One person was taken to the hospital for observation or minor injuries. Expect residual delays.

Our music staffs lays out their favorite local releases of the year.

Officials told the Post a cigarette butt in a bucket may be the source of the four-alarm blaze.

President Obama has proposed increasing the federal cigarette tax, a move that could push per-pack prices in D.C. above $8.

Arlington’s Cigarette is one of the best kept secrets in the scene. Check out a track from their soon-to-be-released new record before they hit the Black Cat backstage with She Keeps Bees tonight.

Sample some of our favorite quotes from D.C.’s local artists and label heads. This is the year in Three Stars.

Cigarette does something rare with their music in that they do less with more. There are six members of the band, but they don’t sound like an overblown rock orchestra. Their songs have a minimalist, almost catatonic effect, as if the listener has stumbled into a dream or some other ethereal plane.

The second Transformers movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is apparently filming in Washington right now, because people keep sending us celebrity gossip reports that actor Shia LaBeouf allegedly set off a smoke alarm inside a bathroom at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum over the weekend when he tried to sneak a cigarette inside the building. The story seems to have come entirely from the National Enquirer, however, so we should probably take…