This column is not about White House powerhouse Karl Rove or New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who went to jail rather than reveal a confidential source, or Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper, ...

It's tough being dissidents seeking publicity. You despise The Man but you want The Man to pay attention. You want the press to cover you, but you don't necessarily want to give your name. You want to ...

With the news last week that uber-tagger Borf — born John Tsombikos of McLean, Virginia — was to serve one month in jail, it was only a matter of time before his supporters crawled back out of the ...

We wouldn’t want anyone to think that we revisit these topics in a deliberate, cynical way, but there’s no denying that certain subjects are evergreen here at DCist. Church parking, smoking bans and ...

BOSTON—Like most Washington-area residents, Bill Fairbairn knows John Tsombikos. Or at least he sounds like he does when, at the mention of the tagger’s street mark, he responds with an almost charmed ...

An image of the Banksy mural with the original image circulated by official Turkish social media accounts (all images courtesy the author for Hyperallergic) Banksy has taken over the Bowery mural in ...