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>> Colonel Brooks’ Tavern, a longtime neighborhood fixture in Brookland, is closing next month to make way for a new $50 million residential and retail development, the Post reports. The bar was a regular hangout for Brookland’s residents and nearby hospital workers, but was marred in 2003 when three employees were shot execution-style during a robbery.

>> Dissed by Republicans and mostly ignored by Democrats, D.C. can’t get any love during the presidential nominating conventions, Loose Lips writes. But maybe we don’t deserve any. Political scandals aside, LL argues, recent statehood advocacy efforts “too frequently come off as little more than political self-promotion.” (i.e. mayors getting arrested, performance artists starving themselves, etc.)

>> The “Washington” Redskins totally crushed it last night, beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-3. Oh, it was a preseason game? Never mind.

Briefly Noted: Homemade sitcom H Street has its debut … Goodbye, summer interns … Them’s fightin’ words between Michael A. Brown and David Grosso … George Huguley to be sentenced today … The September issue as policy doctrine.

This Day in DCist: Last year, Darryl Hannah was arrested outside the White House. In 2010, people thought things in the District were improving. Lulz.