Tuesday, May 26 through Sunday, May 31: There’s no musical that screams young white suburban angst like RENT. It managed to make AIDS the hit disease that all the teen-aged girls wanted, as did it make hating your parents and wanting to live in abject poverty the coolest things ever!! MORE »

It is common knowledge around D.C. that Hobo King Norm Coleman sleeps in a drawer and gives hand jobs for lunch money. But NOW it turns out that he also failed for a whole year to pay the utilities on the 6-cubic-foot basement dungeon he rents from some pal of his. He is truly the most corrupt legislator invented since, who is it, that guy with the astonishing head-merkin. MORE »

• New Arlington based literary journal. First issue features accomplished poet Donald Rumsfeld’s latest, “You’ve got a situation where it’s not possible to lose.” [Madam Mayo]

• Rentometer will tell you if you’re a sucker, and by how much. [Metroblogging DC]
• “RIP, Christopher Glenn. I might not have remembered you until yesterday, but rest assured you were a fond memory for those of us who shared our carefree childhood Saturday mornings with you.” [High Heels and Football]
• She met Joan Jett last night. [Conversations with Mud]
• And so you’ll have something to talk to your family about, Britney Spears lost 26 pounds in a month. [Read Express]