Good morning . The cherry blossoms have reached the Florets Extended stage of things . Rain and gusts possible this afternoon with a high around 73. It’ll rain tonight, too, with a low around 37. The Capitals host Philadelphia tonight, and you may peruse a March Madness schedule here . You can find me on Bluesky , I’m @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address at the bottom of this post.

I can’t stop listening to:

Dystaron , “ Voyager .” Dystaron, whose members’ résumés include Frodus, Rah Bras, and Corn Rocket, are almost certainly DC’s heaviest synth band. I particularly that their website appears to be simply a static page with their logo, which is extremely metal and I hope they never change it. Dystaron play the Atlantis tonight , opening for Refused.

Here’s some administration news you might have blocked out:

• Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner said he would step down. Musk has agitated for privatizing the railroad. ( CNN ) ( I interviewed Gardner , who also plays bass for local indie-rock greats Lorelei, last year.)

Hidden Eats, by Ike Allen

It would be wrong to describe Blue & White Carryout , an eye-catchingly ramshackle hutch of a restaurant which has been occupying the same prominent corner on US-1 in Alexandria since some time in the 1950s, as “hidden.” Fifty years ago, it wouldn’t have even been much to write home about. But with each passing year, it looks more and more gloriously incongruous— and seems to come closer to fully caving into the ground. It’s one of the strangest restaurant buildings around: a minuscule griddle with wooden plank counters and buckling clapboard siding that doesn’t so much create an indoor space as simply enclose a bit of Alexandria sidewalk to serve as the floor. The crunchy, subtly seasoned fried chicken here, tucked between two pieces of white bread and slathered with hot sauce, is hard to beat. And Blue & White’s prices are also from yesteryear— $4.75 for a fried chicken breast sandwich. $4 for a bacon-and-egg breakfast roll. $3.75 for a half smoke. Cash only, of course.

Recently on Washingtonian dot com:

• A profile of Ilia Malinin , George Mason student and figure-skating phenom .

• Spark Social House has opened. It’s an alcohol-free gay bar housed in the Gibson’s old space.

• Here are bars and restaurants where you can watch March Madness .

• My Little Chamomile, a new restaurant from the owner of Green Almond Pantry that will offer Turkish-Mediterranean homestyle cooking , will open in a Georgetown alley tonight.

Local news links:

Thursday’s event picks:

• The Environmental Film Festival kicks off with the DC premiere of the documentary “ The White House Effect .”

• Honor Stumpy (RIP) at a paddle boat race in its honor.

• The water taxi ‘s cherry blossom tours begin.

See more picks from Briana Thomas , who writes our Things to Do newsletter .

Did you miss our 100 Very Best Restaurants List? It’s here .

Wow, that’s a lot. Let’s get through Thursday.