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Second Tier Tourist Attractions
DC has lots of famous tourist attractions: the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the much maligned carousel. Pick up any DC guidebook and you’ll find plenty of places where you’ll want to have your photo taken. But there are other attractions we see tourists drawn to as well. Take the upside-down bike lane sign next to the FBI [...]
Guardian Angels Patrol PQ On Saturdays
If you are subscribed to the Metropolitan Police Department’s First District (MPD 1D) yahoo email list, you may have been noticing patrol reports from our local Guardian Angels group. The group usually patrols the area of 7th Street NW between E and H Street on Saturdays (and sometimes Friday). It is interesting to read the [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Dupont – The National Building Museum declares Dupont Circle to be a great green space. [The 42 (Bus)] 14th Street – Show review of Antonio Parker, jazz saxophonist, at HR-57. [14th and You] Near Galludet U. – Rowhouse turned into drive through. Verb used: impales. [Frozen Tropics]
Ford’s Theatre Welcomes Neighborhood With Discount Performances
Ford’s Theatre got in touch with PQ Living to let us know they are offering discounts to the neighborhood on an as-available basis for this weekend’s performances of the play The Civil War. To get access to the discount, use the promo code PENNQUARTER online at Ticketmaster or over the phone at (202) 397-SEAT. Limited availability tickets are available [...]
FreshFarm Earth Day Benefit To Kick Off Poste Patio Season
The Poste Moderne Brasserie patio (555 8th Street, NW), formally known as The Garden at Poste, will kick of their patio season this week by hosting a garden party on Earth Day, Wednesday April 22 from 5 pm to 7 pm, with the admittance fee benefitting FreshFarm Markets. The $5 admittance fee will be donated to [...]
Chevy Chase Needs Claritin
Or so we heard. Repeatedly. While we were using the self-checkout at CVS today on 8th street, we were privy to one side of a very loud cell phone conversation. There were many customers in the regular checkout line and one of them was excited. So everyone in the store got to hear a one-sided cell phone conversation [...]
Georgetown Law’s Theater Group – Performance Tonight!
A longtime PQL reader wanted to let us know about a student-run theater group called the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society at the Georgetown Law Center located just on the fringe of Penn Quarter at 600 New Jersey Ave, NW. Tonight is the last night of their current show, titled Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore. It is [...]
An Enjoyable Laughing Man Tavern (1306 G St NW)
Replacing the much loved and long running Reeves Bakery, the Laughing Man Tavern is open for business at 1306 G Street, NW. Brought to you by the same group that runs Rocket Bar (714 7th Street NW), the District Grill (1201 K Street NW) and will run the yet-to-be-opened Iron Horse Tavern (509 7th Street [...]
Filmfest DC Opens Tonight – Six Film Venues In PQ!
Filmfest DC 2009 hosts its opening gala tonight @ 7pm at the Harman Center for the Arts, otherwise known as the beautiful new Shakespeare Theatre. The eleven day festival endeavors to look inside other cultures from the perspective of those who live there rather than through our media. This year’s festival focuses in on two geographic areas: Eastern Europe [...]
Where The Sidewalk [No Longer] Ends
Last week the gods of construction smiled upon us as they opened up the long closed off sidewalks on 11th & 12th Streets NW between F & G. The northern side of F Street between 11th & 12th was also opened. For what has seemed like an eternity these three sidewalk closures have been a [...]
