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Happy Halloween – Toil and Trouble
I hope you all survived Hurricane Sandy without too much trouble. Despite all of the toil to prepare, our neighborhood was relatively lucky compared to others in our region. Help those impacted by the storm by donating some of the extra canned goods you bought before the storm, volunteering to serve meals at one of [...]
Hurricane Sandy Comes To DC…Penn Quarter Closures
Hurricane Sandy is moving in to the DC area and much of the government and public transportation are shut down. Here in Penn Quarter a number of our neighborhood’s restaurants and businesses announced their plans on their Twitter feeds. The ones we saw so far are listed below and two of the hotel chains we saw [...]
“Help” Pop Up Store Coming To Old Waffle Shop Space (522 10th St NW)
The decal for the Help shop, a company specializing in simplified retail pharmaceuticals, went up in the old Waffle Shop space at 522 10th St NW across the street from Ford’s Theatre and PQ Living’s Columbo was on the scene to capture the newly decorated window (photo above). Help is a pop-up store that will [...]
Town Hall Meeting Tonight On Better Use Of DC’s Parks
Congresswoman Eleanor Norton will be hosting a town hall meeting this evening [PDF] to talk about our city’s parks with an array of stakeholders from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Wilson Building (aka City Hall) in room 412 . Many of our city’s parks are actually owned and administered by the National Park Service, [...]
History on Foot: Knights of Pythias
Have you ever noticed this plaque outside the FBI Building on E street between 9th and 10th Streets? On this site, the Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias was founded in February 1864. The Knights of Pythias was the first American Order ever chartered by an Act of the Congress of the United States. The [...]
Penn Quarter/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 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 Photo above: Sunset over E St NW ——————————— Penn Quarter - Jose Andres’ Think Food Group sells its [...]
