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For low-income residents, the District is becoming less accessible Nov 28th 2012, 00:27 As an increasingly elite D.C.begins walling itself off from the masses, the rough outline of an architecturally restored yet soulless city emerges. Redlined school boundaries around wealthy neighborhoods keep out less privileged students. Closed streets and parking restrictions make for a "walkable city." For the low-income resident who must travel longer distances to get to work and stores, a better description would be "trudge town." Read full article >> Robbery before Woodley Park Metro stabbing was a setup by teens, authorities say Nov 28th 2012, 00:23 The robbery that led to an 18-year-old's fatal stabbing on a Metro platform was part of a setup concocted by a group of teens armed with knives and a handgun, authorities say. According to court documents made available Tuesday, authorities investigating the Nov. 17 death of Olijawon Griffin found a .45-caliber handgun and two knives behind a locker in the Woodley Park Metro station. Read full article >> Rich Noland resigns as Bethesda Chevy-Chase football coach Nov 28th 2012, 00:19 Bethesda Chevy-Chase football coach Rich Noland resigned Tuesday, just three weeks after leading the Barons to their second consecutive appearance in the Maryland 4A playoffs. Noland said Tuesday evening that he wanted to spend more time with his two children, aged 9 and 12, during the season. He notified athletic director Jim Tapley on Tuesday morning of his decision and met with players later that afternoon. Read full article >> Edan MacQuaid out at Local 16, new pizzeria on 14th Street NW falls short of funding Nov 28th 2012, 00:19 Edan MacQuaid won't be running a new pizzeria on 14th Street NW after all. In a forthright post on Don Rockwell's Jobs and Employment message board, the well-traveled pizzaiolo announced that he's looking for new opportunities. Read full article >> D.C. United and Kevin Payne decide to go in different directions after 18 years Nov 28th 2012, 00:17 Kevin Payne was in charge of D.C. United before Washington's MLS team was even called D.C. United, launching the organization from scratch two years before the opening whistle in 1996 and then overseeing the rise of the league's first dynasty. Read full article >> At 0-12, the Washington Wizards are depressingly bad Nov 27th 2012, 23:56 This is depressing. No, this is beyond depressing. On Craigslist, a Wizards season-ticket holder is essentially giving away his tickets for free. "I am selling my two Wizards tickets tonight at $20 each," the ad read. "If the Wizards do not beat the Spurs, I will refund your money." Read full article >> Vietnam War center on Mall is ready for groundbreaking Nov 27th 2012, 23:50 Thirty years after his creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Jan C. Scruggs is scheduled Wednesday to host the ceremonial groundbreaking of another tribute to the nation's service men and women: the Education Center at the Wall. Read full article >> ACC sues Maryland, seeking payment of its exit fee Nov 27th 2012, 23:45 The Atlantic Coast Conference filed suit against the University of Maryland on Tuesday, asking that the school be forced to pay an exit fee of more than $52 million — a penalty Maryland officials have questioned since announcing last week the school's plans to join the Big Ten. Read full article >> D.C. man gets four months for killing sleeping puppy Nov 27th 2012, 23:34 A District man was sentenced Tuesday to 120 days in jail — 30 days longer than prosecutors had requested — for dropping a boulder on the head of a sleeping puppy. Sean Delontay Branch, 24, had pleaded guilty to one count of felony cruelty to animals in September in connection with the June killing of the 6-month-old dog known as "King Tut" behind a Northeast Washington convenience store. Read full article >> Virginia basketball vs. Wisconsin: Tony Bennett takes on one of his mentors in Bo Ryan Nov 27th 2012, 23:20 When Bo Ryan replaced Dick Bennett as the Wisconsin men's basketball coach in 2001, he decided to keep Bennett's son, Tony, on the coaching staff, and not only because the younger Bennett was a standout on the Badgers' scout team. Read full article >> Meeting to address rock-throwing attacks directed at buses in Southeast Nov 27th 2012, 23:16 The District's representative on Metro's Board of Directors will lead a public meeting Monday on a contentious proposal to cut back bus service in a Southeast Washington area where Metro says buses are routinely pelted with rocks and bricks. Read full article >> Prince William Board closes its auditor's office Nov 27th 2012, 23:13 UPDATE, 6:30 p.m.: The Prince William Board of Supervisors did vote to close its internal auditor's office. Chairman Stewart said the office was his "brainchild" but wasn't working efficiently, and using a large outside firm with "an army of auditors" would be better. Supervisor Frank Principi was the only no vote, saying it returned the county to the situation of the 2000s where embezzlement went unchecked. Read full article >> PM Update: Rain clears, chill remains Nov 27th 2012, 21:59 The nasty cold rain has departed, but clouds will only slowly trickle away from the region tonight as reinforcing cold air comes in from the north. Sunshine returns Wednesday, but it's very chilly with temperatures some 5-10 degrees colder than average and gusty winds. Smörgåsbordski! Say it a few times, then book at table at Domku on Dec. 20 Nov 27th 2012, 21:10 The best word for a Christmas feast — smörgåsbord, seriously, just say it a few times — is coming to Petworth. Domku will be hosting its first traditional Swedish Christmas spread, a type of smörgåsbord called a julbord, on Dec. 20. Read full article >> Time-lapse video depicts a day in the life of Metro Nov 27th 2012, 21:09 It's unlikely that many riders would find beauty in Metro's rail and bus maps. But a new time-lapse video depicting a day in D.C. transit strips away all of the stations, stops, crowds and congestion to find something ethereal and hypnotic. Read full article >> Marvin Miller spoke truth to power, changed sports forever Nov 27th 2012, 20:50 The most important man in sports in the past 40 years died at age 95 on Tuesday. Marvin Miller, whose union won free agency for baseball players in 1975 and thus eventually gained the same fundamental bargaining rights for all pro athletes, lived to see his vilified ideas utterly vindicated. What started as a cause became commonplace. What was once controversial became incontrovertible. Read full article >> DeJon Gomes aiming for more consistency, intensity Nov 27th 2012, 20:48 As he watched strong safety Brandon Meriweather fly around during the first half of the Washington Redskins' Nov. 18 meeting with the Philadelphia Eagles, second-year pro DeJon Gomes had an 'ah-ha' moment. Read full article >> All-Northern Region football team Nov 27th 2012, 20:36 First-team offense QB Kyle Downer, Oakton, Sr. RB Phil Mun, Langley, Sr. RB M.J. Stewart, Yorktown, Jr. RB Joe Wilson, Robinson, Jr. Read full article >> Long range look: Warm weather pattern to start December, then turning volatile Nov 27th 2012, 20:17 The first four days of December will at times feel more like fall than winter with above normal temperatures expected to hold sway across the region. Hanoi House opens tonight, replacing Blackbyrd Warehouse Nov 27th 2012, 19:57 After years of making U Street a destination for cocktails, DJs and late-night dancing, Eric and Ian Hilton are moving in on the late-night dining market, too. Tonight, they officially unveil Hanoi House, a stylish Vietnamese restaurant in the former Blackbyrd Warehouse space. This follows on the heels of Satellite Room, the dive-ish diner serving post-concert burgers and boozy milkshakes behind the 9:30 Club. Read full article >> Obenshain announces bid for attorney general Nov 27th 2012, 19:50 State Sen. Mark D. Obenshain on Tuesday formally announced his bid for Virginia attorney general, an office his late father, Richard Obenshain, sought unsuccessfully in 1969. At a Capitol Square news conference, Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg) quoted from a scrap of paper found in his father's desk in 1978, not long after the elder Obenshain died in a plane crash while campaigning as the GOP's U.S. Senate nominee. Read full article >> Jail for District man in sleeping puppy's killing Nov 27th 2012, 19:25 A District man was sentenced Tuesday to 120 days in jail — 30 days longer than prosecutors had requested — for dropping a boulder on the head of a sleeping puppy. Sean Delontay Branch, 24, had pleaded guilty to one count of felony cruelty to animals in September in connection with the June killing of the six-month-old dog known as "King Tut" behind a Northeast Washington convenience store. Read full article >> The ticket-fixing D.C. Council member was Harry Thomas Jr. Nov 27th 2012, 18:39 Last week, I highlighted an Inspector General report that fingered a former D.C. Council member who had his chief of staff contact the Department of Motor Vehicles in a bid to void 10 of his personal tickets. The precise identity of the ex-legislator remained a mystery until today, when theDepartment of Motor Vehicles confirmed thatthe mystery council member was none other than now-jailed Ward 5 Democrat Harry Thomas Jr. Read full article >> Graham Parker and the Rumour, from the Birchmere to the big screen's "This Is 40" Nov 27th 2012, 18:25 What do Paul Rudd and Graham Parker have in common? They're both acting in Judd Apatow's "This Is 40," the spin-off to 2007's "Knocked Up" due out Dec.21. Rudd you've no doubt heard of; Parker, perhaps not, unless you're a fan of the mid-chart '70s English rock band Graham Parker and the Rumour, who perform a sold-out show at the Birchmere on Tuesday. Read full article >> Beaver full moon tonight, smallest of year; also penumbral lunar eclipse some areas Nov 27th 2012, 18:23 Get ready for the full moon's least prominent, most underwhelming showing of the year. Tonight's full moon coincides with the most distant point in its orbit known as the apogee, which will make it appear smaller and duller than the typical full moon.

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