Archive for April, 2011
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Penn Quarter’s Fiola – Open And Delicious
Editor’s Note: We wish to introduce a new guest writer, KT, to Penn Quarter Living. The buzz of Fabio Trabocchi’s much anticipated new restaurant Fiola, in DC’s Penn Quarter lives up to the hype. Upon entering the former Le Paradou space at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, you are greeted by sparkling gold tiles accenting the [...]
Valuable Vacancies
Sure it’s a basement location, but one that is attached to the Warner Theatre, catty-corner to Freedom Plaza, and just blocks to the National Mall and the White House. Yet somehow the old Bluepoint (and even older John Harvard’s) space at 1299 Penn Ave NW is still vacant more than one year later. This seems [...]
Going On Six Years/Like To Write?
A milestone passed by that we failed to acknowledge and that is the five year anniversary of Penn Quarter Living. It’s hard to believe, but the first post from gpliving was on February 7, 2006 about a listening session at the MLK Library. Another post that same day was about the opening of the newly [...]
DC Special Election Tomorrow
The Special Election for a single At-Large Member of the Council in the District of Columbia is taking place tomorrow, April 26, and DC’s Board of Elections and Ethics (DCBOEE) has all the information you need on their website to ensure your are able to vote. The Ward 4 and Ward 8 Members for the [...]
Andrew’s Ties Windsors Penn Quarter Location (1155 F St NW)
As we were on a neighborhood stroll, we noticed that a new store had sashayed into downtown DC without us noticing. Andrew’s Ties (1155 F St NW, next to Pret A Manger) has been open for several weeks, but the only online reference that we could find was a March 2011 blurb in the Downtown [...]
