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Penn Ave Photo Essay
Today’s Sunday magazine in WaPo has a photo essay on Pennsylvania Avenue. We especially liked the Attack of the Segways photo online at selection 8.
Carbon Emissions In DC (pic)
The world’s climate is getting a lot of media and public mindshare these days. Al Gore, former US Vice President, has made a new career out of it. We all use energy in various forms and we thought it would be worth pointing out a nifty online tool that you, the reader, can use to see exactly [...]
Ho? Ho! Ho???
Walking around the city last night we noticed that some jokers at the Caucus Room had Dasher & Vixen playing reindeer games in one of the restaurant’s 9th Street windows. Not the most creative holiday window display we’ve seen this year, but to borrow a phrase: we report, you decide.
What To Put On The DC Coin?
The Post has a story this morning about how DC (and Puerto Rico, and Guam, and…) will get a “State” quarter in 2009. No design has been finalized & according to the article Mayor Fenty says the design will include “maximum resident input.” So what would our fellow PQ’ers put on the coin? Electronic [...]
MLK Library to become a Bloomingdale’s?
DCist has an interesting post about the possibility of the MLK Public Library becoming a Bloomingdale’s. Apparently, the chain has been searching for a new location within the District proper. DCist declares this possibility “a bad idea” but luckily, “a bad idea that is unlikely to come to pass.”
Old Convention Center Redevelopment Financing Announced
Yesterday, the Washington Business Journal reported on the more technical aspects of the Old Convention Center redevelopment plan and the associated $850 million financing (City, developers agree on financing plan for old convention site – WBJ). There’s a 57,300 square foot plot on the site the city is retaining control over and our read of [...]
Bistro D’OC Opens 2nd Bar Upstairs
Back in October we reported that Bistro D’OC had added “Wine Bar” to their window display, well on Friday we discovered that they’ve opened a second bar upstairs to complete the Wine Bar transition. Although not advertised well from the outside, Bistro D’OC now has a wine bar upstairs complete with a more diverse wine [...]
Bed, Bath and Beyond Saves Blogger From Herself
When you live in Penn Quarter, it’s the small details that you relish. The perfect Chai Tea from Teaism. The view from the rooftop pool on a sunny summer day. The newest “must read” from Olsson’s. But it’s also the little things that drive you nuts. And for me, the one little thing that made [...]
Wayback: Center Market, As It Was
Today we’re flipping on the PQ Living Wayback Machine and turning back the clock to 1871 when construction on Washington’s largest market started. Between 1871 and 1931, the Center Market was the largest market in Washington, DC and it allowed for up to 700 vendors to sell their goods indoors and out. It stood on Pennsylvania Avenue [...]
Nordstrom’s Downtown? Might It Happen?
12/16 UPDATE : The Mayor will deliver his remarks on the old Convention Center redevelopment at 10:30 am on Monday, December 17. On Monday, Mayor Fenty will hold a press conference at the 10 acre old convention center site bounded by H Street, New York Avenue, 9th Street and 11th Street, NW. Channel 4 (NBC) reported the following: On [...]
