Excellent local non-profit Food & Friends , which delivers meals to area residents living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses, has issued a call for help next this week, as the snow storm has hampered its ability to deliver meals to its clients. If you have a reliable vehicle, especially...

        We missed the city’s little ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday for the newly reopened Champlain Street underpass beneath the Marie Reed Learning Community Learning Center in Adams Morgan, but a quick stop by the area this afternoon confirms that one-way vehicular traffic...

Then President-elect Barack Obama eats with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty at Ben’s Chili Bowl on Jan. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) It was a year ago today that District residents awoke — likely groggy from the celebrations the night before — to a new president-elect. Barack Obama...

Two years have passed since we last saw Portuguese vocalist Mariza , who delivered a memorable performance at the Music Center at Strathmore . The Queen of Fado , as Mariza is known, will be performing this Sunday evening at the Lisner Auditorium . She is the world’s most prominent exponent of...

Two Prince William County teens who were found dead in a Triangle, Va. home on Monday died as the result of a suicide pact, the Post is reporting . Police say they may never know what prompted to Desiree Patrick, 17, and Quirinius Williams, 18, to kill themselves together, but theseWashington DC from...

Photo by sjshoreman Good morning, Washington. Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama was joined by students from Bancroft and Kimball elementary schools to harvest the White House’s organic garden . (We’re guessing the folks at NBC4 didn’t really choose their words carefully when they...

A Seriously Small Man: Michael Stuhlbarg, as physics professor Larry Gopnik, teaches his students that there is order in the universe. The Coen Brothers aren’t convinced. “I didn’t do anything!” is the repeated mantra of Larry Gopnik, a nebbishy professor of physics at a suburban...

Photo by akkleis We’ve written about the sizzling drama inside the Cleveland Park Citizens Association before, and now the Ward3DC blog reports that the “UNITY” slate, headed by longtime resident John Chelen, has been declared the winner of Tuesday’s election. Chelen replaces...

Have you had your bike stolen recently? Has the lack of breeze in your face been causing you to break down in long periods of longing and caused you to endlessly peruse Craigslist for junkers? You’re not alone. So not alone, in fact, that the police have recovered enough in-tact sets of wheels...

Photo by furcafe WTOP is identifying today’s Metro fatality as a student at Bell Multicultural High School , and offers an eyewitness account that the teen was “involved in a game of chicken,” which calls into question initial reports that he placed himself on the tracks intentionally....