Volkswagen donates $10 million to the Trust for the National Mall. [AP via WJLA]
A new documentary tells the story of D.C.'s shrinking Chinatown. [WAMU]
Sequestration-related cuts to the Smithsonian and area parks might have a short- and long-term impact on local tourism. [Post]
Scuttled Georgia Avenue jazz club Enterprise soon to become Bravo Lounge? [PoPville]
The Washington Monument's [...]

“Life is good in Los Angeles. It’s paradise on Earth,” narrates Danny DeVito in the first moments of L.A. Confidential, Curtis Hanson’s thickly and richly plotted 1997 police drama based on the novel by James Ellroy. “That’s what they tell you, anyway.” It remains the best film about systemic corruption in the City of Angels [...]