Rats: They Soar Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease...

Rats have infested the backyards of residents of the 1500 block of 3200 Street, NW and Marvelous Market's trash cans appear to be the main culprit. According to Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Birch, a tree with low-hanging branches near the dumpsters gave the rats a "trapeze point of entry" to a regular source of food. Read more here about the rats and what's being done about them.

New Restaurants Coming Around the New Year

Good Stuff Eatery is hoping for a December opening and ShopHouse has an ambitious goal of opening by the new year.

Good Stuff, Chef Spike Mendelsohn's burger joint, will call 3291 M St. home. The original location is on Capitol Hill and the chef recently expanded to Crystal City. Read more about their plans for Georgetown here.

ShopHouse, a "fast casual" Asian restaurant with a location already in Dupont Circle, will take over the former Furin's space at 2805 M St., NW.

And if you're trying to decide where to eat in Georgetown until then, you can check out some recent restaurant inspections here.

More Doctors Find Muth Competent, His Attorneys Strongly Disagree

Doctors from St. Elizabeths issued a finding Tuesday in which they agree with two experts for the prosecution in the Viola Drath murder case: Albrecht Muth is competent to stand trial.

Muth is indicted on the charge of first degree murder with aggravating circumstances in the death of his wife Viola Drath in her Georgetown home last August.

The defendant's attorneys have requested a hearing to contest the competency findings. The court did not make an official ruling of competency Thursday.

Meanwhile, Muth has re-initiated a fast, which the prosecution and his doctors note began the day after he learned he would be deemed competent to stand trial.