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Occupy DC calling press conference over weekend incident

‘TAKEOVR’courtesy of ‘jasonepowell’ This past Friday evening, four pedestrian protestors were struck in the street near the convention center by a driver trying to leave the area that had been surrounded by the protest.  Three of them were issued citations for blocking the roadway, one of which was served at the hospital. Yesterday, a hastily [...]

High-Pressure Gas Leak in Dupont

‘fire truck’courtesy of ‘volcanojw’ The twitter account of the Firefighters Union, @IAFF36, is reporting this morning that there is a high-pressure gas leak at 2121 Massachusetts Avenue this morning in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, with hazmat trucks in response.  The buildings in the surrounding area have been evacuated as a precaution. The area near the [...]

Early Morning Shooting, Crash Wakes Brookland

Just before 4am, a loud boom woke me from a cold sleep. I got up, looked around, and lay back down until I heard the sirens of a significant police and fire response. Dressing quickly, I was outside about 4:15am this morning, to see Engines 15 and 17 fighting a car fire in my neighbor’s [...]

Ginormous Cupcake Spotted At Georgetown Waterfront

Brooks Brothers Opens On Georgetown Strip

This year’s latest addition to the Georgetown shopping scene is New York based Brooks Brothers which takes over the former Pottery Barn and Smith Hawken spaces on the corner of M & 31st Street NW. When I attended their grand opening party last week, I had completely underestimated how large this combined location would be. [...]

DC Mourns Steve Jobs At Apple Store

If you walk by the Georgetown Apple Store, you’ll find that to left of the store’s entrance, DC Apple lovers have created an impromptu memorial to Steve Jobs filled with posters, letters, flowers and many apples. Personally, I found these tributes to be the purest and most genuine expressions of how Mr. Jobs and his [...]

Circulator moves East of the River

‘Room & Board View Tilt-Shift’courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ Starting today, the Circulator bus will now have a line that starts east of the Anacostia, running between the Skyland shopping mall at 30th & Alabama Ave SE in Hillcrest to the Potomac Ave SE Metro station in Hill East, by way of the Anacostia [...]

DC, Consider Yourself Occupied

” courtesy of ‘amreese13′ Since Occupy Wall Street has already inspired an Occupy Omaha and Occupy Ljlubljana, Slovenia, it should come as no surprise that a similar protest has arrived at the nation’s capital. On Saturday, Occupy DC began its (potentially never-ending) takeover of McPherson Square. Members hail from the District and, up until this [...]

Chief Lanier defends uptick in deployment against FOP complaints

‘Police lights’courtesy of ‘BrianMKA’ When Chief Cathy Lanier declared a “crime emergency” state late last week in response to the rumored threat against the DC and NYC areas, which allowed her to move officers to 12-hour shifts if necessary, as well as cancel existing leave. That can certainly be frustrating to a department’s employees, and [...]

Ellington Bridge currently closed over suspicious package

‘Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge’courtesy of ‘dbking’ The Duke Ellington Bridge on Calvert Street between Woodley Park and Adams Morgan is currently closed while the Bomb Squad handles a suspicious package. In light of the outstanding threat, the overwhelming response from MPD and the Federal Protective Service bomb squads is mostly precautionary. The L2 bus, amongst others, [...]

Post says: Bikeshare coming to the Mall

‘Capital Bikeshare on the Mall’courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’ Good news, DC! It looks like the Park Service and Capital Bikeshare have struck a deal to add stations to the Mall. While there are several big questions outstanding still, including location and who will pickup the $23,000 annual maintenance on a bikeshare dock. It [...]

Crowdmapping Irene

As we get into the stronger part of the storm, news gets more and more important about what’s closed and what’s not, what’s been damaged and what’s fine, and the state of things. We’re working with some friends who are using crowd sourcing reports to build maps of the DC area outages. If you want [...]

VIDEO: DC Earthquake Interrupts My Workday

As you all know, an Earthquake has hit the East Coast. When the quake happened I was in the middle of a video shoot with my co-worker Danny when all of a sudden our 14th floor office in Rosslyn started to shake. Watch the video to see Danny’s reaction. 7 people like this post. Like [...]

Metro struggles in storm aftermath

Photo by Gordon Withers, special to We Love DC About 10:30 last night, as I was getting ready for bed, the heavens were rent asunder, and the entirety of a swimming pool was dumped on my back yard. For the next 30 minutes or so, the storm was without pause. Across town on Twitter, the [...]

Harry Thomas agrees to repay $300,000

‘PRE_1226′courtesy of ‘MissChatter’ Late Friday, the story broke that Councilman Harry Thomas had agreed to repay $300,000 to the city as part of a settlement with Attorney General Irv Nathan regarding monies spent by Team Thomas. The repayment, made without interest or penalties, will be made in six payments of $50,000 over the next two [...]

DC’s Dolcezza On Today’s The View at 11am

‘Dolcezza 6156′ courtesy of ‘yospyn’ Huzzah! DC’s very own Dolcezza will be on ABC’s “The View” today at 11am and we’ll get to see owners Robb and Violeta Duncan chumming it up with Whoopi, Sherri, Joy, Elizabeth and Babs. I can only assume they’ll be talking about: 1) Gelato–in particular their seasonal summer flavors (Peach, [...]

LLS To Host Bobby Mitchell Hall of Fame Golf Classic in Leesburg This Weekend

’170/365′ courtesy of ‘Danilo.Lewis|Fotography’ The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is hosting the Bobby Mitchell Autotrader.com Hall of Fame Golf Classic this weekend at Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va. from July 8 through the 10. Over $7 million have been raised in support of this annual event since 1988. Now, 21 years into the effort, its [...]

Woman Falls To Her Death At W Hotel’s POV Bar

Horrible news this morning of a woman falling from the 10 story W Hotel POV rooftop bar last night to her death. Eyewitnesses report that the not yet identified woman had been drinking at the bar and that she climbed over the rooftop patio’s fence. Secret Service was on hand last night and all lanes [...]

A Top 10 List We Can Be Proud Not To Be On

Travel + Leisure readers have spoken and our nation’s capital is not one of the top ten dirtiest cities in America. In the publication’s annual America’s Favorite Cities survey, participants gauged “dirty” in a variety of ways: litter, air pollution, even the taste of local tap water and the publication found New Orleans, Philadelphia, Memphis, [...]

Shortly after Nationals win 11th of 12, Manager Jim Riggleman Resigns

‘Washington Nationals manager Jim Riggleman (5) and Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter (26)’courtesy of ‘Keith Allison’ Shortly after today’s dramatic 9th inning 1-0 win over the Seattle Mariners, the team’s 11th in 12 games, and 16th in 21 games, Manager Jim Riggleman quit his job over a contract dispute with the Washington Nationals. The world [...]