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- “When a hurricane makes landfall, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relies on a couple of metrics to assess its destructive power. First, there is the well-known Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. Then there is what he calls the “Waffle House Index.'” [WSJ]
- Dan Steinberg says Ben’s Chili Bowl will be slinging chili half-smokes during Redskins games this season. [@dcsportsbog]
- Somebody pepper sprayed a bunch of kids outside Cesar Chavez Charter School today. [WJLA]
- Councilmembers Jim Graham and Jack Evans have been subpoenaed to testify about the city’s lottery contract. [Loose Lips/WaTimes]
- Nearly half the people who sign up for Twitter accounts don’t actually use them. [HuffPo]
- Raising a child in the District of Columbia is ludicrously expensive. [On Parenting]
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Library will be closed on Sundays beginning October 2. Blame the budget gap. [@smencimer]
- Are you ready to plunk down as much to get to Merriweather Post Pavilion on a bus as you are to actually gain admission to a concert? [Arts Desk]
- The Kennedy Center is giving away tickets to every show its hosting this fall. [TBD]
- Signs are encouraging that the District is not on the verge of another wave of foreclosures. [Housing Complex]
- On mayo, mustard and several angry Philadelphia transplants. [All You Can Eat]
- Pho 14’s opens what is sure to be a delicious, delicious expansion today. [New Columbia Heights]
- So much for a mandate. [WaPo]
- BREAKING: despite a growing rat problem, many large retailers are interested in setting up shop in Georgetown. [WTOP/DCMud]
- “I say, ‘Don’t get so upset. Just relax, it’s beer.’ One women said to me that [Chick] will set women back 70 years and I said, ‘Really, a beer brand?’ I think women have come farther than that.” [Village Voice]
