- MPD Chief Cathy Lanier played it cool on The Kojo Nnamdi Show today, laughing off the leak of one of the department’s secretive “go-go reports” to the City Paper, calling the report merely a “schedule of events” and “part of my situational awareness.”
- I haven’t had time to read the entire 30-year plan, but as long as the phrases “National Mall,” “plans for” and “more restrooms” are located within close proximity of each other, I’m happy.
- Bon Appétit magazine calls temple of mixology The Passenger one of the country’s ten best new cocktail bars.
- Bruce DePuyt reports that the National Theatre’s run of Dreamgirls has been cancelled due to underwhelming ticket sales.
- According to a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America’s Health, the District has the third-lowest “statewide” rate of adult obesity in America, trailing only Colorado and Connecticut.
- Behold! Weekend detours on the Circulator and various Metrobus routes revealed!
- New Columbia Heights notes that dog parks aren’t just a good place for Fido to play, but they’re a breeding ground for community vigilantes.
- William and Mary undergrad Olivia Walch is the winner of the Post’s “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” contest; her winning entries actually aren’t too shabby.
Photo by Paul Frederiksen.
