Happy second longest day of the year! What’s been going on, other than discovering that five people paid $250k apiece to be completely obliterated at the bottom of the ocean, while 82 refugees have already died aboard a migrant boat and no one seems to care much about it?
The PBS Fourth of July concert A Capital Fourth will be emceed by Alfonso Ribeiro. Gather the picnic blankets and dust off your best Carlton! Or if you would rather not do the outdoors, park yourself in front of the television starting at 8 p.m. ET.
Don’t forget you can march at our own Capitol Hill Fourth of July parade! Check out more info here and sign your group up to march here. And a reminder that if you have a doodle, you’re cordially invited to march with the Doods! You and your (calm, well-behaved, crowd-safe) pupper are invited to march with the doodle delegation in the Capitol Hill Fourth of July parade. For more information and to sign up, please email lisa01hudson@gmail.com.
The period for requests for proposal is open to redevelop the DCFD museum and Engine 3. Washington Informer
A commemorative stamp of Representative (and former neighbor) John Lewis was recently unveiled. AP via Siouxland Proud
We’re so happy Chef Kevin Tien has stayed close to our area. Axios follows his trajectory.
Barracks Row has been a very important place for gay history. Did you know there was a gay press on 8th Street SE? Hill Rag
A four-story, 30-unit apartment will soon pop up over Atlas Doghouse on H Street NE. Urban Turf
As it turns out, former Bowser chief of staff and former deputy mayor for planning and economic development John Falcicchio’s poor behavior has been substantiated by an internal investigation, the results of which were released last Saturday night. Now, a majority of councilmembers are calling for a third-party investigation. Washington Post
Hatoba in Navy Yard has closed. PoPVille
And the former La Lomita Dos space will become Los Caballeros. Eat DC on Twitter
A new free concert series is coming to Union Station, starting July 6. The Hill is Home on Twitter
The Sam Bankman-Fried house may have sold. Why is it so irritating when publications call the houses around here “brownstones”? Cryptonews
Bars who apply for a special permit and pay a $100 fee will earn the right to stay open 24 hours a day so they can broadcast Women’s World Cup games, from July 20 to August 20. Crikey! Washingtonian