Other cities have official birds, flowers and insects.

It somehow seems appropriate that Washington, DC, now has an official cocktail.

The City Council yesterday proclaimed it the rickey, a concoction made with gin or whiskey, lime juice and club soda.

It was invented in 1883 at a tavern called Shoomaker’s, at the time a popular hangout for politicians and reporters.

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If you’ve always wanted to do a juggling act in a Cook County, Ill., forest, you’re out of the woods.

Forest Preserve commissioners have decided to wipe a bunch of old ordinances off the books.

And it’s now perfectly legal to juggle, tell fortunes and do acrobatics among the trees.

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Job hunting? It’s probably not a good idea to handcuff yourself to the interviewer’s desk.

The Toronto office of job-placement firm Robert Half released a list of the worst tactics it’s seen used by job seekers.

Others include showing up with a cockatoo on your shoulder.

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The hottest room in your house is the kitchen — in more ways than one.

A survey by Australia’s Sydney Daily Telegraph found 44 percent of people it spoke to shared “intimate moments” with their partners in their kitchens, with almost 1 in 10 saying it happens at least once a week.

And most of them still had time to cook dinner.

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Italian cops couldn’t have found a better place for an accused jewelry thief who disguised himself by dressing as a priest.

The suspect, wearing a floor-length cassock, was busted by cops — who detained him in the Queen of Heaven jail.

It’s not far from the Vatican.