#NATIONAL Grover Norquist went to Burning Man; RIP Joan Rivers; How to read the New Yorker; this sheep settled the drone debate; lock down your iCloud- just kidding, everything’s probably stolen already; dollar store wars; PSL problems: Starbucks wants even more of your money; the new iPhone and the new…iWatch?; who is 4chan; ATM skimmers: this is not a drill; Uber vs. Lyft, the playbook; the perfect rooms in the Ikea catalog are computer generated (h/t Phillip Herndon); your calls may be intercepted by mysterious cell towers;

#DISTRICT House phones went down, staff assistants rejoiced; Nifty (Politico) 50; Your streets are shutting down; the DC Olympics website sports some … interesting… photography of DC;  Cantor makes bank; it’s really really really time to replace RFK; another move in Uber vs. Taxis; AU professor sets things on fire; Diner en Blanc was pretty neat;  DC women getting paid well; Japanese magnet train will take you to Baltimore in 15 minutes; DC United player visits sick kid and it’s awesome; DC alleyways; Watch out litterbugs, police are on patrol; Chris Brown D.C. saga comes to a close; Attention Chicago transplants: Mercadito is coming; (Chez) Billy brunch back; There goes Bezos, messing with the Post; Billy Collins went a little crazy at the National Book Festival; Capitol Hill staffer exit email: “hilarious”;

#MEDIAMOVES thanks to @StoryPartners; Congrats to Fred Ryan who was named publisher and CEO of The Washington Post. Also at WaPo: Chuck Culpepper joins Post Sports to cover football, Chris Meighan joins as design director for the paper’s mobile initiative and Doris Truong will be the universal desk weekend editor. The Morning Consult adds two new faces: Marissa Evans joins as health editor and Davis Burroughs joins as editorial assistant. Jon Easley will move over to Morning Consult Tech when it launches later this month. Zach Wolf has been hired as managing editor of CNN’s digital politics operation and Emily Kuhn has been hired as a publicist. NBC News: John Reiss has been named acting executive producer at “Meet the Press.” Luke Russert and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough will be making regular appearances on MTP.  Betsy Fischer Martin leaves NBC after 23 years at the network. Kasie Hunt has been named MSNBC’s political correspondent.  Jenni LeCompte leaves Treasury for The Glover Park Group, where she will serve as managing director. Nicolle Wallace and actress Rosie Perez join “The View.” Former NFL player Donte Stallworth joins HuffPo as a politics fellow covering national security. David Weigel moves from Slate over to Bloomberg Politics.  Alex Orfinger and Mike Olivieri, have both been named executive vice president of American City Business Journals. Julia Treanor joins the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity as senior director of communications. Over on the Hill, Lauren Claffey, Sen. Chambliss’ communications director, moves over to communications director at the House Homeland Security Committee. Virginia Dent with Sen. Fischer will replace Claffey. Sen. Heller’s communications director, Chandler Smith, departs the Hill for the American Hotel and Lodging Association, where she will serve as vice president of government affairs and communications. Breelyn S. Pete, current communications director for Rep. Hahn, joins the Economic Development Administration within the Commerce Department as director of public affairs. Moria Bagley Smith moves from the Senate side over the lower chamber to become the director of the House Whip operation.

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mike Majchrowitz, White House correspondent for FOX News Radio, who passed away on Sunday.

#BYE Enjoy your last weekend of freedom and summer’s last attempt at being a real summer.