Photo by marcviln.This week: let’s connect the Mayor’s many, many, many buddies to D.C.’s various crumbling roads, shall we?
- For those of you who have missed, oh, the last year in local politics, The Post’s Nikita Stewart and Paul Schwartzman provide a primer on all the Mayor’s horses, and all the Mayor’s friends. Fortunately for him, Adrian Fenty has approximately $2 million more than Humpty Dumpty did, so regardless of whether or not he gets put back together again, he’ll probably still be the Mayor come the end of the year.
- I’d vote for Wale if he ran for Mayor, though he seems more content to tour the world, be a rising star, and enjoy the good life. The mixtape king was at the Wizards game on Friday night, and joked with CSN that he might use play-by-play man Steve Buckhantz’s “dagger!” catchphrase on his next record. It is not an exaggeration that this is probably the most exciting thing that’s happened involving the Wizards this year.
- The obituary on the Wizards’ season was written a long time ago. But how do you write an obit for a grocery store? Well, Hamil R. Harris gives it a whirl, for the soon to be closing Safeway at 514 Rhode Island Avenue NE:
For longtime shoppers, that Safeway has been more than a store. In those aisles, people kept family recipes alive, got the latest gossip and bought cakes to celebrate milestones. Cashiers were more than employees; they were friends.
“It is really sad because many people depended on this store,” said Zelma Johnson, 54, who lives in Northeast.
- But not all is lost on the retail front, especially on H Street NE. Reports of significant new development at 3rd and H, and potential mixed-use at 13th and H have people talking.
- People were also talking this week about the announcement of the peak dates for the 2010 Cherry Blossom Festival; but the festival needs volunteers who have a knowledge of D.C.
- Former DCist editor Mike Grass certainly has a knowledge of D.C. He tells us that “The Reagan funeral-related emergency road repairs on Waterside Drive from 2004 are all potholed now.” So I guess we’ve got another, what, four years until we’ll need to lay down new asphalt on Pennsylvania Avenue?
