Title:	Go Home Already: Bird on a Wire
Author:	dcist
Date:	2009-12-16 @ 17:35
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Photo by Madame Meow

• Another crime scoop from the Examiner today, this time by Scott McCabe: a months-long drugs and guns police sting that was operating out of a storefront in the Langdon Park neighborhood has netted more than $1 million in heroin and 123 illegal guns. But was it entrapment? Plus more on the undercover informants and on a particular transaction that almost blew their cover.
• And Bill Myers has more on the Reggie Jones arrest. Police allege Jones used his squad car to drive at least one accomplice to the scene of the crime. For his part, "Jones has admitted to being on the scene when the shooting started but has denied any role in the robbery."
• 14th and You breaks down the Mendo meeting on crime in Shaw. "Having now attended the meeting, I'm not sure why Mendelson would host it." Ouch.
• DCPS, DDOE to move to 1200 First St. NE in February, reports Washington Business Journal. Get ready, NoMa!
• Could you one day be able to buy bottles of organic wine at local farmers markets? Montgomery County is considering allowing just that, via Silver Spring Penguin. We say: why the heck not?
• JDLand notes that the Nationals are not bringing back those free RFK Stadium parking again shuttles next year. They are, however, lowering single game tickets prices. Again. Won't you PLEASE go to a Nats game next year?

Title:	DDOT Planning Public Streetcar Debut
Author:	dcist
Date:	2009-12-16 @ 16:03
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Courtesy DDOT

According to a press release, the event will take place sometime early next year (no word yet on a tentative date, but we're told sometime in late January/early February), and will allow members of the public to climb aboard the streetcars for the first time.

"The residents of the District of Columbia own these streetcars, and we want to give them a chance to see them up close for themselves as soon as the vehicles are cleaned up and ready to roll," said DDOT Director Gabe Klein in a statement. "We’re also thrilled to have the streetcars here locally so we can familiarize ourselves with them, test them and prepare for the day when we will put them in service."

We'll be sure to keep you posted on the event as the details get firmed up. In the meantime, DDOT says it will be busy cleaning up and testing the streetcars after their long journey from the Czech Republic.

Title:	Suspicious Package Investigation in Office of Sen. Baucus
Author:	dcist
Date:	2009-12-16 @ 15:48
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Sen. Max Baucus

The Associated Press is reporting that authorities are investigating a suspicious package of the unidentified white powder variety that was delivered to the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.).

An Associated Press photographer at the scene, in the Hart Senate Office Building, heard officers say there was a threatening note with the package. Schneider would not confirm there was a note.

Baucus staff members were told they could not leave the suite of offices, and nobody was being allowed to enter.

Title:	Police Link Dale City Rapes to Serial Rapist
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Date:	2009-12-16 @ 14:40
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Via the Washington Post's Crime Scene blog, word that Prince William and Fairfax police say they have DNA evidence that connects the Halloween rapes of two teenage girls in Dale City to an alleged serial rapist who is suspected in at least a dozen other sexual assaults up and down the East Coast. The rapes span from 1997 to this year, with "at least four rapes in Fairfax County between 1999 and 2001, several in Prince George's County, one in Leesburg and several in Rhode Island and Connecticut." We'll update on this when more information becomes available.

Title:	[SP] Old Theatre Stories
Author:	someposifeed
Date:	2009-12-16 @ 21:07
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Title:	Holiday Films Being Projected on a Big Wall Downtown
Author:	dcist
Date:	2009-12-16 @ 14:01
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Courtesy Golden Triangle BID

Here's a little something fun to keep an eye out for this week. The Golden Triangle BID is projecting a selection of holiday films on the side of a building in the 1100 block of Connecticut Ave. NW, between 5 and 7 p.m. every day this week. They started out on Monday with It’s a Wonderful Life, yesterday was A Christmas Story, and tonight it'll be White Christmas.

Sadly, the BID isn't able to offer any sound to go along with the moving pictures, but it's still a festive thing to see while strolling through this part of the city. The movies will continue through Friday on the wall of Tiny Jewel Box at 1147 Connecticut Ave. NW, and we're told the best spot to see them is on the west side of Connecticut, in front of The Gap. The remaining schedule is as follows:

White Christmas - Wednesday, December 16
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Thursday, December 17
The Nutcracker - Friday, December 18

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Date:	2009-12-16 @ 14:01
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Title:	Non-grandma-ish wrist corsages
Author:	offbeatbride
Date:	2009-12-16 @ 20:00
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I am considering having my bridesmaids wear wrist corsages instead of carrying bouquets. But I can't find any good, hip, cool, young-looking corsage ideas. All I have seen is fuddy, grandma styles. Help! -Melissa

Now, Melissa. You didn't specify whether you were looking for floral corsages or non-floral corsages. But I decided you wanted non-floral corsages, and so of course I turned to my beloved Etsy to help me with this. Here are a few ideas…

A little formal, a little fancy: Pleated Wrist Cuff

Much less formal, awesome for fall or winter wedding:
Gothic Love Knot Wrist Corsage

Similar idea, better for a spring wedding: Knit floral corsage

Very much of the Lasertron school of design, this one: Candy colored felt/button corsages

Understated — more a bracelet than a corsage: Freshwater Pearls Bracelet with Organza

Ooh! SO BOLD: Pink Poppy Bracelet, Hand Felted Merino Wool

Quite understated — but lovely for a nouveau wedding: Art Nouveau Cuff

Now, if you're looking for FLORAL wrist corsages … I like this one:

Or of course you could make your own…then the sky's the limit!