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Dimmed luster, my ass! Regardless of the brewing Ted Loza/Jim Graham scandal, the folks who participated in this year's Fiesta DC did a great job putting on a colorful, fun, well-attended event that deserves to be judged apart from anything else. Here's just a few of the shots our Flickr contributors grabbed on Sunday in Mt. Pleasant.

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics sent word around today that voters who vote in Precinct #39, the Ward 1 polling place that has normally been located at the Mt. Pleasant Public Library branch at 3160 16th Street NW, has been moved. Voters in Precinct #39 will now cast their ballots for the Nov. 4 general election down the street, in the auditorium at Bell Multicultural High School, at 3101 16th Street NW. All registered voters in Precinct #39 should also receive a card in the mail notifying them of this change. For further information, call the Board of Elections and Ethics at (202) 727-2525.

Just last week, D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) introduced legislation that would impose stricter regulations on parking in certain residential neighborhoods, primarily those around active commercial areas such as Adams Morgan. Today we find out that Mt. Pleasant is looking to try out a new parking approach of its own.

The ban on the sale of single beers keeps marching on, so it seems.

Adam Express, a tiny Korean take out joint in Mount Pleasant, is not much to look at. The green brick exterior has traces of graffiti; the rickety bar stools are being held together with chicken wire; and the tired air conditioning unit can barely keep up with the heat emanating from the open kitchen. Write ups from the Washington Post and Washingtonian are proudly displayed on the walls, along with a giant thank you card from a local elementary school, and a primitive drawing of a fish that advertises the day's special as "Fish Soup Cod Fish." Next to the fish sign, a laminated maroon poster proclaims that the Washington City Paper has named Adam Express Best Korean Food in D.C. this year. You would never guess it from looking at the outside.

According to the Examiner, there's a been a recent surge in the number of rapes and attempted rapes in the District, and now police think several of them may be the work of the same man.

PassiveAggressiveNotes.com spots this scooter in D.C.'s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood all decked out in angry, belittling and sometimes profane messages to a failed thief. Check out the full post for more photos, sent in by a resident who notes the irony of the neighborhood's name when matched with the sentiments expressed in the scooter notes. I can't help but be reminded looking at these photos why I eventually decided not to buy a scooter last year, even though I sort of really wanted one.

It only took three hours for the five alarm fire in a Mt. Pleasant apartment building to displace roughly 200 tenants. It didn't take much longer for Ryan Wakeman and Chris DeWitt to come up with a way to help. Under the moniker "The Queen of the Water Dolphins", Wakeman and DeWitt organized a benefit concert to raise donations for victims of the fire.

There are a number of other dramatic photos in the Flickr pool of last night's five-alarm fire in Mt. Pleasant, so we thought we'd post a few of them here. Below the jump, you'll find photos I took this morning from the scene of the fire, which firefighters were still working to extinguish completely at 10 a.m.