We're getting ready for our staff holiday party tonight, so GHA and AT are combined into one super post! Have fun, y'all. We certainly will be. >> Two more people, both longtime friends of Harriette Walters, were arrested in connection with the Office of Tax and Revenue scandal today. [WaPo] >> The Rock and Roll Hotel is hosting a Trailer Trash dance night. 8 p.m. to close, free. >> Sadly we weren't able to......

In a redeveloping city, where space is scarce and small squabbles over any piece of property has the potential to turn into a large heated community debate, the city's lack of available national monumental space could dominate the District's urban development discourse for much of the 21st century. On Monday, Post columnist Fred Hiatt, making the case for a "third-century Mall," gives us some historical perspective. As the nation has grown, so has the National......

When an event is really sad -- and when it isn't fixed to any particular spot on the U.S. mainland (think Challenger) -- its memorial is often built in the District, aka the nation's official boneyard. That certainly seems to be the case with the Titanic Memorial along the Washington Channel in Southwest, a forgotten monument to a forgotten age, dedicated to a catastrophe itself anything but forgotten. Unlike other local markers of tragedy,......