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Who Said Print Was Dead? WaPo Groupon Selling Like Hotcakes

By Scott Brodbeck

In the hyperactive era of RSS feeds, smartphones, and yes, blogs, it’s kind of heartwarming to see that there’s still a market for the good ol’ fashioned Sunday newspaper, if only thanks to Groupon.

So far, more than 2,500 people and counting have paid $10 for a 20-week subscription to the Sunday Washington Post on Groupon.

That’s pretty impressive, given that the Post’s Sunday circulation fell by 8.2 percent in the most recent six-month reporting period.

Groupon, by the way, does a creative job of selling the paper when you can get the same articles on the web for free.

Although more and more people are turning online for info, spending a quiet afternoon with a hard copy of the Sunday paper trumps staring at a computer screen. Make a foray into the informed with a newspaper, which unlike a computer monitor, can later be used to line your table for a crab feast.

(h/t to Clarendon Culture)

WaPo Editorial: Va. Should Conduct HOT Lanes Study

By ARLnow.com

In an editorial today, the Washington Post questions the basis for Arlington County’s $750,000 lawsuit against the proposed high occupancy toll lanes on I-395. But after calling the lawsuit’s racial claims “a doozy” and asserting the need for more capacity along I-395 and I-95, the Post says that Virginia and the Feds should accede to Arlington’s request for a full environmental impact study.

The request is “reasonable,” the Post editorial board writes, while adding that “once [the study] is complete, Arlington should stand down before it throws further taxpayer dollars down into the sinkhole of litigation.”

See the editorial here.

Screwtop Wine Bar Gets WaPo Write-Up

By ARLnow.com

Clarendon’s Screwtop Wine Bar received a flattering write-up in today’s Washington Post.

One local’s conclusion about the two-month-old wine bar and cheese shop? Screwtop is “just what the neighborhood needed.”

Along with the recent additions of American Flatbread and Bakeshop, also on N. Fillmore St., it’s getting harder to argue that the neighborhood is missing much of anything food, drink and trend-wise.