Tipsy Tenth: Ever feel like the drivers around you are incompetent or blind? Turns out, they're probably just drunk. A AAA Mid-Atlantic survey finds one in ten drivers admits to driving drunk in the last year alone. Since only die-hard drunk drivers are likely to volunteer to a AAA researcher that they've done it, odds [...]

On this day in 1814, the British burned Washington, following the American rout at Bladensburg. While public buildings like the U.S. Capitol and the White House were burned, private buildings were largely spared.
You've likely heard the story about first lady Dolley Madison saving important documents and a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington—though that might [...]

The District Department of Transportation uploaded a large set of historical photos of Washington to its Flickr page today, and they're well worth a look. (The shot above is of the intersection of F and 13th streets NW in 1970.) More photos will be coming in the future, DDOT officials say.
As you might expect for [...]

As LL noted earlier in LL Daily, today is the 20th anniversary of the famed Vista Hotel bust, in which Mayor Marion Barry was lured into Room 727 by Rasheeda Moore and proceeded to smoke crack cocaine on camera.
Here's a vintage Darrow Montgomery snap of Barry the next day, leaving his arraignment at the District's [...]

Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham seems hellbent on naming a small Columbia Heights park after President Barack Obama.
That would require ditching the property's current name: 14th and Girard Park. Prosaic, certainly, but a name's a name, and tossing away a historic moniker to honor the latest hot thing is not a good precedent to set.
So [...]