Our snowstorm was such a big deal the New York times made a time lapsed video of the precipitation centered on Farragut Square, set to some dreamy snow music.

Noe Todorovich captured the mood of the evening’s snow with a gorgeous photo outside E Street Cinema.

Valentine’s day [restaurant gimmicks] Get some free De La Soul [today at 11AM] Body found under the snow [creeptacular] If you’re not sick of winter yet [go outdoor ice skating!] Creative DuPont circle [snowmen and women and dogs] Amazing Olympic drinking game [from H Street Country Club] Photo by Justin Schuck

Jeremy Art looked down Pennsylvania Ave. from 15th St. yesterday morning and found this beautiful dawn view. Print this photo and frame it, because tomorrow it’s gonna get snow ugly out there.

Chris Richards astutely points out that Fred Armisen and other musicians who frequented 14th st.’s Black Cat will be in the live band playing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, every night, forever. The announcement may have felt particularly surreal to Washingtonians who frequented the Black Cat anytime during the …

In this video, BBC reporter Graham Bell holds a camera and skis an Olympic downhill piste in Sochi. It’s thrilling. And makes us fear for our lives, even as we huddle in front of the computer with coffee.

Did you download your House of Cards [Cards Against Humanity deck yet?] Peet’s Coffee is coming to town [and already has representation] Sony is selling waterproof Walkmans [in bottles of water] Ricki Lake will not be in Congress [sadly] District Taco opening a new location [all is right with the …

Our world was upside down this week: it got cold, it turned warm, Thursday felt like Friday, stories of journalists in Sochi stressed us out.  We pulled a few amazing weekend picks to flip it all around. Comedy, date night, movie marathon, record store opening, scavenger hunts, the works.

Your escalators could be broken WHILE in Russia. From NPR: There have been many experiences here in Sochi that have been foreign or unfamiliar. But this broken escalator made me feel right at home. It’s just like Metro back in Washington, DC, which suffers from near-constant escalator failures and repairs. …

A brave cartographer mapped out the entire internet. Yes, Tumblr is in the Hipster sea, Anonymous has their own island, there’s a Stalking Straight (guess what that’s nearby) and Google has a land of indexes. You can’t out-geek this guy. Pretty amusing and worth close observation with above link. h/t …

Washington, DC gets 48 pleasant weather days between 55° F and 75° F a year, according to this Kelly Norton infographic. Once you give that a once over, if you’re not moving to southern California, remember that the next time you decide… You’re not taking the day off You’re not leaving …

Fruit ketchups [are happening] Politico picks the 10 craziest [government boondoggles] VA Gov [on the charm offensive] Popville PSA: [do not clip your nails on the metro] CityPaper PSA: [stop skipping out on your restaurant reservations] Photo by Stephen Ball

Note: We did not theme this Hyper Hill, but it is all about vices. It’s may be real tough for you to [buy grain alcohol in MD] CVS goes humanitarian [and stops selling cigarettes] In Virginia you can [still get the chair (the electric one)] DC moving to decriminalize marijuana …

YOU READ THAT RIGHT. A CRICKET. IN THE RHOB CAFETERIA SOUP. View evidence at your own risk. As one person put it, “Extra protein at no additional charge.” (TWO tipsters sent this in. And one reacted with this: Yuck.)    

Cook like Pizza Paradiso [cookbook] Takoma Park VFW open to non-vets [now serving $1.75 drafts] Guy on the Metro grossing passengers out [it’s not what you’re expecting] Franklin School will become art gallery [so fancy] 40,000 oysters live another week [too frozen to harvest] Jessica Meyers and Jeff Kearns [fell …