The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,…

There’s been a flurry of speculation and rumors spinning about in New York and D.C. over the future of Gawker’s Wonkette politics gossip blog. With Ana Marie Cox, the site’s editor off writing a novel, Gawker has propped the blog up with a series of guest editors. According to a source close to the Gawker family, it has been a forgone conclusion that Cox would be leaving Wonkette permanently after she finishes her book this…

Who knew that bloggers could take a sabbatical? DCist’s favorite potty mouthed political blogger Ana Marie Cox will be MIA for the entire month of February. Today marks the first day that former Gawker editor Choire Sicha takes over blogging duties at Wonkette. The site, a part of the New York based Gawker Media Empire, is apparently letting Cox loose for a month to write a book. Ah yes, another blogger turned author. You can’t…