- The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation this afternoon allowing overhead wires along the under-construction H Street NE and Benning Road streetcar lines.
- The man knows his music: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in town for an official visit with President Obama, reportedly sent two female aides to Som Records on 14th Street in search of some wax. According to Reliable Source, the women ended up walking away with three Hendrix records, two by King, plus some Gil Evans, Blossom Dearie and Mark Murphy, and paid the $150 tab with two hundred dollar bills.
- Amanda Hess casts a local eye into the latest batch of AIDS statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control.
- ICYMI: That $500,000 Strasburg card I wrote about on Sunday? Didn’t end up selling.
- I will gladly volunteer for service in D.C.’s Water Ice Wars; so many delicious casualties.
- After Metro’s phone system told her to call back during normal business hours, a woman, trapped inside the Cheverly Metrorail station last night, used Facebook to get out.
- Linda Greene, an advisor to Vincent Orange and and spokeswoman for Orange’s campaign for Council chairman, resigned from her jobs after she revealed that Orange opponent Kwame Brown had “spent many nights and weekends at [her] home” and is “part of [her] family.”
- At the Examiner, Bill Myers paints a distressing picture for Adrian Fenty supporters: “Longtime aides to Fenty say privately that the mounting criticism and stress of the campaign have made the mayor even more resistant to advice than usual. He has had to dip into his multimillion-dollar campaign funds to pay street workers, instead of mustering an army of volunteers to help him canvass, like in’ 06.”
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