When the new span of the Wilson Bridge was first opened, the Washington Post published an editorial asking, “What’s next?” Given this area’s staggering growth rate, we’re all in serious trouble if another 35 years goes by without another new bridge. Yet there is no active planning for another Potomac crossing.That may be true for the Potomac, but when it comes to D.C.’s other river, plans are moving rapidly forward for reconstruction of the 11th…

Yes, we’re already hungry for lunch. This photo of some Shanghai noodle soup and sushi, snapped by The Washington Post’s Keith Jenkins aka Burnt Pixel, was posted in DCist Photos via Flickr. The weather today? Highs in the low 70s with clouds, according to Capital Weather. Now on to this morning’s news … Tourists Trapped in Washington Monument: The Post reports that 25 people got stuck in the Washington Monument’s elevator yesterday, about 470…

One of the forgotten voices in the debate over the public financing of the proposed South Capitol Street baseball stadium is the gay community. Down that way are a number of gay-oriented businesses, just a stones throw from Capitol Hill on the other side of the Southeast Freeway in an area made of mainly of warehouses, empty lots. The Blade writes that “[t]hree gay bars and three gay adult entertainment businesses, including a video arcade…