Even Shadow Senator Paul Strauss had a car in the parade. And a classic one, to boot.

Congratulations are in order for Washington City Paper food critic Tim Carman, who will be moving over to the Washington Post on December 6. Carman’s move was announced this afternoon on the Post’s All We Can Eat blog, which Carman will now helm, in addition to penning stories for the front page and Food section of the paper. (DCist co-founder and current WCP assistant managing editor Mike Grass will be handling City Paper’s Young and Hungry blog on an interim basis.) Carman joins Mike DeBonis as City Paper scribes who have recently jumped over to the Post; it’s refreshing to see WCP journalists sticking around town, and we look forward to seeing if Carman can turn WaPo’s food blog into a destination like DeBonis has with his Post blog on local politics.