Archive for February, 2008
Pyle Photo Comes to Penn Quarter!
What made national news on Monday also makes for local news for Penn Quarter residents. The newly discovered photo of famed WW2 reporter, Ernie Pyle, was all over the papers. And, according to the this FoxNews article, one of the owners of the mint-condition photo print will make his print available to the Newseum (555 Penn Ave NW)! Margaret […]
Is This Flora Fit For Mukasey?
We’ve highlighted the FBI enough for a while (seriously, you can stop tapping our phones) so we now turn our attentions to the DOJ building across the street. How does a fortress of power like the DOJ like to present itself?
Annoying Billboards At 7th & H St Featured In The WaPo
The Washington Post featured the billboards at 7th & H St in their Sunday Metro section, titled The Sound and the Fury. The main point of the article is that the sound of the ads is annoying to everyone in the neighborhood, except for the guy making money off of them. The article also states […]
Sightlines: US Treasury to Union Station
With the winter removal of the opaque construction fence on the southwest corner of the American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery block, a fifteen street sightline along F Street was restored from the US Department of the Treasury on the west (top photo) to Union Station on the east (bottom photo). That’s progress by any name.