Any blogger worth their salt should know that the -ist family’s executive editor, Jen Chung, loves pandas. So Jen, here you go. We know you can’t see pandas at the Bronx Zoo (but there are red pandas there — our red pandas here in D.C. died after eating rat poison buried in their enclosure), so here’s the next best thing. We’re sure pandas in their natural habitat don’t have to deal with the construction of the Asia Trail, which is pissing off the zoo’s neighbors in Woodley Park.
This DCist took a quick stroll down the Olmsted Walk earlier today, so if you want to see more photos of the National Zoo’s collection, be sure to check the jump. (If you want to see the cheetah cubs everyone is going go-go-ga-ga over, feel free to stand in line between noon and 2 p.m.
In the meantime, here’s what you may have missed on DCist this past week.
— The “bi-metropolitan” Ana Marie Cox celebrates a victorious taping of Charlie Rose at the apartment of her overlord and blogging mogul, Nick Denton.
— With the Secretary of State in Paris, France comes to the shores of the Potomac …
— There’s a key to D.C.? We’re assuming the city will not award it to Fannie Mae because of recent developments in Southwest D.C. real estate.
— Metrorail to Tysons II? Not unless irritable Dulles Toll Road commuters have any say in the matter.
— We spark some heated discourse on gentrification in Columbia Heights and Capper Carrollsburg, thanks to your comments!
— Plus the week in full.
