Crabcakes in the neighborhood. (Astrid Riecken - FOR THE WASHINGTON POST) How do you know your D.C. neighborhood is changing? When the local fish-fry joint changes its name from “Fish in the ’Hood” to “Fish in the Neighborhood.” The Post’s Emily Wax reports from Park View.

In other news:

This time tomorrow, Kenyan McDuffie will be a D.C. Council member (AP)

The good news: D.C.’s unemployment rate is lower. The bad news: D.C. residents are no longer eligible for extended federal benefits. (D.C. Wire)

Why a Wegmans could work in D.C. (Housing Complex)

A narrowing of options for the Virginia Avenue rail tunnel project (JDLand)

One last look at Chuck Brown (@jfdulac)

The chic 14th Street NW eatery is where Gray may have become directly involved in illicit dealings. (SUSAN BIDDLE - FOR THE WASHINGTON POST) Last week’s guilty pleas in the federal investigation of Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign have not directly implicated the mayor, but have prompted much speculation among chatterers (including yours truly) on whether or not they will actually touch the mayor directly.

And thus far, the speculation is, well, speculation. It’s stuff like: Vince Gray is a meticulous, detail-oriented guy — how could he have not known about the scheme? Or noting that Thomas Gore, de facto campaign treasurer and now admitted notebook-shredder, is a trusted friend of Gray’s who wouldn’t have done anything without his good buddy’s okay. And so forth.

But setting that speculation aside, charging documents have not named Gray as participating in the scheme to pay fringe candidate Sulaimon Brown in any way. They have, however, largely vindicated Brown’s version of events. And Brown’s version of events has Gray playing a personal role in the scheme during a meeting on Aug. 4, 2010, at the Eatonville restaurant.

Last week was a tough one for the District of Columbia, with federal indictments and such. So WRC-TV’s Jim Vance gives us a pep talk: “I am disgusted and embarrassed by the recent revelation of campaign skullduggery; it was wrong and probably stupid,” said the veteran news anchor. But, Vance adds, every other indicator of urban life is headed in the right direction: “We have come an awfully long way from days of darkness to a city of light and energy — energy that won’t be dissipated by the likes of Howard Brooks or Harry Thomas.”

In other news:

Mayor Vincent Gray’s problems have potential rivals smelling opportunity (Post)

Colby King: Prosecuted Gray aides “helped perpetrate an unpardonable act of deception on our city” (Post column)

Bob McCartney: “If [Gray] continues to refuse to explain to District voters what went wrong in his 2010 campaign, then he needs to resign.” (Post column)

How 72 years can change a city (WaTimes)

Woman said to have ordered young son to steal cell phone in Columbia Heights (Post)

A city cannot live by Beach Bars alone. (Fritz Hahn - The Washington Post) Our city has changed. It’s a “magnet for ambitious 20-somethings.” It offers “good jobs and better-than-average public transit,” not to mention cupcake shops. It’s “an urban playground.” So notes my colleague Jonathan O’Connell, who asks an accompanying question in a Sunday Outlook piece: Can the city change along with its ambitious 20-somethings? “What D.C. hasn’t yet figured out, or even really planned for, is what happens when this raft of newcomers grows out of one-bedroom condo living,” he writes. “What happens when their lives evolve past the urban-playground stage and they are less interested in speakeasies than in parks for their kids?”

In other news:

Marion Barry exacts incomplete revenge on erstwhile supporter (Loose Lips)

He misspoke. He should have said Polish. (D.C. Wire)

“Perhaps it’s time we started to look at him as a sweet old fellow who just says whatever comes to mind.” (Washingtonian)

D.C. is still suing Don Peebles over Anacostia building’s rent (WBJ)

Mark Segraves’s final interview with Chuck Brown (DC50)

Uber’s promise of a “cheap, classy ride” has been dogged by regulatory questions. (Bill O'Leary - The Washington Post)

You’ll recall early this year when this town was consumed by talk of Uber — the upscale app-dispatched car service — that was the subject of a sting operation by city taxi inspectors.

Uber and its moment of government oppression became the stuff of national ruminations on innovation and regulation (and, more recently, urban decadence).

Through it all, Uber has carried on with its service, maintaining that it’s following all applicable laws and regulations, while the D.C. Taxicab Commission has more or less adopted a policy of salutary neglect.

It now seems, however, that Uber could become uber-legal relatively soon under draft legislation recently passed by a D.C. Council committee. The bill, a rewrite of a broad taxi reform package, includes provisions for a new type of for-hire transportation — “sedan class vehicles.”