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  • Will David Catania’s connection to parents help him in the mayoral race? [Post]
  • Relisha Rudd’s 30 absences “astonishingly normal” for D.C. schools. [Post]
  • Phantom Planter protests Metro’s decision to rip out his flowers by showing a video — featuring a puppet and Barry Louis Polisar — outside the Dupont Circle station. [Post]
  • Wizards win Game 4, even without Nene. [Post]
  • Family outraged over detention of man, shooting of dog. [NBC4]
  • Shrine in Northeast D.C. renamed the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II. [AP]
  • D.C. needs more east-west bike pathways. [GGW]
  • True story: I also met Lorena Bobbitt at a salon in Virginia when I was a kid. She did my nails for a wedding. [NBC4]
  • Capitol Hill losing its character one Potbelly at a time. [CHC]
  • This Day in DCist: Matt Cohen railed against the “annual cesspool” that is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.