Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?

>> Soon-to-be Mayor Fenty has named Brian K. Lee as interim fire chief and attorney Matthew Cutts to chair the Sports and Entertainment Commission, as well as three mayoral appointments to the D.C. Board of Education: Laura McGiffert Slover, Tonya Vidal Kinlow, and Herb Scott. [WaPo]

>> The Yellow Line extension is Coming! The Yellow Line is extension is coming! On Sunday. [AP via WTOP]

>> Eric Schaeffer of Signature Theater reveals the wild partying ways of D.C.’s “theater people”: singing showtunes. [Free Ride]

>> Wonkette wins the prize for best/worst National Day of Mourning for Gerald Ford pun. [Wonkette]

>> The D.C. Yacht Club is ordered to pay $10,000 for dumping concrete into the Anacostia River. [WJLA]

>> The reason Ari Fleischer is not running for Congress? “Now that I have children, I would never do anything that could risk making them into Redskin fans.” [Yeas and Nays]

>> See you at Bluestate!

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