• Huzzah! It’s safe to eat tomatoes again! [AP via WaPo]
• Not satisfied with Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and McDonald’s for your mass-produced caffeine buzz? Well, you’re in luck – the D.C.-area Subway franchisee has gotten permission to open a set of “Subway cafés,” featuring breakfast, coffee and wi-fi. [Advertising Age]
• Maryland House majority leader and Montgomery County legislator Kumar Barve pleaded guilty to a DUI charge this afternoon in Rockville. [AP via WTOP]
• “I didn’t need a permit to photograph. His counter? ‘Well, you know, terrorists walk around, taking pictures, plotting stuff. You could be one. So we can’t let you do that.’” [We Love DC]
• The occasional sad inequity of the non-profit world – the Director gets rich, services get cut back. [City Desk]
• Is Columbia Heights slowly turning into the “new Penn Quarter”? [Penn Quarter Living]
• Jets and Sharks, prepare yourself: West Side Story, which is returning to Broadway in February 2009, will play Dec. 16, 2008 – Jan. 17, 2009 at the National Theatre – where the musical had it’s first major run over fifty years ago. [Playbill]
• Yeah, we suppose those are some good reasons not to post such a map. [In Shaw]

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