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PQNA Breakfast Meeting Next Thurs At The Crime & Punishment Museum
The Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association will be having it’s next Breakfast Meeting at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment on July 31. The museum is located at 575 7th St NW. An abbreviated museum tour will take place at 8:15am, with the full tour beginning at 9:35am. Meeting Schedule 8:15 – 8:40 Continental breakfast; [...]
New Poll: Eating Out Downtown
We’ve got a new poll going in the right hand column of Penn Quarter Living so take a moment to check it out and mark down your answer. For our next poll, we’d like to get a sense of the community’s dining out habits. With a plethora of options from Indian to Asian to American [...]
Free Chicken At McDonald’s Today
(Ed. Note: These signs were up Saturday through Monday, but came down on Tuesday) We think these signs might really there to keep dogs out of the flowers, but free food is free food. Buy a medium or large drink today at McDonald’s (at least the McDonalds on E Street between 9th & 10th) and you [...]
Franklin Homeless On The Way Out?
While lunching at the 11th and NY Ave Subway two months ago, this writer chatted with a homeless man named Richard, a down on his luck guy dressed in worn khakis and a white oxford, cell phone on his belt. He definitely was not a benchcamper yelling obscenities surrounded by a thousand bags, a nasty [...]
Does Your Dog Bite?
Perhaps if the dog had been wearing an ID tag Inspector Clouseau would have never been bitten. The Penn Quarter doesn’t have any pet stores, but one local business will at least sell you a dog [ID] tag. We discovered recently that Madame Tussauds has an ID tag machine located in their group entrance (10th street [...]
Platinum Open Again On Saturdays
Walking down F St Saturday night around 6 pm, we saw lots of people crowding around platinum while metal crowd barriers were being set up. We wondered what was going on (auditions? club opening?). Taking a walk Sunday morning we found numerous ads on the ground around F Street for Club Bounce: The Ultimate 18 [...]
