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In this week’s Washington City Paper, available today: this year’s Filmfest DC looks at the seamier side of life.

LEADING THE MORNING NEWS:

• Washington City Paper at-large debate at the Black Cat on April 15: Be there. [Loose Lips]
• Improving city life drives baby boom in the District. [Examiner]
• Marion Barry tweets his release from the hospital, bids goodbye to barbeque ribs…maybe. [Post]
• Dupont Circle groper deported back to Nicaragua. [WJLA]
• Gentrification reaches into the suburbs. [Post]
• Military ceremonies will now feature District flag along with flags from all 50 states. [Examiner]
• New pedestrian button to make intersections even more confusing. [NBC 4]
• D.C. set to close public housing wait list. [Post]
• Library of Congress worker allegedly unleashed sex creeps on ex-girlfriend using Craigslist. [Post]

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He’s Back: Can Pat Mara finally win a spot for the GOP on the D.C. Council?

Dry Street: A proposed liquor license moratorium on U Street NW might be one of the very few of the District’s moratoriums to be defeated.

Minding Their Beeswax: As spring approaches, Washington beekeepers want the public to send in tips about bee swarms so they can capture them.

LOOSE LIPS, by Loose Lips columnist Alan Suderman. (tips? lips@washingtoncitypaper.com)

• Gray administration assigns arbitrary grades to city agencies, praises itself. [Post]
• Pat Mara and his discontents. [Post]
• With Michael Brown out of the race, who will win? [Examiner]
• Marion Barry’s Ward 8 address draws critics. [Informer]
• Public housing list may stop taking new applicants. [Post]
• One Judiciary Square boondoggle has milestone. [WBJ]
• Child boom coming to D.C. schools. [Examiner]

HOUSING COMPLEX, by Aaron Wiener (tips? awiener@washingtoncitypaper.com)

• What would U Street NW look like with a liquor moratorium? It’s not a pretty picture. [Y&H]
• A judge rules against Jack’s Boathouse. [Georgetown Metropolitan]
• An enormous restaurant is opening a block from the White House. [WBJ]
• Density promotes neighborliness. [GOOD]
• D.C. traffic cameras draw scrutiny from The New York Times. [NYT]
• D.C. to buy the land under One Judiciary Square for $1. [WBJ]
• A swanky slice of Ivy City (?). [UrbanTurf]
• Hotel project moves forward at 1st and N SE. [JDLand]
• Today on the market: A house in the Highlands