Written by new DCist food and wine contributor Michael Mugmon. In the spirit of SportsCenter, DCist asks: DID YOU KNOW that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has moonlighted as a jurist on the 12-member judging panel for the annual International Wines for Oysters Competition –- the gold medal winners of which are trotted out at Old Ebbitt Grill’s Oyster Riot? In past years, Justice Scalia –- who quietly campaigned to replace William Rehnquist…

Get out your checkbooks kiddos, Old Ebbitt Grill’s Oyster Riot X is slated for Friday, Nov. 18 and Saturday, Nov. 19. For a paltry $88 attendees can feast on more than 20 oyster varieties, drink dozens of wines, and get down with the blues band Chicken Head. The annual event pits wineries from around the globe against each other in an effort to determine each mollusk’s best mate. The Oyster Riot event began in 1996…

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…