• Due to his health, Mac McGarry is leaving the set of stalwart high school quiz bowl show It’s Academic. So long, Mac. [City Desk]
  • There are plenty of Congresspeople who aren’t going the Chaffetz route and sleeping in their offices. [Reliable Source]
  • The Woodward & Lothrop building is getting some cool iron detailing. [The 42]
  • Walmart will build to LEED standards in the District, because they have to. [WBJ]
  • Good news: you’ll actually be able to eat at Johnny Monis’ new restaurant without having to worry about refinancing your home or missing that month’s rent payment! [Metrocurean]
  • “One of these potential projects is behind me,” Obama said. “It’s the Key Bridge, one of the five major bridges that connect the commonwealth of Virginia to D.C. Two of these five bridges are rated structurally deficient — which is a fancy way of saying you can drive on them, but they need to be repaired.” [Georgetown Patch]
  • The Blade’s Kevin Naff thinks that Leonardo DiCaprio should pay for Franklin Kameny’s funeral because he’s rich and Leo sought Kameny’s advice while in town filming his J. Edgar Hoover biopic. Alrighty then. [Blade]
  • Today’s sign of the apocalypse. [HuffPo]
  • There isn’t much of a correlation between October snowfall and snowpocalypses later in the season. [CWG]
  • D.C. police are searching for a young man who robbed an unidentified business on the 2300 block of Rhode Island Avenue NE at gunpoint. [WaPo]
  • A Frederick County woman is facing 104 counts of animal neglect involving “scores” of cats. [WTOP]
  • Filene’s Basement goes belly up. Who, oh who will host those wedding dress runs? [Consumerist/Housing Complex]
  • The budget for the Dulles Rail extension is incredibly tight. What else is new? [WTOP]
  • The Post is doing a series of profiles on international cuisine in the ‘burbs — the first entry is on Bangladesh. [WaPo]
  • Now that’s a headline. [WTOP]
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