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Happy Thursday to all. In this week’s cover, we discover that the future of rail to Dulles is in the hands of people who make giant  pigs.

LEADING THE MORNING NEWS:

  • Health care for everybody, or something. Supreme Court upholds individual mandate. [Post]
  • CNN, noo! [Romenesko]
  • Natwar Gandhi‘s confirmation hearing is today. [Examiner]
  • News that surprises no one: Young people want to live in cities, not suburbs. [WTOP]

RECENT CITY PAPER STORIES TO HELP YOU MAKE SENSE OF YOUR DAY:

Bar Spar: The dispute between Hank’s Oyster Bar and nearby residents seems a lot like other neighborhood-restaurant disputes, but could it mark the beginning of a movement to change the voluntary agreement process?

Six Feet Under: Subterranean A is no more, but Ally Schweitzer looks at the unlikely DIY venue’s brief life—-and the one neighbor whose life it improved.

Sketchy Sketches: Meet Billy Hennessy, the dogged court sketch artists whose works include “Clown selling drugs to children.” Elsewhere in Loose Lips, Vincent Orange‘s son caught double-dipping on unemployment benefits.

LINKDUMP BELOW!

LOOSE LIPS DAILY POLITICS LINKS, by LL columnist Alan Suderman (tips? lips@washingtoncitypaper.com)

  • Nat Gandhi is who he is. [Post]
  • Post calls Rand Paul a big ol’ libertarian hypocrite. [Post]
  • Vince Gray talking green in China. [Examiner]
  • FEMS overboard on overtime budget. [Times]
  • Did the NW Current write this hed? [Post]
  • Sen. Joe Lieberman, a pal to D.C. [Times]
  • Four off-duty cops indicted for assault. [AP]

REAL ESTATE AND DEVELOPMENT LINKS, by Housing Complex columnist Lydia DePillis (tips? housingcomplex@washingtoncitypaper.com)

  • The state of the Wharf is good. [SWLQTC]
  • Parking reform cometh. [Post]
  • D.C. area growing even faster than before. [Post]
  • A Trinidadian makeover. [HomeandDesign via Curbed]
  • What lies beneath FormStone [Left4Ledroit]
  • TED for cities reconsiders. [NextAmericanCity]
  • Navy Yard Metro site gets figured out. [JDLand]
  • 14th Street warehouse getting replaced by office building. [Urbanturf]

ARTS LINKS, by Jonathan Fischer (tips? artsdesk@washingtoncitypaper.com)

  • Even better than the line about bidets in Sally Quinn‘s remembrance of her friend Nora Ephron is this: “Lavender and cats! I had never liked either one — who knew they were going to be the next hot things?” [Post]
  • The only thing worse is Air Sex. [Brightest Young Things]
  • Chompie is back! [DCist]
  • Reviews of the National Symphony Orchestra’s South American tour were chipper. [Classical Beat]
  • David Rubenstein, billionaire savior of the Washington Monument, bought himself an Emancipation Proclamation for $2.1 million. [AP]

FOOD LINKS, by Young & Hungry editor Jessica Sidman (tips? hungry@washingtoncitypaper.com)

  • Eleven places to slurp oysters in D.C. [Eater]
  • Foodie icon Anthony Bourdain writes a graphic novel. [HuffPost]
  • Ireland’s Four Fields in Cleveland Park hosts its last pub quiz. [City Desk]
  • Dangerously Delicious Pies opens in Union Station today. [Twitter]
  • Oby Lee Winery and Coffee Shop now open in Clarendon. [ARLnow]
  • Metal brunch at Rock & Roll Hotel [BYT]
  • Old Ebbitt Grill‘s express counter is awesome. [ThriftyDCCook]