Where do Washingtonian.com readers see stripes? Lots of places, apparently. This month’s stripes-themed photo contest fielded entries ranging from the obvious—American flags, zebras—to the downright bizarre. Our favorites? Check them out here.

Now it’s your turn to decide a winner. Once you've perused our finalists’ gallery (open it in a new window here), scroll to the bottom of this page to cast a vote. The photograph with the most votes at noon on Friday, February 26, (just eight days away!) will be declared the winner. It’ll run in the April issue of The Washingtonian.

Of course, with all the good entries this month, we had to run a runners-up gallery. See if your photo caught our eye here.

And remember, it’s only one vote per person, and we monitor the polls closely, so play fair. If we notice voting irregularities for a particular photograph, we’ll disqualify it.

Good luck to the finalists, and happy voting, readers!

The verdict is in: It’s gotten harder to make partner. Law-firm promotions dropped—or at best stagnated—in 2009, and for the most part the trend continues. Here’s a look at the 2010 partner-class sizes for some of the largest and highest-earning law offices in Washington.

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Hogan & Hartson:Seven new partners in Washington, up from two in 2009.

Latham & Watkins:Six, up from one last year.

Parents, mark your calendars for Monday, April 5—that’s the date of this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll.

No, strike that; mark them for February 25 through 28. Those are the dates when you can participate in the lottery to get free tickets.

Like last year, anxious parents from across the country will be able to get tickets online. While the online system eliminates the need to camp out all night for tickets, last year’s lottery wasn’t without its own, um, kinks.

But if you’re willing to try, try again, make sure you’re a pro at rapidly refreshing Web pages, and bookmark this site, where you’ll be able to vie for tickets starting February 25 at 12:01 AM. And for more information on this year’s egg roll, go to the White House’s official Easter Egg Roll page.

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Here’s something you don’t run across every day: neighborhood bloggers who don’t actually live in the neighborhood they blog about. Foggy Bottom bloggers Kat and Jared live in Arlington and Columbia Heights, respectively.

But that doesn’t mean they don’t have ties to the neighborhood. Both work in Foggy Bottom, and both attended George Washington University as undergrads. Says Jared: “I still feel very much a FoBoian.”

You might be wondering about their blog’s name, FoBoBlo. It’s a riff on an informal nickname residents used for a grocer on F Street: FoBoGro. “As soon as Kat said FoBoBlo, we knew we found our name,” says Jared.

Geared toward GW students and neighborhood residents, the site’s content runs the gamut from restaurant reviews to recaps of GW sports games. Regular features include Humpday Sales, a Wednesday roundup of Craigslist finds, and Friday Wat, an open thread where readers post funny videos.

We caught up with Kat and Jared to find out what’s new in their neck of the woods. Read on for their picks on everything from favorite lunch spots to happy hours.

In 2009, health-care reform, Afghanistan, and the Obama presidency topped the news, according to analyst Andrew Tyndall’s annual roundup of network news—but what about the people who actually bring us the news?

According to Tyndall, here are Washington’s biggest-talking White House and Capitol Hill reporters from last year.

White House

Jake Tapper, ABC: 370 minutes of airtime.

Chip Reid, CBS: 341.

Chuck Todd, NBC: 288.

As you may have noticed (unless you’ve been in a coma, or under a rock for the last seven days), it’s been a trifle snowy this week. And our representatives, being only human, have been just as obsessed with the weather as the rest of us. Some have rejoiced (Earl Blumenauer), some have gloated (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) and some have almost starved (poor Virginia Foxx). The lucky ones who’ve spent the week outside DC got some much needed R&R watching the Superbowl, although as ever were sharply divided about it.

In other news, Claire McCaskill is taking Michelle Obama’s healthy eating message to heart, George LeMieux is promoting sushi, Jim Himes goes to the beach and Jim DeMint likes The Who- they make him feel young.