Photo by Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie.
- Holy cow — notoriously technophobic reporter Mark Plotkin has a Twitter account, not that he likes it or anything. [@markplotkinwtop/DeBonis]
- Greenbelt: Washington’s Quidditch hotbed. [WTOP]
- Michael Richard’s meatball concept: [insert mandatory reference to testicles here]. [Eater]
- An interesting review of how Metro’s website has changed between 1996 and now. [TBD On Foot]
- The Columbia Heights Z-Burger is getting held up due to problems with its sidewalk cafe permit. [Park View, D.C.]
- Sorry, federal employees: your swag is soon to be a thing of the past. [WaPo]
- The District’s Office of Planning says the proposed hotel along Champlain Street NW is too tall; the developers say that the only way the hotel can be successful is at its proposed size. I’ll put on a few dozen pots of coffee. [Housing Complex]
- Build new roads, expect more traffic: the Intercounty Connector is no exception. [WaPo]
- The hits keep coming for DYRS: the agency has agreed to pay $130,000 to a former employee who was fired as the interim superintendent of New Beginnings Youth Development Center after an escape in April. [WaTimes]
- D.C. man sentenced to 13 years for a 2008 killing on the 1500 block of F Street NE. [WJLA]
- Maryland’s smuggling its liquor in from Alabama, apparently. [WAMU]
- A report from the groundbreaking of the huge Monroe Street development near the
Rhode Island AvenueBrookland Metro station. [Curbed] - Where the murals are. [Mural Locator]
- Put it this way: any story involving an exchange between a Board of Zoning Adjustment chair which ends with “You see some of the Redskins cheerleaders’ buttocks, too,” well, that’s a story worth reading. [City Paper]
