Photo by Amberture

Photo by Amberture


  • Ted Leonsis tries to reassure fans that he will succeed in buying out the Wizards and the Verizon Center.
  • The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates tells it like it is regarding Chris Matthews’ weird “post-racial” comments about Obama last night.
  • Former New York Times reporter Ed Cowan spied Mayor Fenty getting testy with a DPR employee at Wilson Aquatics Center (via D.C. Wire).
  • Possible explanation for above: the mayor may be having an identity crisis.
  • The folks behind the failed Nori Asian Bistro (formerly Mayorga Cafe) in Columbia Heights are being sued for non-payment of rent, the Washington Business Journal reports.
  • Time magazine covers the latest on medical marijuana coming to D.C.
  • DCist contributor Michael Starghill offers a photo essay on a day in the life of At-large D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown.