Tasty Morning Bytes – Budget cuts, Black hair and Free Pancakes!

Good morning, DCentric readers! We’re experimenting with a different style of roundup today. If you have a preference between these sleek headlines and the dense, chunky paragraphs we usually serve as Tasty Morning Bytes, leave a comment and let us know!

Gray eyeing cuts of $230m to D.C. budget (Washington Examiner )

Black women rewriting the rules on hairstyles (Los Angeles Times)

First Look at a DC Walmart (dc.urbanturf.com)

No Waffling Here: IHOP to Give Away 1,500 Short Stacks – Young & Hungry – Washington City Paper (Washington City Paper)

Hit the Road (With 1 Million Close Friends) (NBC Washington)

D.C. Wire – Thomas defends nonprofit, pledges to turn over documents by deadline (voices.washingtonpost.com)