>> Did you catch this over the weekend? Washington Post feature writer Linton Weeks uses the first letter of each paragraph of his article about John Updike to express his sentiments about taking the buy out. [Romenesko]

>> Nationals Park is nice and green. [Money Changes Things]

>> The Waldorf man who killed eight people when he drove into a crowd at an illegal street race three months ago in Prince George’s County was arrested last week on an unrelated charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. [WaPo]

>> The expanded Ben’s Chili Bowl location next door to the original on U Street, which will serve beer and lighter fare as well as the traditional Ben’s menu, is set to open in August. [Washington Informer]

>> “It should be painfully obvious to everyone in the city at this point that the last thing a development needs to be successful is parking (even if that development happens to be a massive baseball stadium that routinely seats thousands of suburbanites). It’s absurd that developers need permission to build without parking. Please rectify.” [The Bellows]

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