Photo by {ryan} As a competitive cyclist who mourned the postponement of this year’s only professional race in the District, I was ecstatic, though slightly skeptical, to stumble acros the news this morning that organizers of the Giro d’Italia, one of the three grand tours of international...

With the endless parade of legal dramas, small claims reality shows, and an entire network devoted solely to the wheels of justice, it’s understandable if you’ve hit the point of fatigue for any sort of filmed courtroom experience. Improbably, director Joe Berlinger actually brings something...

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham (right), and DDOT Director Gabe Klein (left) were among those on hand to dedicate the new Columbia Heights Plaza on Monday morning. The fountain water flowed as District officials gathered this morning to formally dedicate the completion of the...

Earlier this month at a D.C. screening at National Geographic’s headquarters, director Cherien Dabis said that watching films like Truffaut’s The 400 Blows were what finally allowed her to make her first feature. Realizing that one really could make a great story out of the experiences of...

Most people would probably look at the story of Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland executive who donned a wire for the FBI in the early ’90s and became the most famous (and highest ranking) corporate whistleblower in history, and see it as a tragedy. Between what it has to say about willful...

                            If they’d been born a generation earlier, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley — the husband-and-wife core who founded Yo La Tengo in 1984 — might have worked in the Brill Building and earned...

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino has been talking about making a World War II movie for a good ten years now. If you know anything about the director, you know...

              The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has had quite the year so far. Last month they were visited by astronaut heroes from the beginning of the space race all the way through the latest space shuttle missions; they’ve continued to build...

Remember when that 75-foot-wide river that washed Bethesda away after that water main break ? That wasn’t Juanita Miller ’s fault. But almost everything else is. At least, that’s the way Miller’s many critics have seen it over the course of her career with the Washington Suburban...

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. No Direction Home Martin Scorcese’s love of ’60s and ’70s rock music frequently works its way into his films, and also led to the seminal rock performance...