- Holy Tuesday evening cheetah cub photograph dump! You know, there’s a lot of good stuff in the links below, but if you don’t get to it for a little while, we totally understand.
- Councilmembers Jack Evans (Ward 2) and Michael Brown (At-Large) will lead the committee in charge of the process of redistricting the city’s wards. Alterations this year are not expected to be quite as dramatic as they were in 2001, though Wards 6 and 8 could see some big changes.
- Despite the budget crunch, the District is slated to pay for two-thirds of construction costs on an inner-city youth baseball academy, located at Fort Dupont Park and operated by the Nationals. Here’s the details from the Examiner.
- Newsweek bemoans the fact that only one of 46 freshmen Congresspeople they contacted are moving their families to Washington.
- Washingtonian provides this list of the most popular books and DVDs at Washington-area libraries. Geez, Arlington sure loves them some Stieg Larsson.
- The so-called “queen of District drag,” Shi-Queeta-Lee, is planning a drag-based reality show to be titled Drag City DC: Hair and Paint Make a Man What He Ain’t. Amanda Hess has more.
- Mayor Vince Gray taps former Amtrak president Tom Downs as one of four D.C. appointments to the WMATA board of directors.
- Washington named ninth-best city for young entrepeneurs in 2010.
- Anyone want to go work for Michelle Rhee?
- Feel good story of the day: Ford’s Theatre raised $77,000 for So Others May Eat during their production of “A Christmas Carol.”
