The heat beats you in Georgetown

It's a "cooler" day today than Wednesday, with temperatures in the muggy mid-90s, but D.C.—and Georgetown—is still sweating bullets.

But some changes at the fancy-pants 1789 restaurant will help you stay cool. 1789 has relaxed its jackets-required rule. We Love DC's Ashley (who quips that she'd still "prefer if someone fed me ice cream while sitting in a meat locker" to a heavy meal in a gourmet restaurant) writes that jackets for men are now merely suggested. The famed Georgetown dining destination has also switched up its menu, organizing its dishes by type ("Gifts of the Sea" and "From the Fields" versus appetizers and entrees).

Still, it's hot enough that you shouldn't take a Georgetown Cupcake outside. The LA Times spoke to Ben Healy and Jennifer Onley, recent transplants to D.C. who bought one of their famous confections, only to have the frosting on top melt into sugar and butter before he could find a bench to sit and eat it on.

Yesterday, Pepco issued a plea to D.C.'s denizens to conserve energy this week between the peak hours of 3 p.m. ot 7 p.m. "if health permits" to make sure there was enough power to go around. A Pepco employee said that there haven't been any brownouts reported in the Georgetown area, but they are plaguing many parts of the City. Check out Pepco's outage map to keep an eye on your block.

And elsewhere in the District, a WTOP reporter grilled hotdogs on his dashboard and the Washington Post tried to see whether it could melt an intern.