>> Jenna Bush has been named 'Person of the Year' by Reliable Source. [WaPo] >> The owner of Tunnel Fine Wines & Spirits, which recently opened at 3rd and H Streets NW, was robbed at gunpoint in the store and shot in the leg late last week. [Penn Quarter Living] >> An elderly couple died in a house fire on the 3100 block of Oliver Street NW this morning. [WTOP] >> Area charities are......

>> Runners at the Army Ten-miler are saying there wasn't enough water on the race course. [WTOP] >> Former Mayor Anthony Williams hearts Jenna Bush's new book. [Capital Comment] >> D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks out to defend the records and reputations of the two officers involved in the killing of DeOnte Rawlings, while his father calls for their arrest. [WaPo and WJLA] >> Columbia Heights day was a bit of a bust.......

Written by DCist contributor Claire Compton Friday night at Clarendon Ballroom felt like a nightmarish sorority semi-formal, when hordes of mostly twenty-something women stormed Arlington for HOT 99.5's Lil' Black Dress Party. Party host Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavendeira, has captured the minds of the celebrity-obsessed with his questionable photoshop skills and invented words, such as "whoreanous." We're going to borrow the term just this once (forgive us) and call the scene outside of the......

>> Jenna Bush is engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager. No word on whether their wedding will be held at the White House. [AP] >> Shaw isn't really the second bloggiest neighborhood in the country, but Washington is the fourth bloggiest city. [Free Ride] >> Donald Rumsfeld resigned as secretary of defense one day before last fall's elections, even though President Bush did not announce the move until the day......

We've been looking forward to the launch of Patrick Gavin and Jeff DuFour's new daily Beltway column, "Yeas and Nays", for a few weeks now, largely so we could finally be sure just what sorts of topics the two would be covering under the somewhat inscrutable decscription of "people, power and politics." C'mon guys, that could be about anything from the current brouhaha at The New Republic to what kind of toilet paper Vice President......

Though the region got itself in a tizzy over the record rains of Deluge 2006, there was plenty else that happened. We reported on the RAMMYs, saw a coup d'etat at Politics and Prose, marveled at the Washington Times' new intern blog, and debated whether or not Pierre L'Enfant should go to Congress. We checked out The Roosevelt, discussed Freddy Adu's defection from the District, and found out that heavy rains can cause both......

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy......

The ladies of the Reliable Source break Washington's heart this morning, revealing that Jenna Bush, who's lived in Washington and worked as a teacher for over a year, is preparing to leave the city and the country. The Source notes that she's moving out of her apartment and back into 1600 Penn until she's ready to leave for a new teaching gig, somewhere in Latin America. Says the Post:The move reflects the growing seriousness of......

This week we saw more and more news on church parking, took a look inside the District's restaurants, tried to find the region's cheapest gas and celebrated the nation's interstate system. We talked to Deleted Scenes and Alec Gross and the Districts, found some great roast beef, analyzed the region's ubersexuals and took a stab at Jenna Bush's new hairstyle. We remembered school lunches, reviewed the news in transit, and saw The Strokes at......

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for......

This post was written by DCist contributor Campbell Roth. He's done it again. TOKA Salon and Day Spa owner Nuri Yurt, the man behind First Lady Laura Bush's "softer, more glamorous look" (stop laughing!) in 2005 is now heralding his latest work of art, First Twin Jenna Bush's "famed new hairdo." To which we say: Huh? According to Yurt's press release, "numerous news accounts" of Jenna's new style have made him the buzz of the......

We often flip through the Washington Times, sometimes for some comic relief, sometimes to see how the conservative newspaper views local news. In perusing its pages today, we came across a column written by Tom Knott, the Times' answer to the Post's well-known and well-liked Metro columnist Marc Fisher. Today Knott -- often known for taking some creative license with his writing -- describes a conflict between a neighborhood bar and residents who want it......

A friend is getting a Dubya mask for Halloween, but I feel like there's so many other D.C. characters and entities that would make for better costumes. Any DC-themed costumes you can suggest? (Please help, otherwise I'm doomed to show up on the 31st as either Jessica Cutler or the Metro!) DCist was staring vacantly into our computer screen thinking of taking the week off of Ask. But when this question came in, we knew......

When we posted about popped collars in October 2004, the people were divided. While some decried the practice as a "pointless fashion trend" reliving a short reprise from its heyday in the 1980s, other readers (and at least one DCist) defended it as a harmless variation in the otherwise bleak world of men's fashion. The whole issue had slipped from our consciousness until we noticed this sign outside of Cafe Saint-Ex last Friday. After a......

First Matt Damon dumps Minnie Driver on Oprah, and now Laura Bush goes on ABC's "Good Morning America" to gossip about daughter Jenna's new flame? The NY Daily News picked up on some comments that the first lady made to GMA host Charlie Gibson, regarding Jenna's new BF Henry Hager. Take heart you good looking, rich, single, male Republicans! Apparently, Hager isn't a "serious" boyfriend, and it seems Jenna's still on the prowl. Despite Hager's......

As Rush and Molloy reported yesterday in the NY Daily News, Jenna Bush and a group of friends were supposedly rejected from renting a house in Cleveland Park, a house belonging to The New York Times' Paris bureau chief. This makes us think that Jenna is realizing that Georgetown may not be the best bet for housing. Perhaps she even read our post from last week about her potential tough commute between Georgetown and Columbia......

We hope you had a good weekend. We're a little worn out after a string of holiday gatherings and other parties. We ended Saturday night's activities at the American City Diner at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Morrison Street, where we snapped this photo of a James Dean mural sometime after 3 a.m. Sunday. If you've been as busy as we've been the past few days, here's what you may have missed on......

As Richard Leiby reported this morning in the Reliable Source, first twin Jenna Bush has applied for a teaching position at the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School (wow, that's a mouthful) on 16th Street on the border of Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant. The school and the White House are both mum on Jenna's plans but Leiby learned that Jenna plans to stay in Washington, leasing a house in Georgetown. But getting......

DCSOB points out a poll showing Ralph Nader only five points behind President Bush in the District of Columbia. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is way ahead. DCist would like to point out that although Kerry is way ahead, Chef Geoff Tracy, husband of NBC's Norah O'Donnell, is gaining on President Bush. When we checked on Monday, the Georgetown graduate was only down by 10-15 votes at the 13th Street Chef Geoff's. We don't know if......

The Bush twins caused Stetson's headaches a few years back when they were caught drinking underage. Under pressure, the bar's staff under went a regime change and the character of the Texas bar on U Street changed, some say for the worse. Could Smith Point, Georgetown's low-key-turned-Jenna sightseeing cellar bar, be next to go under a Bush twin-related management revamp? Georgetown's advisory neighborhood commission is protesting Smith Point's liquor license renewal, according to the......