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What Do You Get When You Cross A…
As we were walking the streets of Penn Quarter yesterday morning, we noticed a man using a strange looking contraption on the sidewalk. It looked like a cross between a vacuum, leaf blower and a smoke machine. After some google searching, we found the device: a gum removal machine. Here’s a fun youtube video of [...]
Montreal Canadiens Dispatch Washington Capitals To The Links
Al Koken, Comcast SportsNet broadcaster for the Capitals, has gray hair these days but it may not be because he’s been broadcasting Caps hockey since the Channel 20 (WDCA) days. The more likely explanation is games like last night’s dismissal of the Washington Capitals from the playoffs by the Montreal Canadiens in a 2-1, Game [...]
Old Faithful
Walking the streets of PQ after a heavy rain can be a treacherous outing. While the threat of oversized umbrellas has subsided, there still exists a weapon of stealth to deal with: the sidewalk mine. Those slabs of slate, brick, or asphalt tile that make up PQ’s sidewalks are for the most part smooth and comfortable. [...]
Penn Quarter Sports Tavern Has Caps Spirit
The Washington Capitals can put away the Montreal Canadiens tonight with a victory at the Bell Centre in Montreal and advance to the next round of the National Hockey League playoffs. We’re not so sure that three one goal games with two of them going into overtime is what we had in mind from a [...]
Cribs XIV: Deluxe On Mass Ave
Empty no longer, the condo formerly known as the Dumont Condos was purchased by Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust, for $167M that wasted no time getting it ready for leasing to tenants as 425 Mass (425 Massachusetts Ave NW). The leasing website is up so we decided to dig into the numbers. By [...]
Smithsonian Gets Courtyard Roof Washing
Yesterday morning, we spotted workers cleaning the courtyard roof of the Smithsonian Reynolds Center (AKA the building housing the American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery). No doubt, days will seem much brighter in the courtyard this summer! We just wish the Courtyard Cafe and Portico Cafe were open later than the 6:30pm and 5pm closing [...]
Poste Brasserie Patio Opening & Earth Day Celebration Today
Poste Moderne Brasserie (555 8th Street NW) let us know that they’re opening their patio this afternoon for the season for full service and throwing a backyard bash in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Bev Eggleston of Eco Friendly Foods will provide a 400 pound pig which Chef Robert Weland and his team [...]
PQNA Breakfast Meeting Wednesday At Madame Tussauds
The PQNA is hosting its monthly breakfast meeting at Madame Tussauds (side entrance on 10th between F & G St NW) Wednesday morning starting at 8:30am. The guest speaker will be James Hughes, the Senior Director for Strategic Planning @ WMATA (Metro). He will talk about potential changes to Metro and Metrobus service (i.e. reducing [...]
Retail Space Comes To 700 6th St NW
A long while ago, we discussed how unfortunate it was for the yet-to-be-built 700 6th St NW office building to not guarantee any ground floor retail in its plan. The project’s website mentioned 1st floor retail or office, making us expect for the worst: a single-use building amongst our mostly mixed-use neighborhood. Well, we are pleased to [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Sound off about anything neighborhood oriented in the comments. Downtown – The Niki de Saint Phalle sculptures in the median of New York Avenue are installed. Public art is pleasant! [The Triangle] [...]
