Photo by James Calder.- We thought you might appreciate the above photograph, taken during yesterday’s festivities at Long View Gallery as DCist closed the books on our fifth Exposed photography exhibit. Many, many thanks to frequent DCist Flickr contributor volcanojw for the decorating on our traditional dish. (And before anyone complains, remember: you were all invited.)
- Look, if you want to spend your life terrified that the nuclear issues Japan currently faces are a sign of the end of humanity, that’s your prerogative. But if you’re freaked out by the Virginia state Department of Health’s warning that residents probably shouldn’t drink rainwater due to potential radioactive particle consumption, well, you probably need to get out a little more. (Or, you know, just focus your fears on the nuclear reactors located in the Old Dominion proper.)
- Marriott — who just got a big tax abatement to build a boutique hotel in Adams Morgan — claims that hotel growth in D.C. is “slower than expected.”
- Witnesses to a shooting on Sunday on the 1200 block of 11th Street NW detained the shooter until police arrived to arrest him.
- Amanda Hess has this piece on the ridiculous myth forwarded by politicians that transgender anti-discrimination legislation would somehow lead to sexual predators donning the opposite gender’s clothing and going into public bathrooms to rape people.
- Tysons Corner is getting more access to transit? That’s great! Of course, it would probably be good if people could actually get to the Metro stations that are being installed.
- Capital Bikeshare will get a large chunk of the money raised from parking fees assessed around Nationals Park, notes TheWashCycle.
- WMATA HQ is getting a $7.4 million upgrade.
- This historic image of Scurlock Studio, which you know now as Nellie’s Sports Bar, is all kinds of awesome.
- Hey, another burger joint! This time, it’s Z Burger in Columbia Heights.
- “Now sans humor, Peanuts reads like the transcription of Charles Schultz’s therapy sessions, where pauses speak volumes, mysteries are revealed, and the world is an unrelenting misery factory. So, basically, Peanuts.”
