Picture illustration by Emma Spainhoward with {photograph} by Getty Photographs.
Good morning. Showers this morning, then clearing and a excessive round 67. Extra wind gusts are doable. The low temperature in a single day will likely be round 45. The cherry timber on the Tidal Basin are within the puffy white stage, the final cease earlier than peak bloom.
Right here’s a DMV March Insanity replace from my coworker Jacob Raim:
This weekend was the opening weekend of the NCAA event on each the boys’s and ladies’s facet with a bunch of DMV-area groups in motion. On the boys’s facet, American College made their fourth ever NCAA event however bowed out earlier than the weekend, shedding to Mount St. Mary’s of Frederick in a primary 4 play-in recreation. The Mount’s life within the event was quick lived, shedding by 44 to Duke. The Maryland Terrapins noticed success, incomes a spot within the Candy 16 with wins over Grand Canyon College and Colorado State, the latter through an unbelievable buzzer beater by Derik Queen. They’ll meet prime seeded Florida on Friday. Different space groups in motion included Liberty, Norfolk State, and VCU, all shedding within the first spherical. On the ladies’s facet, Maryland and Norfolk State confronted off within the first spherical, with Maryland successful convincingly. They’ll face Alabama tonight within the second spherical. Richmond smashed Georgia Tech within the first spherical however fell to top-seeded UCLA within the second. William & Mary (gained their first ever NCAA Event recreation within the play-in spherical), George Mason, and Liberty all dropped their first spherical video games.
Thanks, Jacob! Baseball season is sort of right here: The Nationals will play Baltimore this afternoon in an exhibition recreation at Nationals Park. Opening Day is Thursday. The Wizards host Toronto this night. You possibly can discover me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Sign, and there’s a hyperlink to my electronic mail deal with on the backside of this put up.
I can’t cease listening to:
The Mills Brothers, “Lazy River.” Frida Kahlo reportedly liked the Mills Brothers, so their model of this Hoagy Carmichael commonplace will likely be on my thoughts tonight as I attend a soirée to have a good time a buzzy new Kahlo exhibition that can open on the Virginia Museum of Tremendous Arts in Richmond subsequent month. The remainder of my week guarantees to be much less swanky however a variety of enjoyable: I plan to see the Exhausting Quartet on Tuesday at 9:30 and Tsunami at Black Cat on Thursday. I noticed Scream play final evening in Kingston, New York, and there have been a number of candy shoutouts to DC.
Right here’s some administration information you may need blocked out:
DC funds replace: Congress returns to work this week. The Home’s GOP management introduced its flooring schedule Friday, and it didn’t embody the Senate’s proposed repair to DC’s funds. That would change by subsequent week, relying on whether or not President Trump weighs in. (Punchbowl Information)
Congress is again: Republicans “face a brutal actuality verify: Their legislative agenda goes nowhere quick.” (Politico) Regardless of calls to take action from some annoyed Democrats, Chuck Schumer mentioned he gained’t step down as their chief within the Senate. (AP)
Trump and the courts: Trump issued a memorandum Friday that threatened “to make use of authorities energy to punish any legislation corporations that, in his view, unfairly problem his administration.” (NYT) His marketing campaign has many huge legislation corporations “scrambling to remain out of the crosshairs.” (WSJ) The administration additionally tried to take away US District Decide Beryl A. Howell from a case introduced by Perkins Coie over his government order aimed toward that agency. (NYT)
Musk stuff: Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi warned US Consultant Jasmine Crockett to “tread very rigorously” after she criticized prime Trump donor and DOGE challenge chief Elon Musk. (Politico) Jeremy Clarkson referred to as Musk an fool. (Politico) An Arlington resident says somebody scratched a swastika onto the hood of his Tesla. (ARLnow)
• The Kennedy Middle could possibly be renamed the “Roy Cohn Pavilion of Massive Robust Males who Love ‘Cats,’” and different roasts of Trump from Sunday, when Conan O’Brien acquired the middle’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (Washington Put up)
• The administration mentioned it could ship a delegation to Greenland this week that features Usha Vance, a transfer Greenland Prime Minister Mute B. Egede referred to as “extremely aggressive.” (NYT)
• The White Home is in search of company sponsorships for this 12 months’s Easter Egg Roll, yet one more uncommon transfer. (CNN)
• Trump yanked safety clearances for Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton. (NYT) He additionally complained a few portrait of him in Colorado. (The Hill)
• Mia Love, the primary Black Republican girl to serve in Congress, died Sunday. She was 49 and had a type of mind most cancers. (Washington Put up)
• Jessica Aber, the previous US Legal professional for Virginia’s Japanese District, died this weekend in Alexandria. She was 43. (Washington Put up)
• Kitty Dukakis died at 88. (NYT)
• Tiger Woods introduced he’s relationship Vanessa Trump, the President’s former daughter-in-law. (AP) Vanessa Trump’s daughter Kai Trump is “a part of the GOP’s subsequent period on-line.” (Washington Put up)
Not too long ago on Washingtonian dot com:
• Restaurant openings this spring that our meals critics are wanting ahead to.
• The right way to eat your manner via Ellicott Metropolis’s Korean institutions.
• 5 new issues to search for at Nationals Park this 12 months.
• The place to get brunch close to the cherry blossoms.
Native information hyperlinks:
• A Venezuelan couple in Maryland have been arrested once more on Friday by federal immigration brokers despite the fact that a federal choose “ordered their launch final week.” (Washington Put up)
• Tavish Forsythe, a contract worker on the Kennedy Middle, was fired after he posted “35-minute-long bare protest video.” (NBC4 Washington)
• Francis Layrle, who ran La Piquette, has died. (Tom Sietsema)
• Former DC Legal professional Normal Karl Racine “is dealing with calls to step down because the federal monitor of Cleveland’s police power following an early morning incident at a on line casino” in Cleveland. (WCP)
• Cotey Wynn and Antwan Shelton have been charged with the 2023 killing of Blake Bozeman. Wynn labored as a “violence interrupter with the Remedy the Streets program.” (NBC4 Washington)
• Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin bought booed in Richmond. (Brad Kutner)
Did you miss our 100 Very Finest Eating places Listing? It’s right here.
Ahead.
