Bishop Harry Jackson is pretty much everywhere when it comes to fighting marriage equality in the District. If he’s not filing ( unsuccessful ) legal challenges the city for turning down one of his requests for a vote on the definition of marriage, he’s submitting another request for another...

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The sad final chapter of the career of Heath Ledger comes to a close with the opening of his incomplete performance in Terry Gilliam’s...

Callie, Ashley, Ty and Emily at the Metromix Real World D.C. premiere party last night. Photo by emilygoodstein . More than a few of us dutifully watched the premiere of The Real World D.C. last night, ready to pounce on any slights or rush to correct any common misconceptions made by the show’s...

WARNING: This post contains Top Chef spoilers, albeit from last week’s episode. Washington DCno further if you are behind on this season. Zaytinya’s Mike Isabella heard those fateful words, “please pack your knives and go” on last week’s episode of Top Chef . The chefs...

Photo by Kevin H. As we noted in the Roundup this morning , WMATA is experiencing a major disruption of its electronically based services today after an overnight power outage. We just received a press release from Metro, however, which means that at some of the transit agency’s services have...

                            The District is the best place to spend Halloween in the living world. D.C. is a city where a sign reading “Stop the Capital Braaains Tax” is a welcome part of an undead teabagger’s costume....

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...

Left wing propagandist, or righteous speaker of truth to power? Hypocritical blowhard or man of the people? Egotisical hack or talented documentarian? Chances are you already have a strong opinion about Michael Moore, and already know if you’re planning to check out his latest film, Capitalism:...

Photo by kimberlyfaye I’ve never been to the National Harbor — I don’t think I can stand to see “The Awakening” anywhere but at Hains Point — but from what little I knew, it’s not a place you live. Sure, you’d go there for a conference, maybe to shop,...

Picture by laura padgett It was eight years ago today that New York, Washington and Pennsylvania suffered the terrorist attacks that are said to have changed America, both inside and out. The further away we get from those events, the more they seem like an abstract memory and the more we find ourselves...