This penthouse is among the biggest apartments in Washington, and it can be yours for the modest offering of $1.95 million.

A family in the quiet, wooded Wesley Heights neighborhood in Northwest D.C. is upsetting its neighbors with the construction of a backyard ice rink, but there’s very little they can do to block it.

Yesterday’s Animal Watch in the Post had an interesting item about an orange corn snake being found in a hallway at an apartment building in the 4200 block of Cathedral Avenue. If we’re guessing correctly, we think that the apartment building in question is The Towers, that cocoon-like building in Wesley Heights that is stuck in an era circa 1966. If you don’t know much about this magical place, we encourage you to read part…

We hate to nit-pick the Examiner since it is for sure still trying to find its niche and work through the inevitable problems that come with starting a newspaper from scratch. But we feel it necessary to comment on something we saw on page 3 of the District edition. Yes, we already mentioned the “Speed cameras are working” article in today’s Morning Roundup, but there is something we came across when picked up the…

Ever since the Glover Park Whole Foods opened, it seems to have taken away a lot of the celebrity luster that the Social Safeway in Georgetown used to have a monopoly on. This DCist has seen a number of famous-for-D.C. types in the aisles of the Glover Park Whole Foods, including Joe Lockhart (when his Glover Park Group was actually in Glover Park.) Now we hear that last Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with…

DCist is introducing a new ocassional feature today called “Observing Washington,” a place where DCist contributors and others who have interesting observations on life in Washington have a little more room to write and explore all things D.C.-related. This is something a little more substantive than a typical blog post, something a little more constructed. Of course DCist doesn’t hold a monpoly on having an interesting vantage point on life in the city. So if…