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» Top Chef D.C. alert: Urban Turf reports that the house where they filmed this year’s season (2121 Leroy Place NW) sold today for $3.6 million. Pack your knives, and everything else, and go.

» Photos from Honfest in Baltimore aren’t news, but they sure are cool.

» ARLnow notes that Arlingtoner and author Patricia McArdle has won the Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award for her novel, Farishta. That’s $15,000 smooth and a publishing contract with Penguin.

» Alex Baca digs into what the Howard Theatre restoration means for the neighborhood. Get excited, Shaw.

» Crystal City nabs a Buffalo Wild Wings.

» Grab a hankie and read ABC7’s tearjerker about 14 organ donors (or family members) meeting up with 14 organ recipients today in Washington.

» D.C. Fire & Emergency Medical Services investigated several “tanks marked nitrogen” that appeared to be leaking late this afternoon. D.C. Fire & EMS just signaled the all-clear, which is good, because we all know how it could have gone.