Your guide to the region's top events, mixed with some commentary about life, media, gossip and politics in Washington, DC.
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Harry speculates on who will step into Len Downie's shoes—and who would want to.
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Good morning, Washington! Here's what we're reading around the web this AM.
Photo of temple flags at the Folklife Festival by Flickr user grace*c* Catch a whiff of that 16-hour smoked brisket? The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicks off this week with a lineup of Lone Star-inspired food and wine events. Check out details here if you're looking for weekend fun. Or if you're trying to plan your Fourth of July, check out our Guide to the Fourth. The Supreme Court struck down DC's gun ban—but the court’s decision will have little effect on gun violence in the nation’s capital, say experts. What's your opinion? Take our poll. Something nobody likes to hear: Expect Metro delays all weekend. DCist points out that the Washington Times web site redesign missed a minor detail. At what point does a neighborhood have too many frozen yogurt outlets? That's what Apples and Bananas is wondering.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the District of Columbia's 32-year-old handgun ban is unconstitutional. Read our coverage of the gun ban, and take a poll on if you agree or disagree with the decision.
Previous coverage of guns in DC:
Why DC's Bad Guys Have So Many Guns
Forget the Supreme Court—and DC’s gun ban. We won’t get guns off the streets until politicians, judges, and law-enforcement officials get serious about stopping the mayhem.
DC Gun Rights: Do You Want This Next to Your Bed?
Should DC residents be allowed to have guns in their homes? The US Supreme Court is about to decide, and where you stand on handgun laws depends in part on where you live, where you come from, and what’s been done to you.
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Good morning, Washington! Here's what we're reading around the web this AM.
Photo of the DC Fish Market by Flickr user Bien Stephenson
Yesterday, Todd Kliman broke the news that Barton Seaver is leaving Hook. And another restaurant development: Colorado Kitchen will be closing. Busy day in the DC restaurant world. The Supreme Court will issue its decision on the DC handgun case today. Penn Quarter Living muses on a sidewalk display—is it public art, or a public nuisance? Chocolate+science=deliciousness? Check out this fascinating story from the Post on local candy giant Mars: "To save chocolate lovers from the agony of a potential candy bar shortage, McLean candy giant Mars is investing $10 million in a five-year project to develop cacao trees that fight drought, disease and poor harvests. Mars will announce today that it is partnering with IBM and the Department of Agriculture to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome."
The Metro is busy these days—DCist notes that it's been breaking readership records left and right.
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Garrett M. Graff
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.
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Garrett M. Graff
As we begin to think about what a Barack Obama administration might look like, one of the intriguing ideas the Democratic nominee-to-be has proposed is a Cabinet-level chief technology officer.
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.”
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Good morning, Washington! Here's what we're reading around the web this AM.
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.
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