Capitol Counsel named Senate Banking Committee specialist Jenn Fogel-Bublick to help lead its growing financial and banking practice. Capitol Counsel – one of Washington D.C.’s top five financial and banking government relations firms – now boasts a fully bipartisan and bicameral legislative approach with the addition of Fogel-Bublick.

It’s graduation season again and NPR has published a compendium of the best commencement speeches dating back to 1774. You can sort by terms like “YOLO,” or by year and speaker. If it’s got a YouTube video, it’s there for you to watch. This is a good tool to bookmark …

Positioned in front of picturesque flags waving in the wind around the Washington Monument, José Andrés delivered his Commencement Address to the graduating students of George Washington University. Andrés called on a few friends to make this address more interesting – it’s funny and worth a watch.

Streetcar delays in D.C. [and in more surprising news, the tooth fairy was your mom] No big deal but Josh Kraushaar rocked it on [Morning Joe today] The McMillan Reservoir Sand Filtration Site [spooky and in your back yard] Arlington can’t forget [what made it the Arlington it is today] …

Grace Ma captured this incredible view of a stormcloud-surrounded U.S. Capitol building. Make what metaphors you wish about stormclouds over the Capitol, this is an awesome photo.

Reddit had an incredible thread last month about best places to read in the District. Maybe you’re motivated to walk outside your door and relax with a book. Or, maybe you’re thinking, “If I have to read policy papers for work, I’ll do so out of the office, damn it.”  …

Russia is threatening [to mess with America’s GPS] District Flea closing indefinitely [hipsters everywhere feel a disturbance] Bill Clinton can see [what’s inside your heart] RIP “Alien” creator and nightmare dreamer [H.R. Giger] We collectively suck [as a driving population] VA teen kicked out of prom [because dads were ogling …

Idiot kid gets arrested when he refuses to sit down at Portugal. The Man [National Zoo concert] The National Mall gets heavy use [so step gently] Marion Barry is being exploited [and coming out with a book] They arrested some Bloods in [Montgomery County] The Silver Line could mean [longer …

It’s been a long three years.

You think the DC Taxicab Commission is pissed at Uber now? Wait until you read this: “In a major update to its mobile app, Google Maps will now integrate Uber’s on-demand car service. That means when you’re looking up the route from point A to B in certain cities, the …

Denmark impressively recreated its entire country in painstaking detail in Minecraft, for educational purposes.       Americans came in and made it MURICA. This is why we can’t have nice things.     Read more about this extremely patriotic predicament here.

A FamousDC favorite photographer, Kevin Wolf is a photographer by night (and dawn, and weekend). Check out his artfully composed portrait of a man near the Washington Monument.

They’re sure as hell gonna try. h/t DCist L Street NW – We're rolling…trying to catch them #parkingdirty. Again: Please, please don't park in our bike lanes. pic.twitter.com/hHzRMasaEe — DDOT DC (@DDOTDC) May 5, 2014

Game on: The lineup for Members vs. Press (aka the 2014 Congressional Women’s Softball Game) has just been announced. Full roster below. Get your tickets for the Wednesday, June 18, 2014 game at 7PM. It’s always a blast, and ticket money goes to a good cause: benefiting the Young Survival …