Tina Brown sealed the deal with Robin Givhan about a month ago at the Hay-Adams hotel.

“I felt tremendously energized,” Givhan tells Washingtonian. “We had a great time tossing around ideas.”

And so the Washington Post’s trademark fashion critic will leave the paper after a decade and start writing for Brown’s publications, Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She starts January 10.

“I felt we were completely on the same page,” she says.

And the pages of the Washington Post will lose another brand name, adding to a recent exodus that includes media reporter Howard Kurtz, sports columnist Michael Wilbon, and art critic Blake Gopnik. Post editors didn’t respond to questions about whether the paper would hire another fashion critic.

New York City has Gracie Mansion, and Los Angeles offers its mayor Getty House. Maryland and Virginia’s governors live in centuries-old estates. But if you’re elected mayor of DC, as Vince Gray was yesterday, you’re on your own.

The District has taken a few stabs at establishing an official mayoral residence. Talks about building one on Foxhall Road, Northwest, collapsed in 2003. Plans to renovate the former Naval hospital on Capitol Hill’s Pennsylvania Avenue never materialized.

For Gray, that means that come January he’ll still be in a tan-brick house in the city’s Hillcrest neighborhood, a middle-class community on the bluffs east of the Anacostia River.

Is Tom Shales the Washington Post’s television critic? Or not?

Rumors have been circulating through the Post newsroom that Shales would be done on December 31. After reviewing television for most of the last 39 years, he’d be writing for the Post no more.

Fall of an icon! End of an era! A review by Tom Shales could make or break a TV series. His prose could draw blood or bestow a bouquet. The Post tosses another legendary columnist!

What a story—if true.

Tuesday’s results were no real surprise to anyone who kept a close eye on DC’s mayoral race. But as Adrian Fenty hands off the District to Vince Gray, here are five suggestions for each man about how to make the city a better place.

Vince Gray's First Five Moves as Mayor

1. Beg Allen Lew to stay. The school-modernization boss has made school buildings safe and secure for students in every DC neighborhood. He’s fixed roofs and bathrooms, built new schools, and renovated decrepit ones. He and his team are the best thing the city has going for it. While you’re at it, ask Kaya Henderson to stay, too. Michelle Rhee’s top deputy could bridge the chasm between school reformers and the Old Guard.

The initial criminal case ended yesterday with DC Superior Court judge Lynn Leibovitz’s verdicts of not guilty for the three men charged with covering up Wone’s murder. The judge weighed the evidence against the trio and decided the government hadn’t presented enough facts to convince her, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the three had conspired to thwart the investigation of the crime.

But the seeds of the civil case pending against the three defendants—Joe Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward—are sown throughout Leibovitz’s opinion. The literate and readable opinion is as confounding as the case itself: Leibovitz builds a strong case against the defendants, but she exonerates them.

There were some brief moments of mirth Thursday in the mirthless trial about the murder of Robert Wone. One came courtesy of a short video.

“I would like to introduce defense exhibit 901,” said Tom Connolly, who is defending Victor Zaborsky, one of three men charged with covering up Wone’s murder. “It’s a video of us scaling the fence.”

Rarely, if ever, has a lawyer in DC Superior Court shown a video of his prowess as a climber. But rarely has there been a case as confounding as this one, where a murder has gone to court without murder charges, little evidence, and the very real possibility that there will be no justice for the family and friends of Robert Wone.

At 4:05 yesterday, defense attorney David Schertler rose to his feet in DC Superior Court and began to cross-examine police officer Kevin Jeter, an evidence technician. The veteran cop had collected towels and shirts from the Swann Street, Northwest, house where Robert Wone was murdered.

“Hello, Officer Jeter,” Schertler said. “Good to see you again.”