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A troubled man needed help. He got shot instead.
David Kerstetter was killed by D.C. police in his own bathroom. How did that happen?
Cover Story By Jason Cherkis

When the Rebar Hits the Road
The fate of Super Salvage: Just one example of the city scrapping its industrial core
Cover Story By Amanda Abrams

Middle Kingdom Meets Elementary School
Can a D.C. charter tackle the world's toughest language?
Cover Story By Marina Koestler Ruben

The Battle for the Mid-Atlantic!
Regional lowlights from Obama v. McCain
Cover Story By Franklin Schneider
The Battle for the Mid-Atlantic!
Searching for Anyone: The McCain Campaign
Cover Story By Justin Moyer
Movealong.org
Uprooting the homeless from the West End Library
By Arin Greenwood
Outstripped
Remember when Columbia Heights needed a government-subsidized strip mall?
Cover Story By Jason Cherkis

Fantasy Football
New arena league asks: What recession?
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna

LL's Midterm Examination
Adrian Fenty, two years on
Loose Lips By Mike DeBonis

Ashed and Answered
Cecil tries to calculate when we'll be vaporized.
The Straight Dope By Cecil Adams

Have Dom, Will Travel
Dan tells a lady in her 60s to get with the BDSM program.
Savage Love By Dan Savage
The Mellow Prose of Texas
Don't mess with the brisket, and other hits from the blog
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman
Say It With Me Now: DTMFA
Dan picks the low-hanging fruit
Savage Love By Dan Savage
Satellite Dishing
Cecil gets the straight dope on space crackups.
The Straight Dope By Cecil Adams

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"Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography"
To Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
The images in “Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography” are more than just shot—they are dressed-up, drawn-on, posed, and constructed. The photographs document 40 years of...
Margaret Boozer
Saturday, Jan. 2, at Project 4
Margaret Boozer’s clay doesn’t feel the friction of a pottery wheel or the heat of a kiln. Instead, it dries out, cracks, and warps as clay in the ground does, discolored and bumpy with sediment,...
Title Tracks
Wednesday, Jan. 7, at the Black Cat
The verse and the chorus may be the crucial components of a tune—the brain and heart respectively—but they tend to wilt without the oft-forgotten little organs that prop them up. Title Tracks’ Jon...

Hoods & Services: Your Guide to D.C.'s Communities

Gran Torino and The Wrestler: Life in the Past Lane
Clint Eastwood and Mickey Rourke are tough dudes with heart.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
Age-Defying Formula
Reviewed: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski
Cheer and Now
The year's best films offered the kind of uplift that 2008 badly needed.
Cover Story By Tricia Olszewski

The Mellow Prose of Texas
Don't mess with the brisket, and other hits from the blog
Young & Hungry By Tim Carman
The Beerspotter
Beer for breakfast, anyone?
Beerspotter By Orr Shtuhl

One Track Mind
This Week: Played Tomorrow's "Aphrodite"
Music By Aaron Leitko
2008 Music and Arts In Review
Let's Go to the Tape
How to reel in listeners in the digital age.
Cover Story By Casey Rae-Hunter

Legally Blonde and Les Misérables: Guillotine-Age Wasteland
Les Miz gets economized; Legally Blonde gets ditzier.
Theater Review By Bob Mondello
The Stage of Anxiety
The recession has hit the local theater scene hard. But expect a resurgence--or at least lots of revivals.
Cover Story By Glen Weldon, Trey Graham, and Bob Mondello
Next to Normal: Kiss Me, Medicate
At Arena, a stunning musical about depression—and pills. Lots of pills.
Theater Review By Bob Mondello

Pain by Numbers
In 2008, D.C.'s museums had a hard time sculpting greatness in a down market.
Cover Story By Jeffry Cudlin
Optimist Opportunities
Shepard Fairey wasn't the only person selling hope in D.C. galleries this year.
Cover Story By Maura Judkis
Sheet Smart
Over the River says as much about Christo’s and Jeanne-Claude’s financial interests as their artistic ones.
Gallery By Jeffry Cudlin