Editor’s note: Were you in suspense after reading Saturday night’s article about Lance Cpl. Matthew Rodgers on PostLocal.com? Here’s the rest of the story. The proclamation was in the mayor’s hands. The marching band, all warmed up. The firetruck and police cars stood on call. And Pinky and Pepe Rodgers were in their beer and wine store in the Kentlands shopping complex, wondering why their store was suddenly so crowded. Read full article > >

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For Gaithersburg Marine, a surprise homecoming

Long before an actor blurted out “Shakespeare!” from the stage of Harman Hall, we fully understood why a Washington theater company that bears the Bard’s name would give us a sweet concert version of the Rodgers and Hart musical “The Boys From Syracuse.” Taking its plot and characters from Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors,” the show was Shakespeare Theatre Company’s inaugural attempt at replicating, with an Elizabethan wink, New York’s highly successful and widely imitated Encores! concert series, which regularly blows the dust off vintage (and sometimes not-so-vintage) musicals. Read full article > >

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‘Boys from Syracuse’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) gets it right when talking about the budget’s ratio of revenues and borrowing.

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A budget analogy that earns a Geppetto checkmark