ABC Newsman George Stephanopoulos and wife Ali Wentworth feted author Michael Sean Winters last night at their Georgetown host to celebrated the publication of his new book, "Left at the Altar: How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Democrats." Winters, who used to manage the Dupont institution Kramerbooks and Afterwords Cafe, above which Stephanopoulos lived when he first moved to Washington in the 1990s, served as a speech writer on General Wesley Clark's 2004 presidential race and now lives in Connecticut. See below for our photos of the evening.

CTOs, a now-common post in corporate America, could be a new approach for a government long hamstrung by ill-conceived and poorly executed computer projects.

Obama has called for the position to coordinate the government’s tech infrastructure, work on issues of transparency, and oversee development of national projects like emergency communications.

Names kicking around Silicon Valley and the tech community as CTO candidates include Google’s Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Lotus pioneer Mitch Kapor.

An alternate vision has Obama turning to someone like Ed Felten, a computer scientist at Princeton who has been doing a lot on government transparency and voting machines.

One person on many shortlists for the position, intellectual-property guru and Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, told The Washingtonian that he’d turn down the job if offered: “The CTO would have to be a true geek, not a wannabe geek.”

Photo of the Grand Hyatt's pool by Flickr user fotinakis 

It's Home Renovations Day here at Washingtonian.com! Our Diary of a Fixer-Upper blogger (say that three times fast), Heather Goss, is hosting a live chat today at noon about her renovations process to her rowhouse in Columbia Heights. Ask her anything!

The Folklife Festival starts today down by the Smithsonian. Head on down starting around 11 AM; evening events start at 6 PM.

Mayor Fenty's wife is pregnant with her third child. Congrats!

Creative DC points out three great opportunities for local artists.

Washingtonian.com fashion contributor and photog Rachel Cothran is caught romping around town! 

There's free yoga in Rockville from July 1-3. Check it out. 

The Washington Post newspaper, in downtown DC since its founding in 1877, is going to be absorbed gradually into Washingtonpost.com, its Internet cousin across the Potomac River in Arlington.

“The question is not whether the two will be merged,” one editor says, “but when.”

Like most daily publications, the Post has been losing readers and advertisers for the past decade, while the Web version, which depends on stories and columns from Post newspaper reporters, has been gaining ground.

Many news organizations—theNew York Times and Wall Street Journal among them—already have combined their print and online operations.

Merging the Post’s two sides seemed inevitable when Katharine Weymouth—granddaughter of the legendary Katharine Graham—became chief executive of Washington Post Media, with control of both the paper and the Web site. Still, the Post is at the early stages of connecting its two sides, and no staffers would describe the process on the record.

Photo of the National Air and Space Museum by Flickr user fotinakis.

As our own Harry Jaffe has long speculated, Len Downie finally stepped down from his post at the Post yesterday after 17 years at the paper. See Howard Kurtz's take here.  

It's Kliman Tuesday! Or that's what we call Tuesdays around here, anyways, when food & wine critic Todd Kliman hosts his weekly online dining chat. Ask him anything.

The Supreme Court has delayed its ruling in the DC gun ban case and scheduled a special session for this Wednesday.

What?! There's no "DC for Obama" t-shirt—even though Guam gets one? Outrage!

The City Paper wonders that if big layoffs at the development company of Victor MacFarlane—who also owns the DC United soccer team—mean bad news for a possible DC soccer stadium.

Photo by Flickr user dsearls.

Have you read our Readers' Best of Washington results yet? Find out the most popular dining, nightlife and more, as chosen by Washingtonian readers. 

Hope you brought an umbrella—thunderstorms (and maybe hail!) are being predicted for later today. Again. 

The Supreme Court may give its ruling in the DC gun ban case today. For a refresher, read Harry Jaffe's excellent article, "Do You Want This Next to Your Bed?" about DC gun rights.

The DCeiver notes that even the AP is down in the dumps these days.  

14th and You finds out what happens when you don't move your car for street cleaning. 

"Fuel costs may force Montgomery schools to reduce bus service, requiring more students to walk," reports the Post.

Comedian George Carlin has died of heart failure at age 71.