Photo by christakiSo Sommer Mathis is handing off the torch. For the next two weeks, I’ll be running the interim relay. Tell me, what’s the tip line password, again?
>> Totally confused about how to get to the Wendy’s at New York and Florida Avenue NW now that the traffic pattern’s changed? Don’t sweat it — DDOT’s got your back. Mmm . . . spicy chicken sandwich.
>> The top story in the local press today? Olivia Mancini. Not only does she surface all over this week’s music picks, she’s the subject of a Washington Post profile today about her future plans. Do what you gotta do, Olivia, but could you please do it closer to home?
>> Michelle Obama tells Anacostia High School’s graduating class to “ask for help, be aggressive, dream big and give back,” as the Post glosses her commencement speech.
>> In a report released today, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission outlined the next 20 years for Prince George’s County. Expect better schools, better transit, and more walkable communities, eventually.
>> Vincent Gray has a long way to go to make up the difference between his campaign coffer and incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty’s $3.3 million war chest, but Gray’s first filing shows he’s off to a good start, having raised north of $561,000 already. Mike DeBonis, who is himself off to a hell of a start at the Washington Post, says that Gray has proven that he can make a credible run for the office.
>> How to fight the invasive Oriental bittersweet weed? Sculpture.
>> Art writer, filmmaker, and rabble-rouser Greg Allen lives bi-coastally between D.C. and New York. Strictly speaking, this news is New York news: He’s publishing a print with Jen Bekman’s 20×200 organization, which commissions affordable fine-art prints. But since you’re bound to see him around the D.C. museum and lecture circuits — and since it’s a great story for anyone who appreciates art — you ought to read about how he appropriated a JPEG of a Richard Prince photograph as his own, which he’s now selling as a 20×200 print. Prince himself appropriated the Marlboro Man image from a commercial advertisement, you see. Your mind: blown.
