This morning, NBC’s Today show featured a segment on the National Zoo’s lovable pair of cheetah cubs, providing them with some serious bragging rights in their ongoing cuteness battle with the Zoo’s lion cubs. The Zoo has also set up a real-time cheetah cub cam, so you can keep an eye on the little critters even when you’re stuck behind your desk.

This post from DCist contributor Jamie R. Liu You can’t help but want to root for Chef Jamie Stachowski and Restaurant Kolumbia. How can you not love a man who, when asked on the Today Show, “What if you don’t have a larding needle?”, responded with a jovial, machismo-filled, “Well you better get one!” You love the great team he forms with his wife and general manager, Carolyn, who has applied her artist’s eye to…

This post was written by DCist contributor Lindsay Gibson. Post to Employees: Meh. After the Fenty fever of this week, we were certain that our non-ironic viewing of The Today Show would at last not be interrupted by political smear campaigns. But lo, it was not to be. The Communications Workers of America are stepping up their attacks claiming The Washington Post has denied them raises for over 4 years and that they have been…

After months of speculation, it’s official: broadcast journalist Katie Couric will be leaving NBC’s Today Show at the end of May to anchor the CBS Evening News. As noted yesterday in the Washington Post, three women — Barbara Walters at ABC, Connie Chung at CBS and Elizabeth Vargas, at ABC’s “World News Tonight” — have co-anchored alongside men. This makes Couric the first solo female anchor of a weekday network newscast. Fishbowl DC has the…

Local singer-songerwriter Andy Zipf calls himself “a mood pop artist who sings songs for the lonely,” but with his popularity on the rise, we can’t imagine he’ll stay solitary for too long. Zipf took the time to chat with DCist about his music, taping a segment with the Today Show, and what the hell “pod-jacking” is. VITALS: Full Name: Andrew Zipf Age: 24 Hometown: Indianapolis How long have you lived in Washington: 4 or 5…