Wire executives would like a reprise of this 2002 downtown prostitution bust. (Dudley M. Brooks - The Washington Post) Romenesko shares the memo-borne news that the Associated Press’s D.C. bureau wants city cops to crack down on prostitution outside its offices, thus familiarizing the world with the availability of sex workers on the 1100 block of 13th Street NW and the city’s constitutionally dubious “prostitution-free zones.” Those, by the way, remains “under legal review” and on hiatus, per Third District Commander Jacob Kishter.

Nota bene: Taking a couple of days off. Back with you on Monday. Unless something happens. You know, something.

In other news:

Welcome D.C. Council member Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5) (D.C. Wire)

LGBT groups would like to track hate crimes themselves, thank you very much (Blade)

Tomorrow’s Chuck Brown farewell will feature Donnie Simpson, Anwan “Big G” Glover, Doug E. Fresh, go-go heroes — and as many as 14,500 more (WTTG-TV, DCist)

D.C. Public Library wants your Chuck Brown paraphernalia (AP)

Carol Schwartz paid her respects Tuesday (Arts Desk)

Last week, city officials cut the ribbon on a new cafe and sundry store in the new D.C. government building in Ward 7, next to the Minnesota Avenue Metro station. Like many retail facilities on government property, the “Deanwood Cafe” is staffed by blind vendors in keeping with the eight-decade-old mandates of the federal Randolph-Sheppard Act.

While blind vending sites are fairly common in federal government facilities, this is the first one on D.C. government property in more than 20 years. It’s operated by Kenneth Smith — a native Washingtonian, Anacostia High and UDC graduate who’s a veteran in the local blind vending community.

But us journalists can’t help finding the dark side of a feel-good story. Troublemaking Post reporter Paul Schwartzman stopped by the cafe Tuesday and found that among the items on offer — besides the Uno’s pizza and Seattle’s Best coffee — were rolling papers.

On sale at mart inside DC Dept. of Employment Svces HQ in NE: Rolling paper. As in Big Bambu. New productivity initiative?

— paul schwartzman (@paulschwartzman) May 29, 2012

Terry/Smith ’12 (Randall Terry for President) Via Christian Wire today comes news that Randall Terry, the no-holds-barred anti-abortion activist turned Democratic presidential candidate, has selected D.C. resident Missy Reilly Smith as his running mate.

Washingtonians and local TV viewers might know Smith from her 2010 Republican run against Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) for D.C. congressional delegate, during which Smith aired TV ads featuring graphic depictions of aborted fetuses.

That campaign was inspired by Terry and largely funded by his network of activists. It was, in fact, a test run for the national campaign Terry is now waging with the stated intent of airing graphic abortion ads across the country.

Library trustees prepare to vote at Wednesday’s meeting. (John Muller) First it was the Washington Highlands library. Then it was the Bellevue library. Then it was the William O. Lockridge Library at Bellevue. Now it’s the Bellevue library again. But it’s not likely to stay that way long.

The monthslong saga over the naming of a new $15 million D.C. Public Library branch in far Southwest has deepened, weeks ahead of a scheduled ribbon-cutting. The library’s board of trustees voted last Wednesday to undo a D.C. Council vote naming the facility after Lockridge, a community activist and school board member who died in January 2011.

That vote goes against the wishes of Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), who voiced support for the Lockridge naming shortly after his death, and the D.C. Council, which voted in December to overturn the board’s previous choice of Bellevue and add Lockridge’s name.

John Muller, a writer and friend of the blog who has followed the library controversy closely, reported on a lively debate at last Wednesday’s board meeting before voting to ditch Lockridge’s name and restore the name it had previously favored — simply “Bellevue,” after the name of the surrounding neighborhood.

“Brown was dressed for his farewell the way he almost always dressed...” (Photo by Chip Py for The Brown Family) Thousands lined up outside the Howard Theatre on Tuesday to file past Chuck Brown’s casket and bid the Godfather of Go-Go farewell. From the Post report: “Outside the Howard, it was a street festival, a celebration of a cultural legend set to the only sensible soundtrack. . . . Inside, the atmosphere was far more funereal: A hushed mix of the singer’s jazz ballads burbled over the sound system as the crowd — largely black, and older than it was younger — quietly streamed into the theater, single file.” More from HuffPo, City Paper, Arts Desk, Examiner.

In other news:

Some custom emergency no parking signs for the Chuckster (@Rizzz)

Vincent Gray to announce joint public-charter school athletics structure (Examiner)

More mixed-use planned for Nationals Park environs (JDLand)

Capital Bikeshare = creeping socialism (WaTimes)

While we’re speculating ... (Loose Lips, G’town Dish)