Off Limits

Scene and herd: The scene looked like something out of New Orleans -- only a lot less smelly. By last Friday morning, the line of eager shoppers determined to be first into Sniagrab on Saturday morning stretched from the entrance of Gart's Sportscastle along Tenth Avenue and then up Lincoln Street. Many people came equipped with tents, but bonus points to the fellows who had their plaid couch in place on Broadway before dawn on Thursday.... The convenience store across Washington Street from Argonaut is back in business, this time as the Capital Hill Market. Among other things, it's peddling inadvertent nostalgia: The old gas signs remain, offering unleaded at $1.18 a gallon.