Giving the commentariat a fresh thread (and tidbit delivery system!) and also enshrining a few items that readers may have missed while sweltering through August:

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MAIALINO: The Union Square Hospitality outpost at the new
Thompson Hotel at 3rd and Tingey is going to be Maialino Mare, a "Roman style trattoria." (
Eater DC)
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TINGEY SQUARE:
Via Twitter, it looks like the construction of the long-planned
Tingey Square at the intersection of New Jersey and Tingey is underway.
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PROTECTED LANES:
Via Twitter (sensing a theme?), after much (much!) discussion of the perpetual vehicle occupation of the 1st Street bike lanes, both sides of the 1200 block are now separated and protected.