The Anacostia River is known as the capital’s forgotten river. To many residents, they may have never seen it as it is way over younder in Southeast. But it is there, people live and work on its banks and the city, with its full attention on transforming the Anacostia waterfront, must deal with one sobering fact: the Anacostia is really, really polluted. WTOP reminds us how dirty, toxic and nasty the river is. That runoff…

Good morning Washington. This photo by FurCafe, posted in DCist Photos via Flickr, was taken in Court House across the street from Summer’s (we think, correct us if we’re wrong). The weather today, according to Capital Weather, will see showers maybe moving in by evening. (And be sure to check out all the buzz about two certain meteorologists: AccuWeather’s Joe Bastardi is “not as smart as he thinks” and Joe Witte of WJLA is apparently…

MLK Day Parade Canceled: The AP, via the Post, reports that the 27th annual Martin Luther King Day parade in Ward 8 has been canceled because of the cold temperatures. Apparently, the health of Ward 8’s councilmember, former Mayor Marion Barry, had been speculated to have been partly to blame for the cancellation, enough so that the AP in the second paragraph flatly said that is wasn’t to blame. (But perhaps we’re just reading too…