Be aware that for the afternoon, there is a heat advisory in effect with the heat index hovering near 100, Capital Weather warns. And speaking of Capital Weather, their photographer, Kevin Ambrose, snapped some great photos of the Mall yesterday evening toward sundown, one seen here. Blue and Orange Crush: Oh boy. WMATA started running eight-car trains on the Orange Line yesterday to ease crowding. But a “vital safety system” that keeps trains from colliding…

A few months ago, we were told a story about a couple that had just bought a condo on the Georgetown waterfront with a prime view of the … Whitehurst Freeway. (Ooops, you didn’t see the highway during the open house? The curtains must have been closed.) “Oh, we have a strong citizens’ association!” the wife said. “We’re going to have the freeway taken down.” We thought, boy, it’s amazing how far one’s condo fees…

We hate to nit-pick the Examiner since it is for sure still trying to find its niche and work through the inevitable problems that come with starting a newspaper from scratch. But we feel it necessary to comment on something we saw on page 3 of the District edition. Yes, we already mentioned the “Speed cameras are working” article in today’s Morning Roundup, but there is something we came across when picked up the…

Ever since the Glover Park Whole Foods opened, it seems to have taken away a lot of the celebrity luster that the Social Safeway in Georgetown used to have a monopoly on. This DCist has seen a number of famous-for-D.C. types in the aisles of the Glover Park Whole Foods, including Joe Lockhart (when his Glover Park Group was actually in Glover Park.) Now we hear that last Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with…