Metro Section: Silver Linings and Clouds

* The downside of cherry blossom season: invasion of the tourists. Here's a clever plan for dealing with them. [ Rock Creek Rambler ]

* No joke: Ben Domenech is, at least in one respect, a very lucky man. His girlfriend could not be more devoted to him. [ adventures of christine via DCeiver ]

* The Radio-Television Correspondents Dinner was a lively event. But the after-party arms race may be dying down. [ WP ; FishBowlDC ]

* Where will the cantankerous Justice Scalia get his pizza a year from now? [ DCist ]

* The woman who posed as a Washington Post employee in order to commit identity theft has expensive tastes. [ WP ]