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Neighborhood Pic: Window Dressage
PQ Living hasn’t posted a Photo of the Week in a while so we’re going to retitle the series Neighborhood Pic. Regardless, this photo of an Urban Outfitters Ann Taylor Loft (707 7th St NW) employee touching up the window display caught our attention for its color texture and smile evoking nature. It made us [...]
Memorial Day Weekend Around PQ
The writers at Penn Quarter Living would like to wish all of our readers a safe and happy Memorial Day Weekend! For those of us who are taking a staycation this weekend, here are some things to do around PQ. Please leave a comment if you know of some other events and we’ll add them [...]
Forget Summer Reruns, Screen On The Green Returns
The Post and several blogs are reporting that HBO is bringing back it’s sponsorship (with partners including Comcast) of everyone’s favorite outdoor movie festival. The movement to Save Screen on the Green was a success, now bring on the Bond movies.
Ride Every Bus & Alight At Every Station
We’ve been meeting lots of other Washington DC neighborhoodies (see our DC Neighborhoods linklist in the right column) at various events around town recently and we’re always looking out for fun sites that might be relevant to downtown living that we can pass along to readers. We ride the 30s, X2, 80, L1/2/4 buses and [...]
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. Have neighborhood thoughts? Leave them in the comments! All Over DC – Will the vacant property tax make a comeback? [The Other 35 Percent] Downtown – The 2009 State of Downtown report [...]
Pitango Gelato Opens Their Doors (413 7th St NW)
Even though the press release indicates Pitango Gelato’s (413 7th St NW) opening today, the newest in chilly, organic desserts-to-go in our neighborhood opened yesterday afternoon where we found a bevy of customers in line. In an area where openings are sometimes measured in years, Pitango sprinted to an open from January to May of [...]
PQNA Breakfast Meeting This Tuesday – Downtown Zoning
The Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association (PQNA) will be hosting this month’s meeting on Tuesday, May 25 at the Landmark E Street Cinema (555 11th St NW). The details: Agenda Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 8:55am Announcements 9:00am Speaker 9:15am Guest Speaker The guest speaker will be Travis Parker. Travis is the leader of the DC Office [...]
Want An Open DC Government?
It’s coming up on that time again…election season is in the fall and this year we have the big one for DC, the mayoral election. Yard signs are a plenty even in the urban core we call downtown DC and the Penn Quarter. The DC Open Government Coalition, a group dedicated to promoting transparency in [...]
Restaurant Coming To 912 F ST?
We noticed a building permit taped to 912 F ST NW that looked interesting. Issued to Douglas Development, the description of work reads “Remove Existing Sub-Floor and Replace. Frame New Walls.” New sub-floor? New walls? Sounds like they might be getting ready for a new tenant. A search of the DCRA Permit database produced a [...]
Gifford’s On E Street NW Not Open For Now
UPDATE (May 19): We heard back from Gifford’s management and they said that one of their operating licenses lapsed and are in the process of renewing it. Assuming the city moves with intent, they expect to be open in 7 to 10 days with a better run store. They also said they are considering further [...]
