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Hong Kong Film Festival Begins Tonight At Freer|Sackler
One of our favorite DC film festivals begins this evening. The 17th Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival begins tonight and runs Fridays and Saturdays through August 19 at the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Gallery (1200 Jefferson Dr SW). The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Organization and the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries will screen seven [...]
RAMMY Award Winners Include Four Five PQ/Downtown Restos
DC foodies (including us) eagerly await the RAMMYs about this time of the year as it is the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington’s equivalent of the Oscars or the Grammys awarding accolades to the top restaurants in Washington for the year’s efforts. As usual, there was a slate of nominees from the Penn Quarter and [...]
Athletic Drinking
I’m not much of a sports fan, but even I can admit that gathering together at a neighborhood favorite with a bunch of die-hard sports fans makes drinking (and sports) more enjoyable. Here are just a few winning combinations to enjoy this week. Euro 2012 Semis: Spain vs. Portugal June 27 at 2:45pm Jaleo [...]
Penn Quarter/DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here. Our Flickr tag is pqliving. A lot happened this week in Penn Quarter this last week. Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments! Tips? Send them in confidentiality to: pqliving [at] gmail.com Penn [...]
Real Estate Corner: May’s PQ Market Data
MVTResident is a realtor in the Capitol Hill office of Long & Foster who lives in the Mount Vernon Triangle and is experienced with downtown DC real estate. Most buyers looking for condos in Penn Quarter become quickly aware of the fact that the inventory is not large. My company, Long and Foster, looks at [...]
Japanese Cocktail Bar Coming Under Fuel Pizza (6th and F St NW)
We now know what bar is planned for underneath the Fuel Pizza location at 6th and F St NW. Per the Washington CityPaper’s Young & Hungry blog, the co-owner of Sushiko, Daisuke Utagawa, plans to open a Japanese cocktail bar. Sushiko is the first sushi restaurant we ate at back in the day and it [...]
