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- Extra cute engagement story from the National Museum of American History. Museum staff helped a visiting North Carolina man propose to his antique typewriter loving lady.
- From his new perch at the Washington Post, Mike DeBonis explains why the downfall of the meddlesome Rep. Mark Souder is a good thing for the District of Columbia.
- We Love DC checks out the brand new Whole Foods in Friendship Heights. It looks pretty much like a Whole Foods, except, wait a minute, a smoked meat station? Yum.
- Housing Complex takes a gander at the just-released Mt. Pleasant Street Commercial Revitalization Strategy.
- Not a huge surprise, but Vincent Gray has officially scored the Metropolitan Washington Council of the AFL-CIO endorsement, D.C. Wire reports.
- PQ Living reports that Gifford’s Ice Cream at 555 11th Street NW has been temporarily shuttered by the Dept. of Health.