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As you know, traffic on the bay bridge this weekend is going to be a bear this weekend. They're performing emergency repairs after the tractor trailer accident a few weeks ago in which the driver that went through the guard rails and into the water passed away. As of 10:45 this morning, WTOP reports, the back up on the east-bound span is already a half-mile long. As more and more people try to get out of town for the holiday weekend, it's likely to get worse. We recommend alternate routes or, ya know, staying in D.C. this weekend.

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did...

>> Despite well-publicized problems at D.C. Schools, reading and math scores at 8th and 4th grade levels are both up in the District. [WaPo] >> Tonight is the second public meeting for the Fourteenth Street Transportation and Streetscape. 7-9 p.m. at the National City Christian Church at 5 Thomas Circle NW. [Logan Circle News] >> Westbound traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is closed while an ambulance takes an injured worker to the hospital. [AP...

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and...

In college I took a number of atmopsheric sciences classes back when I thought I might like to become an environmental lobbyist or something like that. I had one rather bitter professor who liked to spend a lot of time complaining about how TV "meteorologists" don't actually know anything about meteorology and are just washed up stand-up comics. I'm pretty sure he was talking about guys like this. The good news: this holiday weekend...

Good morning, D.C. Did you have a good weekend dodging and weaving between all those digestive disease specialists in town? We couldn't help but be impressed by the sea of 20,000 be-purple backpacked conference attendees, and kept hoping we'd meet one or two who could explain to us exactly what Crohn's Disease is anyway. WJLA was kind enough to remind us that Digestive Disease Week will have brought in $32 million to the District when...

It's Friday, D.C., and if you live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, you may have suffered a lengthy power outage yesterday after a manhole exploded and injured a Pepco worker in the area. The worker suffered second degree burns but will recover. If you're a bit of a science geek like us, you immediately began Googling something like "How exactly do manholes explode?" after you read the above story, so allow us to save you...

And a happy Friday morning to you, Washington. Heads up: Metro's Yellow Line from King Street to Mt. Vernon Square will not be running this weekend due to track maintenance starting tonight at 10 p.m. Folks will be forced off at King Street, and those going between Mt. Vernon Square and L'Enfant Plaza will be forced to ride the Green Line. Things are expected to be running back on schedule by Monday morning. Large Part...

Over the weekend the British tabloid The Sun listed the world's top 10 iconic car journeys, with U.S. roads taking five of the slots: 1. Boston to New York 2. Las Vegas to Grand Canyon; 3. Great Ocean Road, Australia; 4. Miami to Key West, Florida; 5. Amalfi Coast, Italy; 6. Pacific Coast Highway; 7. Monaco to Nice; 8. Route 66; 9. London Embankment; 10. The Rockies, Canada.And while we're somewhat miffed at how the...

Good morning, Washington. Today and tomorrow look likely to be rainy. You know when the weather was better? That's right, the good old days. Also better: the children of the past. Today's Post reports that six Manassas high school students have been disciplined after they were discovered participating in sexual activity in the school's auditorium. And WTOP reports that no police charges have yet been filed against the P.G. County student who on Wednesday attacked...

... First up, the District says that it has struck a deal with Howard University to open a hospital on 19th Street in Southeast, a quadrant of the city that is currently underserved in terms of quick access to medical care. But please note that the Post has "Deal" set off by quotation marks in its headline, saying in its lede that it is a "deal in principle."

A Vote for D.C.? Survey Says 'Yes': A new national survey indicates that 8 out of 10 Americans support Congressional representation for the District of Columbia, the Post reports. The poll, conducted by the nonpartisan polling firm KRC Research, surveyed about 1,000 people and has a margin of error of 3 percent. The firm’s president tells the Post that the "current war environment and discussion about spreading democracy around the world has an influence on people's thoughts when you ask them whether or not people in the U.S. capital should have voting rights."

Good morning, D.C. Today will be fairly rainy but not too cold, though temperatures are expected to drop significantly late tonight. Don't hold your hopes out for a white Christmas, though: the folks over at CapitalWeather tell us there's only a 15% chance of that happening. And if you're traveling for the holidays, be careful: more than one million area people are going with you. You can read a Post chat transcript with the AAA...

- The American U. Eagle has a longer piece on the closing of Visions Cinema Bistro, which characterizes the cinema's demise as "100% financial" and blames corporate competition:

Then, the opening of large chain theaters showing indie films resounded like death knells. Georgetown Loews in November 2002. AFI Silver Theatre in April 2003. Then E Street Cinema last January, bringing Landmark's clout into the downtown pond. Suddenly it was big fish versus small fish.

The daughter of a man characterized by officials as a "high ranking hamas operative" and detained for videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge told the Post the video was nothing more than recording vacation memories:

" ... Dua'a Elbarasse, 20, daughter of Ismael Selim Elbarasse, said her mother was trying to zoom in on boats in the bay. "We had taped our whole vacation, and we thought the bay looked really nice off the bridge," she said. "This has been completely blown out of proportion."

Continue reading "Daughter: Vacation Memories, Not Terror"

Maryland officials believe that they caught a "high-ranking Hamas operative" videotaping the Bay Bridge near Annapolis. From the AP via WTOP: Ismael Selim Elbarasse, long suspected by authorities of having financial ties to the Palestinian extremist group, was taken into custody last week and held as a material witness in an unrelated terrorism case in Chicago. Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich said that there isn't a specific known threat against the bridge, but nonetheless, it is...