- The big plans for the Southwest Waterfront look pretty fantastic, though some people aren’t too thrilled about the fact that one of the buildings is planned to be 11 stories high. While we’re on the topic of tall buildings, construction will begin shortly on a 390-foot tall office building in Rosslyn. It’ll be the tallest building in the Washington area when completed.
- The region’s Flash Flood Warning has been extended to lunchtime tomorrow; do be careful if you’re driving around this evening.
- Michael D. Brown, Michael A. Brown, Clark Ray, Harry Thomas, Jr., Kathy Patterson, Anita Bonds, Deborah Royster, Muriel Bowser, Carol Schwartz, Vincent Orange, Sekou Biddle, Adam Clampitt, Jacque Patterson, Patrick Mara — all names that are getting tossed around to fill the At-Large Council seat vacated by presumptive Chairman Kwame Brown. But if the inside baseball is any indication, it looks like Bonds is the smart bet, like it or not. (Plenty don’t.)
- Bill Euille, a member of the WMATA Board of Directors, slipped and blew out his knee while boarding a train this morning; he was riding to today’s board meeting when the accident happened.
- The Penn Branch DMV will offer free HIV tests beginning on Tuesday.
- Google Maps updated their satellite photos on August 29 and Greater Greater Washington rounds up the imagery of various infrastructure projects that are now aerially visible from your computer screen.
- Great, now I’ll have the haunting image of Alexander Ovechkin’s disembodied head stuck in my memory forever.
- The dream is over: Chipotle will not be giving out free burritos to the foil clad on Halloween this year.
Photo by sally henny penny.
