Officials have identified Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old from Texas, as a gunman in this morning's shooting at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard. Alexis, who was recently hired as a civilian contractor by the Navy, allegedly used a rifle, an AR-15 assault rifle, and a handgun to kill at least 12 people Monday morning at the…
Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed a bill Thursday that would require large retailers, like Wal-Mart, to pay their employees a “living wage” of at least $12.50 an hour. Last month, Wal-Mart said it would walk away from plans to build at least three stores in the District if the bill was passed.
You'd think an undercover police officer embedded in the protest scene in Washington DC would know enough not to have an active presence on social media. Fortunately for DC-area protesters, veteran police officer Nicole Rizzi, who allegedly worked undercover for at least three years in the city's protest scene, was…
You may remember Washington Post writer Sally Quinn, a human pearl earring, as the woman who uses her column space in one of America's most important newspapers to gossip about the minor turmoils of her own family. What does such riveting work afford the creepy Grande Dame of Washington Society, who is also married to…
The green vandal strikes again.
We all know that "DC" has traditionally stood for "Duh, [our] City [is an epicenter of hipness]." An ill (slang for "bad") wind this way blows, however. Could gentrification be threatening Chocolate City's young, hip vibe?
A shirtless man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after witnesses saw him attach a .45-caliber handgun to his belt near a Secret Service police booth outside the White House. Upon being taken into custody, the man, Christopher Briggs, reportedly told officers he was "was only going to fire a couple of shots if no one…
Most of the time, the heart of our nation's capital is a monument to monumentalism, the neoclassical ostentatiously trying to pass itself off as the eternal. But for a few years at the end of the 20th century, the architectural stasis was interrupted by something weird and charming: the Washington Monument became a…
The New York Times supplied a copy of Mark Leibovich's obsessively anticipated study of Washington self-obsession, This Town, to onetime Boston Globe Washington bureau chief David Shribman—who now does something or other in Pennsylvania or maybe Ohio?—and the paper was rewarded with a book review that begins like this:
At least two-thirds of Washington, DC residents are racist.
A red panda missing from the National Zoo was found and captured in a bush in D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood this afternoon. He was probably just after some Jumbo Slice.
The surest sign yet, if you needed one, that President Obama's nominee for the CIA's number-two position is a middle-of-the-road D.C. establishment choice: She used to run an erotica reading night at a bookstore.
The latest Fed report on student loan debt includes some neat-o maps showing how all of America's student debt is distributed geographically. Washington DC sure is smart, and broke!
Federal offices in D.C. were shut down as a "sloppy winter storm" migrated from the Midwest, aiming to throw down four to six inches of snow onto the capital today.
On Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., the city's Metro green line, which connects its southern fringes to its northern extremities, up and stopped moving during rush hour after workers accidentally cut power to it while battling a fire. What ensued, according to one eyewitness account from a man named Scott, was a…
It's almost the night before Inauguration Day and no one in the entire city of Washington D.C. has a single thing to wear. The Wall Street Journal provides an investigative report:
Since there's virtually no actual crime in Washington, D.C., officers of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department have set their sights on NBC's resident silverfox/bad boy David Gregory.
Any hip motherfucker worth his titanium hip knows that our nation's capital, Washington, DC, is also our nation's hipness capital, thanks to the young, hip vibe that permeates the city's air like the stench of a half-eaten half-smoke resting in the gutter outside of an upscale Half-Smoke Lounge that harkens back to…
The Family Research Council, which was the target of a shooting attack earlier this week, issued an remarkably hypocritical statement today that placed some blame for the shooting on the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Council's president, Tony Perkins, said the shooting was made possible by the SPLC's criticism of…
A gunman reportedly attacked the Washington D.C. offices of the Family Research Council this morning, injuring a security guard before being wrestled to the ground.
