Much has been made over the last few months about the District's decision to auction off spaces to car-sharing companies, rather than allow the market's first mover—Zipcar—have them all for free. The argument for doing so is that charging market prices for the use of curbside parking spaces will raise cash for the city, and [...]

Most of the time, I ride my bike to City Paper's Adams Morgan office from my house in Petworth. Last night, though, I left my bike here to go see a former colleague read at Politics and Prose. In the past, that would have meant I had to take Metro or walk to work this [...]

Soap Opera: Swann Cleaners has folded.
My boyfriend and I live on the top floor of a row house on 16th Street, in one of those gorgeous old mansions that was converted into separate units. We don’t have a laundry machine or dryer, but this wasn’t a problem when we first moved in six months [...]