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Despite the hubbub that initially came pouring out of Metro's board this week after WMATA announced it would close three Metro stations, including the one that serves National Airport, for the entire Labor Day holiday weekend, the closures are set to go into effect tonight at 9:30 p.m. A majority of the board got on the phone with Metro General Manager John Catoe last night for a conference call (a seekrit conference call!), and the consensus is reportedly that they agree with the decision to do the major track work in question this weekend (Labor Day, it turns out, is one of the slowest holiday weekends for WMATA), but are now pledging to make sure the public is given more notice before anything like this happens again.

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and...

You have to give the D.C. theater community props for organizing something to keep us poor souls stuck in the city for Labor Day Weekend occupied. The annual Page-To-Stage festival, held each year at the Kennedy Center, gives sneak peeks at a number of new works currently in development. The best part? No tickets are required, and all the events are free (first come, first served, of course). Here are just a few buzzworthy offerings...