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It's Tuesday—time for Todd Kliman's weekly chat. Got any Restaurant Week experiences you've been meaning to report? He'll want to hear about them! If your interests run more to the political, then you'll want to check out our annual survey of the Best & Worst of Congress, which we just put online today.

Our own Garrett Graff is covering the DNC out in Denver—read his coverage here—and Sommer Mathis of DCist.com is also doing a bang-up job of filling us in on the happenings out in Colorado.  

Yesterday was the first day of school for kids in the District. How'd it go? Not too bad at all, reports the Post.

What's up with all the stolen cars, wonders the blogger at 14th and You, noting an uptick in auto thefts. 

What's Up Arlington gives us the heads up on Planet Arlington, a world music festival taking place this weekend.