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The Bus As The Preferred Mode Of Travel
This is the first time we’ve ever seen the new BoltBus service have a line more than about 10 people deep. Friday afternoon around 2 pm we caught a line a block long waiting to board this NY bound bus. Sure Memorial Day weekend probably played a big role here, but we wondered if there were [...]
Shakespeare Theater Takes Hamlet To The Park (Free!)
Our PQ neighbor, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, just began its annual Free For All production. This year, they are showing Michael Kahn’s production of “Hamlet” at Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Rock Creek Park. The free production runs under the stars from May 22-June 1, at 7:30 p.m. nightly (no performance Mondays). We saw this show [...]
Crime & Punishment Museum Open *pic*
Thanks to PQL reader, Darrin, for sending in this pic of McGruff the Crime Dog outside of the freshly opened Crime & Punishment Museum (575 7th St NW)! You can also check out yesterday’s post on the museum.
Jazz In The Garden Starts Tonight!
One of our favorite things to do when the weather gets nice is hit up the Sculpture Garden’s Jazz In The Garden after work on Fridays. The National Gallery of Art gives the Sculpture Garden an outdoorsy European cafe feel every Friday afternoon by pulling in a jazz, blues or swing band act to play in [...]
Crime & Punishment Museum Opens Tomorrow (575 7th St NW)
Ed. Note: Check out crime fighting dog McGruff giving his thumbs up to the camera on opening day. The National Museum of Crime and Punishment (575 7th Street, NW) opens to the public tomorrow, Friday, May 23. Opening day tickets will be half price for regular folks and free for law enforcement personnel (badge or [...]
L’Occitane Coming To F Street! (931 F St NW)
Developers continue to fill out the 900 block of F Street. Continuing the trend of lining the block with boutique stores, we find that L’Occitane just had permits approved to build out its third store in DC (Union Station and Georgetown are the other locations). 05/13/08 931 F ST NW $250,000.00 INTERIOR RENOVATION TO RETAIL [...]
