Welcome to the new year. Are you looking for some reading while you nurse that hangover? Get your Caps game face on for the Winter Classic: GQ: Ovechkin With Love His may be the perfect face of the NHL: broad, broken-toothed, misshapen by countless on-ice collisions—an affable Slavic caveman with …

TBD: Betsy Rothstein’s year in Twitter battles On June 26, Betsy Rothstein published a stirring defense of media journalism. Rothstein, the editor of Fishbowl DC, a media news and gossip site, had published some of a Washington Post blogger’s e-mails to a private Listserv, and the ensuing revelation that he’d …

From Mike Allen’s Playbook: LAST-MINUTE GIFT for anyone who saw “Waiting for ‘Superman’”: Cornerstone School (“Hope and Academic Excellent in the Nation’s Capital”) is an oasis of love and rigor in inner-city D.C., serving 220 students, almost all African-American, in pre-K3 through ninth grade. The executive director and principal is …

This app is hitting the market in Hollywood today, but would be very handy in DC. [parking app] The ‘Parker’ application gives drivers real-time information about which streets have open spots, as well as blocks that are closest to them with the most vacant spaces and other information. There’s nothing …

What do you see in the snow?

The NBC Washington headline says it all: Metro Opens Bags Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn “says he is not worried about a trend in terror threats against the transit system,” WTOP reports. And so WMATA will begin random bag searches at Metro stations soon. Are you as confused as …

It seems like just yesterday. Nobody can drive. People are leaving work early. Safeway is out of food. Send us fun snow pics and we’ll put them up on the site. Hit us up at [email protected]. Remember, stay calm!

This incident outside Dirksen was captured by Matthew Gagnon. Capitol Police tackle a potential Senate shooter in the snow.

Where should we start forming the line? About a month ago, news broke that Chipotle, the Denver-based kings of Mexican fast-casual fare, were working on a similarly structured Asian concept. We weren’t paying it much heed until New York Magazine’s Grub Street blog, in a post on James Beard Rising …

This cold weather, yeah, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. [brrr] A weak area of low pressure will be passing through Virginia south of Washington during the day on Thursday, Kierein said. That will likely spread some light snow through the region in the morning, with occasional light snow during …

We love flash mobs as much as the next person, but not when they interrupt our Monday evening commute. Flashmobs have gone from edgy (no pants, silent dancing, zombies) to just plain ol’ cute. Now a Facebook group (along with Twitter hashtag #MetroCarols) is organizing folks to go flashmob caroling, …

The price of a D.C. holiday tradition is apparently up to the highest bidder, according to NBC Washington. NBC Washington found dozens of ads in the last several days alone that listed tree lighting tickets for up to $100 each. The National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony has been held near …

And we thought parking was bad before. New York Times: Junk Food Is a Source of Comfort on Capitol Hill Leading the charge is the Matchbox Food Group, DC-3’s parent company, which began with a pizza joint in nearby Chinatown and has recently opened a sister “pizza bistro” on Eighth …

A nice photo taken on American University’s campus last Friday. Photo courtesy of Sarah Back.

Members of Congress are just like you.  Normal. Hard working.  Millionaires. [more money, more …] The economic outlook may still look lousy, but Capitol Hill, at least, doesn’t seem to be feeling much pain: A new study by the Center for Responsive Politics finds that half of all members of …