Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

So, everyone survived that big afternoon storm, right? Okay, good. To the links!

• Big Fort Reno news: The Evens are going to close out the festival on August 4. [Arts Desk]
• Several cars in a subdivision ten miles north of downtown Silver Spring were vandalized with racist slurs this morning. Andy Carvin, an NPR contributor who lives in the neighborhood, has visual evidence of the vulgarity. [WJLA/@acarvin]
• Kwame Brown tells Bruce DePuyt that the Tommy Wells move wasn’t politically motivated. Greater Greater Washington, in turn, is still wondering what it was. Wells, meanwhile, says he’ll get back at the establishment through the Office of Planning. [TBD/GGW]
• Wugazi! Download! Read all about the tracks from people who know their Wu-Tang Clan and Fugazi! [City Paper]
• The District’s schools scored lower than projections, but no one in the federal government really cares. (Though, cheating — that they care about.) [D.C. Schools Insider]
• A 72-year-old man Annandale man stands accused of forcing two women to watch pornographic movies and then sexually assaulting them at an employment agency where he worked. [WaPo]
• Your new seat of WMATA power? Try Ward 4, where all of the city’s Metro board members now hail from. [Examiner]
• Former Nationals manager Jim Riggleman finally ups and admits that quitting the team over a contract dispute was a mistake. [D.C. Sports Bog]
• Well, I guess that’s one way to get your point across. [Brookland Avenue]
• Has Lion’s Liquor on Georgia Avenue closed? [Park View D.C.]
• Water main break makes Capitol Heights all wet. [NBC4]
• The Redskins are going to install some solar panels outside FedEx Field. [WaPo]
• Amtrak’s going to exceed 30 million riders this year for the first time ever. [Facebook]
• A row house in Georgetown caught on fire this afternoon. [WJLA]
• GOP presidential candidates put big time D.C. law firms on their payrolls. [Legal Times]
• Beer drinkers, meanwhile probably aren’t minding Minnesota shutdown. [The Atlantic]
• Whatever, MoCo — our Council clowns are totally better than your Council clowns. [Examiner]
• The District in the 1920s looks a lot like the District of today, just with more tanks moving on the Capitol. [BuzzFeed]