Easiest turkey ever [inflatable] Even more tickets coming to H St NE [streetcar] Millennials making DC some cold hard cash [big spenders] City Paper explains why restaurants are raising their prices [diplomate] Guy plants a banana peel on Metro elevator, sues metro, now tried for [fraud] (a banana peel? really?)  …

Here’s your traveling Thanksgiving weather forecast [yuck] Warm drinks to make when you get in [yum] Give someone the gift of your face [3D printed] Watch out, your bus is about to get more crowded [disco] Photo by Dan Lawrence

We asked our friends around town what about DC they were thankful for this season. Here are their answers. I’m thankful for the bartenders at the Hamilton. –Katie Harbath, Facebook I am thankful for the fact that DC has a Costco now, a really big one. Except when Joe Biden shops there, since area traffic freaks …

There was almost a West Wing extension [rejected] DC minimum wage looks to go up [11.50] Reston dude runs up a $202,000 EZ-Pass bill [whoops] H Street getting a big ol’ sports bar [Sin Bin] 14th Street gets edgy [this is whack] Politico finds the worst political photo ops in …

#NATIONAL  “Ask not what your country can do for you…”; ‘Selfie’ is the word of the year; “Knockout Game” …errr, why?!; Don’t be that person on the phone on the airplane; The best post-happy hour voicemail EVER; We’re damn cold; #THEDISTRICT Shorter NYT: Gayest place in America; 6th Annual Congressional Football Game for charity; DC ain’t havin a lot …

Corey Clarke, a photographer with impeccable timing, took this shot of Minotaur I launched from NASA’s Wallops Island the other night.

Metro replacing carpet and improving lighting [aw yea] Congresswoman Meng got [mugged] MPD are artists too [MS Paint] Baby Panda cocktails [names] Photo by Dan Lawrence

When music director Erich Leinsdorf heard the news about Kennedy before a concert, he asked the orchestra’s librarian to sprint to get the sheet music parts for Beethoven’s funeral march. There was much gasping when Leinsdorf announced the news, but the crowd then listened to the orchestra play the funeral …

The White House Correspondents’ Association today joins dozens of news associations and media outlets in protesting White House policies that ban photojournalists from covering the president at certain events while releasing government photos and videos of the same events. “Journalists are routinely being denied the right to photograph or videotape …

Marion Barry wants real tall buildings [scrapers] Art Yards are coming [gallons of paint] E. Snowden, bus model [ads] Boundary Stone stirs it up [tweet] Helena Andrews is the new Source [job] Photo by Kevin Wolf

Our own little ball of adorable has taken the first steps in the rest of its adorable life. Day made.  

Could Lincoln win re-election if attack ads existed way back then? FactCheck.org did a series of 1864 reelection campaign commercials featuring typical campaign ad cliches. Videos from the “Anti-Lincoln Super Pac” are laughably bad, so we’re pretty sure Lincoln would win anyway.  Check out the rest of these 1864 campaign …

Selfie is the word of the year [Oxford] Zoo news: Zebra attack [panic] & Baby tigers’ debut [aww] Oyster harvest is getting better [so many] Mild winter on the way [caterpillar] Eater Awards: DC Winners [noms] Photo by Noe Todorovich

J.D. Moore delivers a rare shot of a beautiful and moody DC.

DC may get a little [taller] Panda cub weighs 10 lbs! [buttersticks] Daughter of Chantilly mom still in [Siberia] New place in shaw will have hearty eats [Rico Loco] Photo by JD Moore