DCentric

Good Morning, DCentric readers! While you were dancing to Big Boi at the 9:30 club, we were…dancing behind you! And then we went to Ben’s, walked home and compiled delicious breakfast links.

Young District residents allege Fenty campaign offered jobs for votes “The driver was a man who was looking to make a deal: He told Williams and others that they could make $100 per day between Sept. 4 and Sept. 14. First, though, they’d have to go downtown and vote for the man whose campaign would soon employ them: Mayor Adrian Fenty.” (tbd.com)

What did Lady Gaga wear to practice Bikram Yoga, on the hill? “Five-inch Louis Vuitton heels and a gorgeous blazer, which she shed to work out in…Platinum bob, fake eyelashes.” (voices.washingtonpost.com)

Polling employees removed after anti-Fenty remarks “According to Mayor Fenty’s re-election campaign chairman Bill Lightfoot, a precinct captain and a Fenty poll observer overheard a Board Of Elections and Ethics employee tell a voter that Fenty had a poor record when it comes to womens’ issues.” (WTOP News)

911 response questioned in Southeast infant’s death “Sources confirm there weren’t any other ambulances available to send, so at 5:24 p.m., Aniyah was loaded into the fire truck and rushed to United Medial Center, where she was pronounced dead…Sources say Aniyah showed signs of revival during the officer’s attempts, but they did not have oxygen equipment until firefighters arrived.” (tbd.com)

Fenty or Gray? The next Mayor will decide UDC’s future. “”One reason for the low graduation rate in the past is that so many students come from the D.C. public school system,”…”They couldn’t read, they couldn’t write, and they couldn’t do arithmetic…The college serves a diverse student body, as do many public universities. With a graduate rate of 11% (according to recent data), UDC does not serve many of them well.” (NBC Washington)

The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like (+ Stuff Black/Asian people like, too!) “It’s also amazing the extent to which their list shows a pastoral or rural self-mythology: bonfires, boating, horseback riding, thunderstorms. I remind you that OkCupid’s user base is almost all in large cities, where to one degree or another, if you find yourself doing much of any of these things, civilization has come to an end.” (blog.okcupid.com)