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Lou Lou Boutique Opens On F St NW
UPDATE (July 2): The hours for the Penn Quarter Lou Lou Boutique are: Mon-Sat 10 am – 8 pm and Sun 11 am - 6 pm. Their phone number is: 202-737-0545. Lou Lou Boutique in the Atlantic Building at 950 F St NW is now open although this location is not listed on their website yet. [...]
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! Downtown – The Hay-Adams hotel including its restaurant and its bar (Off The Record – one of our DC favs) is closed until October [...]
Affle Hop
As we noted in a tweet back on June 12th, the old Waffle Shop location has opened as yet another tourist merchandise store. We don’t know yet what happened to the planned (rumored?) PQ Tackle Box restaurant, we hope they still have plans for our neighborhood. On Saturday we noticed that most of the letters [...]
Neighborhood Pic: That Sauca Truck Is Everywhere
Food trucks, cafeterias on wheels if you will, seem to be sprouting up everywhere; the Sauca truck shown parked above on F Street NW at 7th Street had no shortage of lunch customers. There’s the Fojol Brothers, District Taco and Sauca trucks just to name the ones we can remember. The public can follow their [...]
Dana Ellyn’s BANNED Exhibit At MLK Library
Penn Quarter artist, Dana Ellyn, is currently showing a solo exhibit, BANNED, at the MLK Library (901 G St NW). While the paintings were hung yesterday, the official opening reception (free & open to the public) will be on Monday June 28th from 6:30-8pm at the library. The exhibit shows through July 31st. Each of [...]
Ward 6 Family Day This Saturday
Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells will host the 4th Annual Ward 6 Family Day this Saturday, June 26 from 1 to 4 pm on the Sherwood Recreation Center fields (640 10th St NE). From the web page: We will have free food from Harris Teeter, raffle prizes galore (Washington Nationals and gift certificates to many [...]
WaPo: Clyde’s Taking Over At 14th and F St NW
The Washington Post reported that the Borders at 14th and F St NW, formerly housing hometown retailer Garfinckels, will become a Clyde’s restaurant in 2011. The bookstore and media industries are undergoing significant change and while there was talk that TJ Maxx might have taken over the space from Borders, it looks like it will [...]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Photo: An entertaining and fun Festa Italiana yesterday at 3rd and F St NW. 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! Penn Quarter – The Safeway BBQ Battle heats up the [...]
Cribs XVII: Making A G-Man Envious
If you worked for the FBI, you could roll out of bed and into work if you lived in today’s crib. It’s right across the street from the brutalist style government HQ building in The Artisan at 915 E Street, NW (Unit 615). Like last week’s edition of Cribs, we’ve visited a floorplan similar to [...]
Neighborhood Pic: What’s On At Market
Even though you need to bring extra green to afford the goods, we love the Penn Quarter tradition of hitting the Farmer’s Market on 8th Street NW on Thursday afternoons for fresh, local products. This photo came from PQ Living’s flickr photo pool – the tag is pqliving. Photo credit: coolsneakers2000
