- Vuvuzela, staycation and cheeseball: among the new additions to the Oxford Dictionary of English.
- Unbelievably adorable lion cubs on their way to the National Zoo.
- We Love DC has a good summary of Title 24, Chapter 5 of the D.C. Code, why local Business Improvement Districts and restaurant associations want to see it extended to included food trucks, what DCRA is doing about it and how it might affect your ability to get a lobster roll.
- American University’s student newspaper, The Eagle, will only publish weekly this year because of financial difficulties.
- Leo Alexander sure does love Golden Corral.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton wants some answers about working conditions at the Capitol Visitor Center; based on the photo of her which leads this report, she wants them now.
- WTOP wonders why the District Department of Public Works only gives flood-fearing residents four sandbags during threatening weather. Director of DPW William Howland tells them that if residents don’t like the limitation, well, tough: “If people need more sandbags, I guess they can go to some other store and pick them up.”
- The City Paper’s “honest” campaign ads for Fenty and Gray are priceless.
Photo by pnzr242.
