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Shopping With Your Pooch In PQ
Last month MVTResident told us about all the restaurants in PQ that would let you dine with your four legged friend. We thought this time we’d take a look at other PQ businesses that allow you to shop with your pup. We’ve mentioned them before, but TD Bank (formerly Commerce Bank) at 901 7th ST [...]
Downtown Holiday Market Starts Friday
Every year it’s gotten better…the Downtown Holiday Market is in its fourth year and it will begin this upcoming Friday, December 5 and run through Tuesday, December 23 from Noon to 8 pm daily in our very own PQ Plaza on F Street NW between 9th and 10th 7th and 9th Streets NW. My shopping list is [...]
Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
We didn’t get in our Heard In The ‘Hood roundup last Monday so we present this week’s edition today. The next Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood will be on December 8. Penn Quarter – The Lee Loo Lounge which opened for busines earlier this year at 521 G Street NW appears to be on its [...]
Singer McKnight Helps Macy’s Light Up Holiday Windows *updated*
UPDATED – Nov 29: We added a few YouTube links with more of McKnight’s performance. Black Friday, the day retail stores are supposed to push into profitability for the year due to the surge of shopping for the holidays, arrived today. This year retailers may be more aggressive than last in soliciting business. This writer [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
The writers at Penn Quarter Living would like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving Dinner In PQ
Prefer to go out for your Thanksgiving dinner? There are a number of PQ area restaurants open for your dining pleasure. Although honestly, in composing this list (and having to visit so many restaurant websites), it’s tempting to never visit them again until they create pages that are not flash based and don’t assume we [...]
PQ Building Permit Update
Probably part of the 600 Mass development 11/17/2008 Permit # R0900040 627 I ST NW Raze SQUARE 452 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP TO RAZE A 2 STORY BRICK AND BLOCK. FORMER RESTAURANT. 11/18/2008 Permit # AH0900066 519 H ST NW After Hours Permit CHINATOWN 519, LLC AFTER HOURS PERMIT FOR PERMIT PA-38785 MON THRU FRI 7PM-4AM 11-18-08 [...]
For Inaugural, Metro Will Close PQ Station
Penn Quarter will be ground-zero for events surrounding the Inaurguration. And with the city expecting millions of visitors, security is a big concern. On Friday, Metro released it’s Inauguration Day plan to get all the visitors to their destination safely and efficiently. And the plan contains one provision that will impact Penn Quarter residents who [...]
Ford’s Theatre To Reopen Feb 2009
After 18 months of downtime, construction fences, banging and hammering, Ford’s Theatre (511 10th St, NW) is set to host its reopening celebration starting February 11, 2009. We’re very eager to check out the newly installed seats! A few highlights of that first week follow: Feb 11 – Grand reopening celebration – George Lucas to [...]
A Movie To Drive Away The Sunday Blues
In the summer of 2007 we wrote about breaking the Sunday blues by embracing PQ comfort foods. While we think that approach still works well, there’s another way to help fight the blues: movies. But in these tough economic times, you can get the blues just by having to pay the price of admission. Happily [...]
