- City Paper publisher Amy Austin provides an update on the paper’s legal battle with Dan Snyder — the paper’s legal defense fund has raised $28,000 from 600 donors to date — and lays the verbal smackdown: “We at City Paper will survive this, and in all likelihood will come out stronger on the other end. In fact, we’re confident we’ll triumph in court. I would suggest that your fans, and ours, would have been better served if we each focused on our real work—in the newspaper and on the field, not in the courtroom.”
- “Male exotic dancer Ed Cloyd, who goes by the stage name “Total Package” at clubs in Prince George’s and Washington, D.C., will not have to wear Band-Aids over his nipples when he dances close to customers.” (Right, like you aren’t going to read the rest of that story.)
- Is a Whole Foods really worth an eight million dollar tax abatement? The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute investigates.
- It looks like the trails in Rock Creek Park will be getting an upgrade.
- The Metropolitan Police Department has an MVP — that’s most violent people — list, focusing on individuals likeliest “to be shot or shoot.” On top? 39 members of gangs in Ward 4.
- A two-car accident at the intersection of 17th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW sent four people to the hospital this afternoon.
- Lydia DePillis reports on the height considerations at the Penn Branch Shopping Center which is the source of all kinds of drama.
- Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty blames teachers unions for the ouster of former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty.
- Arlington is very healthy.
- “Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder shows up at the office to inform Michael Scott that Dunder Mifflin is being sued because someone wrote a mean letter to him on paper he traced back to the Dunder Mifflin warehouse. Scott takes Snyder out to lunch at Chili’s to see if he can get him to drop the suit. Not only does he convince Snyder to do that, he earns Dunder Mifflin a six-year, $54 million contract to be the official paper supplier of the Washington Redskins.”
- Streets of Washington penned this wicked awesome post about the historic bakeries of Shaw.
- Like looking at photos of wild animals? Here, the Smithsonian has 201,000 for you to gawk at.
Photo by Bear425.
