>> Jenna Bush has been named ‘Person of the Year’ by Reliable Source. [WaPo] >> The owner of Tunnel Fine Wines & Spirits, which recently opened at 3rd and H Streets NW, was robbed at gunpoint in the store and shot in the leg late last week. [Penn Quarter Living] >> An elderly couple died in a house fire on the 3100 block of Oliver Street NW this morning. [WTOP] >> Area charities are…

Last week we pointed out a Hollywood Reporter story that says there’s a FOX television show in development inspired by the life of D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. Lanier’s life is certainly the stuff of a good drama — being a 39-year-old single mother who dropped out of high school after getting pregnant at 14, only to work her way to the top to become D.C.’s first female police chief, can’t have been easy. Yesterday…

Tuesday and today Howard University is hosting the Children’s Defense Fund National Summit, which includes panel discussions on the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Initiative, a project that seeks to end the cycle of poor minority children ending up destined to be shuffled in and out of the country’s prison system. Yesterday Bill Cosby appeared on a panel titled “The Need for Personal and Community Responsibility” in conjunction with the summit, along with NPR’s Juan…

>> Little children don’t like President Bush. [YouTube, embedding sadly turned off] >> Director Ridley Scott set off a bomb at Eastern Market yesterday, but Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio were not there, so stop asking us about it. [Reliable Source] >> A U.S. Park Police officer reportedly shot and wounded a driver on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near Riverdale this afternoon. [WaPo] >> The FBI has launched a new Web site, BankBandits.com, in an…

Can’t anyone get D.C. right? Today the Post’s Reliable Source reports that Nicole Kidman’s newest thriller, The Invasion, makes a number of relatively amateur mistakes in trying to use the District as a backdrop, even though a good part of it was filmed here. Among those: – Kidman, who plays a D.C. psychiatrist, buys magazines at one of those big sidewalk newsstand kiosks — the ones all over New York but not on any corner…

>> “The Smithsonian Institution today replaced Gary M. Beer as chief executive of the museum complex’s embattled business unit after an inspector general’s report found that he had abused his institution-issued credit card and billed $95,000 in expenditures that were unauthorized or lacked evidence of a business purpose.” [WaPo] >> Video of Marion Barry getting measured for his wax statue at the new Madame Tussauds wax museum. [Reliable Source] >> Some Orange Red line…

>> “A public meeting on taxicab meters scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled, apparently because too many people were interested in attending and the D.C. Taxicab Commission couldn’t guarantee them parking.” [Examiner] >> A former escort linked to embattled Sen. David Vitter is set to testify that alleged D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s escort service provided illegal prostitution. [WTOP] >> Libertarian billionaire Robert Levy would like to give all D.C. residents a handgun. Or…

>> “District of Columbia Public School students already had been warned that they might not have air conditioning when they return to class Aug. 27. Now school leaders say there might not be enough textbooks to go around immediately, either.” [Examiner] >> The Ballston and Virginia Square Metro stations have reopened after an Orange Line train struck and killed a woman earlier this morning. Police are still investigating what happened. [WTOP] >> Can you…

>> Artomatic comes to a close this weekend, after five long weeks of inundating us with massive quantities of art, free performances, lectures, concerts, film series, demonstrations and workshops, and spirited community building that even your old summer camp counselor couldn’t match. If you haven’t gone down to Crystal City yet, the old Patent Office location is only a few blocks from the metro, and the art fair only rises up every two (sometimes three)…

While we didn’t get too many Sanjaya spottings over the weekend, it seems like a few actual celebrities mixed it up at this weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner. Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, producer of An Inconvenient Truth, chatted with Karl Rove between cocktails and dessert. Crow and “Inconvenient Truth” producer David walked over to the presidential adviser’s table, where David suggested that Rove “take a new look at global warming.” David says Rove…