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This past Friday night and with little fanfare, Alberto’s in Dupont Circle restarted its ovens and pizza-making operations, less than four months after a fire seriously damaged the P street location and left a pizza shaped hole in many pizza lovers' hearts. The same fire also forced the closure of the DJ Hut located above Alberto’s and the Subway next door, both of which remain closed.

The first thing of note at the Earth on Stone on Earth is Naturally So exhibit, now at Flashpoint gallery, is the smell. A musky, damp, soil smell envelops you immediately and is a soothing contrast to the hot concrete outside. It’s the equivalent of getting out of the city, finding that perfect hiking trail in the early morning, and breathing in the damp cool earth; exhaling the stale city air. The smell emanates from the sod covering the majority of the floor and trailing up a small hill, drawing your eye to the back wall where a video of the outdoors, by Evan Wells, is playing.

In fact, during their set at the Black Cat on Saturday night, Chicago-based Tortoise proved themselves to be musically uncategorizable, though simultaneously projecting the aura of a band that knows its way around the jam-band circuit. Whether it was the smell of nagchampa permeating the air, or the whoops and hollers of the audience during every interlude, one couldn’t help but think that a certain illegal, smokable, substance coupled with a more grassy dance floor wouldn’t be just a little more fitting as their musical backdrop. As it were, the video-projection that was the literal backdrop on Saturday night seemed a bit dated (with one portion looking as though it came straight from Tron) and simplistic. However, during the set, the projection seemed to meld more with the music and became more of an accompaniment than a visual distraction.

Chances are, if you live in or near the city and are not fantastically wealthy, you probably have roommates. Maybe you live with friends, maybe with some folks you randomly found on craigslist and barely talk to, but sharing your living space with other people is a fact of life for most people under 30 in D.C. And in this kind of heat, any sort of odd personal odors emanating from your roommates' bedrooms might...

Grass and weeds that are more than 10 inches tall could lead to fines. During growing season, property owners (commercial and residential) are required to maintain their premises in a healthy and sanitary manner, free of trash and excessive vegetative growth.

MONDAY: Tony Kushner will discuss the plays of Arthur Miller with Jeffrey Brown at the Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave NW. Topics may or may not include who the baddest Jewish playwright of our time really is, and whether anyone who convinced the likes of Marilyn Monroe to convert has any competition in that category to begin wtih. Tickets are $13 each; two tickets are included with the purchase of a book. 8:15 p.m. WEDNESDAY:...

Good morning, Washington. Today will be cloudy and cool with a 60 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Today the National Zoo is releasing the first tickets to the general public to catch a glimpse of the baby panda - go to their website and get yours, if you can. If you work on the hill the AP is reporting the smoke which caused an evacuation of the Rayburn House Office Building this morning was caused by overheated cables.

It wasn't long ago that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams and police chief Charles Ramsey were celebrating a murder rate that looked to be falling relative to years past. Oh, how they must be pining for those optimistic days now. Yesterday marked the unceremonious day during which the District's murder rate came to match that of the same time last year -- 156 dead. And it came after a spate of killings that left four dead...

Good morning Washington. With all the Supreme Court news this morning (no, Rehnquist hasn't announced his retirement yet, but here's Linda Greenhouse's piece in the NYT about the Ten Commandments ruling and Carol D. Leonnig's piece in the Post about what the next step is for Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper since the high court refused to intervene in their cases) we thought it fitting to feature Olivia Leigh's photo of the Supreme Court she...

DCist readers might be surprised to know that coming up with catchy headlines for the Morning Roundup is no walk in the park. They have to be timely, witty, incisive, and well-worded. Today is just not one of those days. There's just something about the rain and grey skies that doesn't bode well for the creative spirit. The picture above comes via furcafe. How it ties into the news or theme of the day this...

The photo of Alexandria's George Washington Birthday Parade is by DCist writer Amadie Hart. Bex Blog also has some photos from the parade. Today will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 40s. Two D.C. Schools Closed Today: Classes were canceled today at Cleveland Park's Eaton Elementary School after a community group spayed over 500 cats in the cafeteria over the weekend. One parent told the Post she was "shocked" to discover "The...

Local blog D.C. Art News is reporting on two stories connected to the City Museum of Washington, D.C., which has experienced low attendance since opening in their new location in the Carnegie library building near the convention center.

If you've entered the Dupont Circle metrorail station from the 19th Street escalators, you may have seen this sign, which seems to be a joint Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority-Krispy Kreme public service announcement about taking Krispy Kreme underground. It says: "Resist temptation: We know it is hard to wait. But please, don't eat your donuts in Metro stations or trains. Thanks and have a nice day." DCist wonders whether this was done purely on...