- Attention politics nerds: we gave Martin a few weeks off for the holidays, but he and his magic Twitter machine are back! He’ll be tweeting during tonight’s D.C. Democratic State Committee vote to fill the Council’s vacant at-large seat, so go follow him if that’s your cup of tea.
- A suspicious package found near the baggage claim area at Dulles has closed a large portion of the airport, though it is not believed to be connected to the packages found in Maryland that shut down the region’s governmental mailrooms this afternoon.
- Former Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell opens up to Jamie Mottram about his tenure with the team: “I was always trying to put my heart into everything [the Redskins] did. The owner or whatever it was, the owner was always pointing the finger at me. It was always like people were out to get me.”
- There sure are a lot of yoga instructors who want to work with DYRS. (Lost? Here, this should help.)
- Christopher Dyer, former Director of the city’s Office of GLBT Affairs under Adrian Fenty, said he only directly communicated with the mayor twice over the span of his four years on the job.
- Because if there’s anything that Georgetown needs more of, it’s cupcake dispensaries.
- DCist co-founder Mike Grass visits the Westchester Restaurant, a still-standing relic of a long-lost age when Washington’s swankiest apartment buildings hosted supper clubs.
- Washingtonians can now watch the Smithsonian Channel — if they’ve got a super-fancy cable package through Comcast.
- Lydia DePillis has the definitive preview of the year’s upcoming development.
- After hunting it for nine weeks, Calvert County police finally got their emu.
Photo by digitalcultivator.
