Good morning, Washington. We were happy to see today will be partly cloudy and slighly cooler than recently – highs in the upper 80s, and a 30 percent chance of rain. We thought this photo of Georgetown at dusk, snapped and Photoshopped by DCBlogs‘ Patrick Thibodeau, captures D.C.’s August haze and heat.
Reader Services Department: A reader wrote to us last week asking us to post a link to a Craigslist posting about his stolen car. He says if he doesn’t recover his 1981 Cadillac Sedan Deville stolen in Mt. Pleasant, “I’ll have to drop out of school.” Yikes! Have you seen this car?
Near Southeast Development in the Limelight: Well before the area was first discussed as the potential location for a baseball stadium for the Nationals, the area in Near Southeast has been a hotbed of real estate speculation. We’ve followed the developments thanks to regular updates by Jacqueline Dupree, author of the website JDLand.com, an exhaustive compilation about development in that neighborhood. Dupree collaborated on a large story in today’s Post on development in the neighborhood drawing on her archives of research.
Amsterdam Falafelshop Makes the Big Time: Regular readers will know we love good falafel, and have been enjoying Adams Morgan’s Amsterdam Falafelshop for some time now. We noted the new shop’s opening in October 2004, happened to be dining there when anarchists attacked the neighborhood in January, and were inspired by them to whip up our own falafel in February. If it was ever a semi-secret, the cat is out of the bag now, as the Post published a full profile of the establishment today. The article is full of interesting tidbits – we especially liked that one of the owners, Arianne Bennett, is a webpage designer. Adrianne’s husband Scott Bennett quipped to the post that although the shop gets some inebriated customers, “frankly, people who come for falafel are usually a different kind of drunk than the pizza drunks. There’s no fights here.”
Briefly Noted: D.C. police shoot a man near 15th and F NE … First Indian Head, Maryland arson suspect to go on trial … Residents object to plan to close park …
