- Don’t forget to check out all the details on our 2011 Exposed photography show, and our plans for a special fifth anniversary magazine.
- The planned giant big box development (featuring Costco) at Fort Lincoln in Ward 5 looks like, well, a giant big box development, as Housing Complex notes. You can find more details and renderings beginning on page 10 of this document.
- Prince of Petworth notes that the future Shake Shack at 1216 18th Street NW has an application for a liquor license in the front window.
- Estimated nightly cost to rent a room at the future boutique hotel in Adams Morgan: $411, says WBJ. But stepping in and around the vomit on 18th Street to get there? Well, that won’t cost you dime, friend.
- A bunch of people are organizing a caroling flash mob inside the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station during next Monday’s afternoon rush hour.
- The District Curmudgeon got a letter from an anonymous source reminding them that alleged murderer Kwan Kearney lives on their block.
- Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans has the best compensated Chief of Staff on the Council, according to the Georgetown Dish. Schanette Grant apparently rakes in $132,000 per year working for Evans.
- Sounds like the Washington Post won’t be installing a paywall anytime soon.
- New Washington Teachers’ Union president Nathan Saunders makes the argument that the Healthy Schools Act creates new problems for schools, because rats and mice — which have already infested schools — are attracted to healthier foods. (Yeah, I’m scratching my head too.)
- Sad: Elizabeth Edwards has died at 61.
- 826’s Columbia Heights branch gets some national ink, courtesy CNN.
Photo by annachapin.
