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>> As D.C. continues to remember Chuck Brown, the City Paper devotes its new issue to reflections on the Godfather of Go-Go. Sarah Godfrey looks back on Brown’s cultural impact; Shani Hilton writes about becoming a go-go fan; and Marcus J. Moore considers Brown’s influence on hip-hop.

>> And don’t forget to pick up a dead-tree edition for the cover mosaic of Chuck Brown and his many, many fans.

>> Sulaimon Brown praised investigators for their “hard work” (heh) and said Mayor Vince Gray should resign in the wake former Gray campaign aide Thomas Gore’s guilty plea on campaign fraud and obstruction of justice charges. “Mayor Gray should resign immediately if not sooner for his violation of not only me, but the Public trust of The District of Columbia residents,” Brown told the Post.

>> Meanwhile, Loose Lips has it from a source that Gray’s 2010 campaign chairwoman and close confidante Lorraine Green knew about the payments the campaign made to Brown.

>> What is the story with that torching of D.C. police and fire documents? Internal Affairs is investigating, the Post reports.

>> Bad takeout from H Street NE? An entire shift from a D.C. Fire station at 1300 Florida Avenue NE fell ill yesterday and was taken to the department clinic, NBC4 reports. (More likely, it was due to chemical exposure.)

Briefly Noted: D.C. Fire lieutenant accused of stealing hay from Prince George’s horse farm … Happy two millionth, Capital Bikeshare … It should not have taken nine hours to fly from Washington to Miami … Senators aren’t buying the Secret Service’s internal reforms in the wake of the Colombia scandal.

This Day in DCist: A year ago today, the second coming of Stephen Strasburg began. In 2010, come for the cheesecake, stay for the credit-card fraud.