Cool Suburb: Bethesda is hoping to lure nightlife out of D.C. Even Lindsay Lohan is welcome, according to Montgomery County County Executive Ike Leggett. +1
Fire Bugged: Five D.C. Fire and EMS employees are on desk duty after joking on Facebook about police, apparently in reference to how long it took for an ambulance to reach [...]

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A blow to soften today's sequester: Z-Burger in Tenleytown is giving away burgers at its Tenleytown [...]

Bumper to Waddle: Southbound I-95 made a list of the country's worst Thanksgiving routes. -2
Back to Work: New figures put the District's unemployment rate at 8.5 percent, the lowest it's been since the start of 2009. +4

Doin' It In The Park: Rock Creek Parkway runs, as its name implies, through Rock Creek Park, which is, of course, a national park. So it might be reasonable to expect that the National Park Service, which manages it, would follow environmental regulations when performing work on the parkway. Reasonable, that is, but apparently not [...]

So the City Paper may be part of a bankrupt chain and we may be guilty of a bankrupt form of alternative journalism, but we can still sell burgers, dammit!
The "Free Burger Day" coupon in this week's issue has generated a long line of freeloaders today looking to cash in at Z-Burger, the Tenleytown joint [...]