The T Street Station Post Office is moving up the block, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced in a press release yesterday. The mail depot, she said, will be relocating to the Franklin D. Reeves Center at 14th and U streets.

In an email sent to constituents last night, Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham reported that the U.S. Post Office located at 1915 14th Street NW will be closing on December 31.

DC Fire and EMS reported that a fire broke out on a two story building at 9th and T Streets NW around 7 a.m. this morning. The fire originated on the roof, and the building was evacuated.

The Post’s Marc Fisher alerted us to some exciting news on Wednesday: the possibility of Chuck Brown and Duke Ellington meeting in D.C. No, smelling salts aren’t involved. Rather, Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham is proposing naming sections of T Street NW and 7th Street NW after the two local music legends in Shaw. The renaming would coincide with the expected reopening of the historic Howard Theatre in 2008, a place where both…

Landlords and building owners engaging in unethical, possibly illegal activities to evict tenants? Never! Well, that may been the case in four buildings in the District, and one member of the D.C. City Council is itching to found out the who, the why, the when, and the how come. Council-member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) has announced that his Comittee on Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will hold a hearing on December 21 to find out…

— If you haven’t had enough fun playing around with the Los Angeles Times’ wiki-enabled interactive editorial, take a look at John Daniszewski’s dispactch from Tehran about charges of official manipulation in the recent elections … and saying that “[n]ew doubts and divisions have come into view” regarding the Iraq war, Paul Richter tracks conservative North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones Jr. and his shifting stance on Iraq and how that’s playing back home ……

The members of Up Close and Political, a D.C.-based photography collective, thought it would be a good idea if the pandas spread around town last summer had political opinions. The result of their speculation was a series of photos, available on their website, of the pandas holding political posters critical of the Bush administration. The posters they created will be on display for one week at Café Mawonaj (Operated by the Vox Union) at 624…

Although DCist isn’t necessarily surprised that Visions Cinema Bistro has been at risk of going out of business (with Landmark opening its E Street multiplex), but we are surprised about a possible replacement tenant. A DCist tipster says that he “wouldn’t be surprised if Grover Norquist tries to turn Visions into a Reagan museum.” Say what? We’re a bit confused. Think about it. Since Reagan was shot around the corner at the Washington Hilton, it…

DCist has always thought that D.C. lacks neighborhoods with a clear ethnic identity. There is no Little Italy, no Koreatown, no Pulaski Square. There is a Chinatown, but in reality, it is a Chinablock flanked by a Hooters, an Irish pub, a Chipotle and a Coyote Ugly. And while Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights used to be a district of mainly Salvadorans, an influx of Route 42 hipsters caused Don Juan’s (corner of Lamont and…