Archive for July, 2008
Tennis Opens Up Downtown
In early May, we reported on the Washington Kastles tennis team taking over the Center City Parking Lot for the summer season. WaPo has a nice write up about the home opener last night with Serena Williams. Sounds like it was another downtown hit!
Howto: Finding (Cheap?) Gas
Despite having a decidedly less expensive BMW lifestyle (bus/bike-Metro-walk) living in the PQ, there is sometimes a need for that occasional spin out to a wine festival with friends or a BJ’s run to pick up quantities of food or a command appearance at a party in Reston (ghast!). And for that, you need gas…petrol…juice. […]
Fringe Festival Gearing Up…Starts Thursday
Fan of the unjuried, the unusual and the offbeat? This town will be right for you for the next couple of weeks as the 3rd annual incarnation of the Capital Fringe Festival is set to open the day after tomorrow, July 10, and run until July 27. Many of the events take place in downtown […]
Intercity Buses Don’t Have To Move…Just Yet
The original plan to move the loading and unloading of all the intercity bus companies that pick up and drop off downtown to L’Enfant Plaza has been scuttled by DDOT for now according to a WaPo article. The article cites safety, convenience and logistical concerns on the part of some of the bus companies that […]