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Lunch Happenings At MLK
DC’s central library, the Martin Luther King Library at 9th and G Streets, has a few lunch happenings we wanted to tell you about.
Today at noon Luís Garay’s percussion ensemble will be performing in front of the Martin Luther King Library. The stage is just to the right of the MLK entrance. Seating is available but [...]
Street Sense’s Little Helpers
Walking through downtown today we noticed the Street Sense vendors were a lot younger than we’d remembered. Talking to these kids we found out they’re part of a church group from Leesburg, VA in downtown to sell the papers today. The kids in the photo were at 12th & F, but we’ve seen others all over [...]
Asylum Skate Shop To Be Replaced By Unnamed Fresh Casual Food Establishment
This info came straight from the leasing agent of 819 7th St NW. The agent is currently in negotiations with an unnamed fresh casual food establishment!
MSN Guiding Diners to Penn Quarter
Recently, Gayot.com, “the internet’s guide to the good life,” published a list of the District’s “Hot 10 Restaurants”. And the reviewers at Gayot clearly took a liking to the Penn Quarter neighborhood. Of the 10 spots on the list, five are occupied by Penn Quarter favorites.
The featured restaurants are Cafe Atlantico (3rd), Central [...]
Exercise Man Profile
Our most recent poll is about neighborhood personalities and currently at the head of the pack is Exercise Man. If you don’t know who Exercise Man is or have never seen him, we’ve compiled a list of clips and resources for you to check out. Exercise Man’s real name is Cedric Givens and he lives on Capitol [...]
DC Adoption & Foster Care Lunch Seminar At MLK Library (8/29)
The DC Child and Family Services Agency (400 6th St. SW) wanted to let PQ residents know about an adoption and foster care seminar at the MLK Library (9th & G St NW) tomorrow:
The seminar will be held at MLK Library (9th & G st.) on August 29, 12:30pm – 1:30pm. The seminar topic is [...]
Downtown In The 70s
We have one word for you. Lapels.
Newseum Restaurant, The Source, Opens In October + Newseum Residences Info
Thanks to Cheryl for sending along info that, even though the Newseum opening has been postponed until next year, the first floor Wolfgang Puck restaurant will be opening in October!
Chef Scott Drewno, the executive chef at Wolfgang Puck’s new restaurant, The Source, which opens at the Newseum this October, will offer American cuisine with Asian [...]
DC Taxi Cab Shortage Expected Next Week Through September
Unless you read The Diary of Mad DC Cabbie, you probably wouldn’t expect a cab shortage in September. But, here is Mad’s logic: 1) More than half of the 8000 DC cab drivers are of Ethiopian descent, 2) September 11th will be Ethiopia’s year 2000 celebration, and 3) many of these cab drivers are planning to go to [...]
Bluepoint Restaurant (1299 Penn Ave NW) Now Open
Thanks go out to a reader, “jag,” for alerting us that the Bluepoint Restaurant at 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (really 13th Street around the corner from E Street) is now open. They opened on August 13, are next to the Warner Theatre and have steak, seafood and martinis prominently displayed on the window sized menu [...]