Rachel Kurzius- Get ready for a chilly start to a stormy weekend. [WTOP]
- The effort Medium Rare makes to keep its secret sauce very secret. [Washingtonian]
- More than 100 teachers and students protested the D.C. education budget at the Wilson Building. [Post]
- This Syrian refugee is selling traditional cuisine with recipes he learned from his mom. [Eater]
- Why Metro stayed open for the Caps last playoff game. [WTOP]
- Judy Stevens, a beloved bartender at as many as seven D.C. gay bars, dies at 79. [Blade]
- More on the ban on marijuana use in federal housing. [Post]
- Local hotels had a “rough” start to the year, thanks largely to the shutdown. [Bisnow]
- After failed ATM robbery attempt in NE, truck abandoned. [NBC Washington]
- Metro crows. [Popville]
- Dating tips from D.C. bartenders. [WCP]
- Maryland millionaire convicted of murder for creating “death trap” for man he hired to build secret bomb shelter. [Post]
- ICYMI: This Hong Kong-inspired restaurant in Columbia Heights doesn’t “want to be the next big thing. I want to be the next 20 years sustainable thing.”
- ICYMI: Cash will return to the Sweetgreen registers.
- This Day in DCist: We scoped out a new virtual reality machine at the Air and Space Museum.
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