- Rend Smith reports that his police sources claim that the case against the five DC9 employees is stronger than most people believe. Also: DC9 has gone ahead and moved or canceled all shows at the club through October 31.
- Borderstan has a detailed breakdown of crime along the 14th, 17th and U Street NW corridors during the first nine months of 2010.
- A teenager jumped from a third-floor balcony at McKinley Technical High School’s homecoming celebration on Friday; he suffered a facial laceration but otherwise fine. No word on what made the student jump.
- Hardly shocking: the Feds refuse to pay the city for a new D.C. storm water fee, which — you guessed it — goes towards paying for upgrades to meet federal water standards.
- SoberRide is available for the Saturday night before Halloween (when assuredly most people will be celebrative All Hallow’s Eve — if they aren’t too tired from the Colbert/Stewart rallies).
- Red Palace, the new bar which mashes together H Street favorites The Red & The Black and Palace of Wonders was supposed to open on October 15. But the opening has been pushed back to next month. Shows through November 5 have been canceled.
- Whoa, slow down a second. There’s a Northern Virginia Tea Party?
- The naked firefighter isn’t suspended after all!
Photo by Ernest E. Hardt.
