>> Travel + Leisure covers U Street and Logan Circle. Entire neighborhood now plans to move to Northeast. Also, we know it’s technically correct, but does anyone actually call the downstairs at Saint-Ex, “Gate 54”? We’ve never heard anyone say that out loud. Commence bashing Travel + Leisure’s coverage, a la The New York Times, in 5, 4, 3 …

>> Ward 4 Candidate Muriel Bowser kicks off her campaign by granting an interview to blogger Prince of Petworth, only to be kicked in the shins by his commenters. [Prince of Petworth]

>> Freshly-minted Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va) has been chosen to give the Democratic rebuttal to President Bush’s State of the Union speech next week. Now if only we could get someone inside Bush’s communications office to slip a racial slur into the teleprompter. [WaPo]

>> Dozens of D.C.-area high school students were injured in a bus accident during a ski trip in Quebec, and WTOP has the word that the tour company hired to chaperone them “has an UNSATISFACTORY record with the (Better Business) Bureau due to unanswered complaints.” [WTOP]

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