May wedding bells will ring for Jenna Bush and Henry Hager, but Washington won’t see any of the action—the First Wedding honors go instead to the Western White House in Crawford, Texas, the ranch then Governor Bush bought in 1999.

The town—population 705—has been George W. Bush’s home away from Washington for more than 450 days of his presidency, inspiring a new film, Crawford, this spring from Austin director David Modigliani that answers the question “What happens when the President moves to town?”

It's the weekend! An outdoor James Bond film festival, the queen of rockabilly, a Radiohead concert and Artomatic’s opening are just a few of the many events going on this weekend. Read on for our weekend guide.

DCist has the sad news that local musical festivals are struggling and may not take place again this year.

Good news for cab meter sticklers: WTOP reports that Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority won't allow its cab drivers to pick up passengers at Reagan National Airport if they do not have meters.

BeyondDC previews Bike to Work Day on May 16.

With Barack Obama possibly on his way to becoming the Democratic nominee for president, speculation abounds as to who might make up an Obama Cabinet.

While the role of the Cabinet has declined under President Bush—many department heads are virtually unknown inside and outside the Beltway—signs say Obama would take a different approach. Obama has surrounded himself with strong and opinionated advisers, and odds are that his Cabinet appointments would be more than window-dressing.

Secretary of State and national-security adviser? Obama has relied on four familiar Washington names: former national-security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter) and Anthony Lake (Bill Clinton), former Clinton assistant secretary of State Susan Rice, and former Navy secretary Richard Danzig. Obama has recently distanced himself from Brzezinski, a controversial figure in the Jewish community. Retired general Anthony Zinni, if he doesn’t end up on the ticket as vice president, could also be a player.

Greg Craig, the Williams & Connolly partner who defended President Clinton in his impeachment trial, has been a vocal Obama supporter. He has experience at the State Department and has been a defense and foreign-policy adviser to Senator Ted Kennedy.

Hillary Rodham Clinton hasn’t dropped many hints about who might be in her potential Cabinet, but she’s surrounded herself with veterans of her husband’s days in the White House, suggesting that a second Clinton administration would include familiar faces.

Madeleine Albright, Robert Rubin, and Sandy Berger are all active in Clinton’s campaign—although Berger’s legal troubles may keep him out of any official position—but she would likely want to put her own stamp on many of the top Cabinet spots rather than simply depend on her husband’s former staff. She would also continue her Senate and campaign trend of surrounding herself with strong women.

Former top State Department official and peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke is seen as her likely choice for secretary of State, although she’s floated the name of Colin Powell, saying she’d ask the former general and George Bush secretary of State to serve again as a diplomat.

There was an earthquake yesterday! Rare for this area. We ask in our poll: Did you feel it?

It's an expensive city to live in, but turns out DC's also costly to visit. "At $350 a day for two adults, D.C. ranks sixth on the list of the most expensive vacation cities in the U.S., according to the 2008 edition of AAA's Annual Vacation Costs Survey."

What's Up Arlington writes about an upcoming walking tour through "seedy Arlington history."

Creative DC recommends heading to the grand opening soiree of the new location of Tranquil Space Yoga.

The sight of the filly Eight Belles collapsing after crossing the wire to finish second in the Kentucky Derby was unusual, but only because she made it the finish line and then suffered a catastrophic injury that required her being put down.

Apologists for the racing industry, and there are many, always argue after such an event that these breakdowns “don’t happen every day.” They are rare, they are unusual. Trainers, owners, grooms, and jockeys are animal lovers who would never do anything to endanger the lives of the horses they love so much.

If only that were true. At the upper end of the sport, where the Triple Crown races occupy the stage, it is somewhat true. If you have a $1-million investment in the animal, yes, the owners are going to do everything they can to protect and preserve the horse. But the fact is that horses like Eight Belles go down somewhere every day.

During a dinner last week at Healy Hall on Georgetown University's campus, Georgetown President Jack DeGioia honored the British Ambassador Nigel and Lady Sheinwald, who arrived in Washington last fall. See below for our photos of the event.