Morning Roundup: Goodbye, Abe Edition
Vegetate to Close at the End of the Month
D.C. Police Seek Suspect in Series of Bank Robberies
Suspect in 9-Year-Old's Murder Found Dead in D.C. Jail
Wizards Owner Abe Pollin Dies at 85
Photo of Chaka Khan performing at lunchtime today as part of the Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza concert series by sobertooth
- Oooh! New Amtrak service between D.C. and Richmond will start in December. [AP via WTOP]
- Booo! Tysons Corner Circulator plans are being scaled back, won't be in place in time for opening of the first phase of the Silver Line. [Examiner]
- Ewww! Glover Park bar Gin & Tonic has started running a shuttle bus from Capitol Hill to their bar on Tuesdays, free for anyone wearing an intern badge. [Yeas and Nays]
- Wooo! The D.C. Council announced today that it will purchase three branches of the Boys & Girls Club (the Eastern Branch, the Jelleff Branch in Georgetown and Clubhouse #11 in Columbia Heights), saving them from closure. [D.C. Wire]
- Mmmm! Mid City Caffé announced it'll open on 14th Street NW on June 14. [PoP]
- Awww! Local urban planning blogger extraordinaire David Alpert is getting married this weekend. Congrats! [GGW]
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Kill it, with Fire!
Chaka Khan
She turns to god and she goes to hell.
That's a lotta chaka
Thursday morning means Live Nation is again charging a $4 Chaka Khan cheesesteak fee. And this comes from someone who knows all the words to Ain't Nobody.
Good on the Council for saving the Boys & Girls clubs. That'll probably be more effective in limiting crime and malfeisance than whatever bill they take up.
I certainly hope Dave's wedding will be mass transit accessible, or at least use performance parking and multispace meters so as not to induce vehicle demand. The last thing one needs on one's wedding night is more parking garages. Really ruins the mood. Unless you're into banging tranny hookers in stairwells. Or so I've heard.
How embarrassing -- I wore that exact same outfit to work yesterday.
Gin & Tonic...is that like a Playskool bar?