Good morning, Washington. For many of you, the holiday gluttony has persisted beyond Thursday, but if you can manage to move this afternoon — and you didn’t spend all your precious cash on Black Friday — you can capitalize on Shop Local First Day, when independently owned stores across the District offer discounted merchandise.

About as close to celebrity-status as the District gets is when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt decide to buy a house here and Woody Harrelson spends a few days filming a few shots for an upcoming movie. That might soon change. Well, kind of. NBC 4 is reporting that the owners of the world famous Madame Tussauds wax museum are in talks with the District over the possibility of opening a museum in downtown D.C….

Whether you are a homeland security pundit, closet xenophobe, or simply a concerned Washingtonian, odds are you were at least a little alarmed by the recently announced acquisition of P&O Ports by Dubai Ports World, a shipping firm owned and operated by the government of the United Arab Emirates. The acquisition has local ramifications — P&O Ports operate Baltimore’s port. Lest we become too comfortable with our port-less city economy, we mustn’t forget that we…