy, conversational-in-tone profile of D.C.’s “Mayor for Life” and current Ward 8 D.C. Council member. What’s especially intriguing about this article is how choosy Barry typically...

Perhaps you’ve been enjoying the often entertaining fake Adrian Fenty Twitter feed, @fentydc , for some time now. We know we have. A recent example why: “Reporters, go ahead and rail about my unexplained travel, compulsive workout schedule and Axe body spray-but lay off my kids. Seriously.”...

Sometimes the best part of having all these photogenic monuments in the city isn’t the monuments themselves, but all the random folk who come out to do photo shoots by them. Weddings parties, fashion models, tourists from Oklahoma – all of them line up to get a portrait with President Lincoln....

A man was shot at around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday night in the 1300 block of 5th Street NW, and police now say the victim has died from his injuries. The man’s identity has not yet been released, but according to D.C. police, he was a Maryland resident. Anyone with information about this crime is...

Larry Frankel The man who was found dead in Rock Creek Park on Friday has been identified as Larry Frankel, 54. Frankel was State Legislative Director for the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, and previously served as executive director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Sources say Frankel had...

Taco Bell is capitalizing on the roving food cart trend with a cross-country tour giving away free tacos. (Insert free gastrointestinal problem jokes here.) They’ll be handing out tacos outside the GW Student Center from 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. before moving on to Rosslyn, near N. Moore and 19th...