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More Muse Lounge Opening Info (717 6th St NW)
From the latest Downtown BID newsletter, we learned that the Muse Nightclub and Lounge (717 6th Street NW) opening is next week and not this weekend.
Muse Nightclub & Lounge (717 6th Street), a new club owned by Zhou Hospitality, will open on Thursday, November 6, with a jazz band and happy hour. The festivities continue two [...]
Ward 2/ANC 2C & 2F Election Guide *updated*
Ed. Note: We added a few condo/apartment buildings to the ANC/SMD listings below the third paragraph per reader suggestions. We added two links to the linkset at the bottom of the “What’s going on in ANC2C?” section.
Following up on our Ward 6/ANC 6C election guide is this longer Ward 2/ANC 2C & 2F election guide. [...]
PQ Weekend Guide – Halloween Edition
Instead of listing Halloween parties this year, we’re going to switch things up. We’re going to tell you where you can make money in Penn Quarter for wearing the best costume! Please leave a comment if you know of any more costume contests!
We’ve only identified three Oct 31st costume contests so far:
La Tasca
$100 [...]
Is There A Nurse Practitioner In Penn Quarter?
For more than a year we’ve been heading up to Bethesda’s MinuteClinic when we needed to see a health professional fast. Now that the CVS location at 7th & H is being rebuilt, we wondered this could also house the District’s first MinuteClinic.
In our experience downtown DC has plenty of doctors, but getting same day [...]
PQ Building Permit Update
The 455 Mass Ave NW office building gains another tenant
10/20/2008
Permit # B0801458
455 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW
SQUARE 516S OFFICE VENTURE LLC
INTERIOR ALTERATION & REPAIR TO SUIT TENANT RENO CAVANAUGH PLLC APPROX 8400 SF ON THE 4TH FLOOR
More after hours work on E St, but the permit contains our favorite verbiage
10/21/2008
Permit # AH0900027
901 E ST NW
THE PEW CHARITABLE [...]
Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
We’re going a little further afield in the city today…
Between Dupont & Logan Circle – It’s that time of the year again…time for the drag races on 17th Street NW on Tuesday, October 28. We’re not talking NHRA Top Fuel here folks! [Borderstan] and [14th and You]
Navy Yard/Ballpark District – Nats stadium cost just went [...]
Ward 6/ANC 6C Election Guide *updated*
The late Tip O’Neill, former Democratic speaker of the House, said “All politics is local” and with that in mind we’re focusing on the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) elections and the associated Single Member Districts (SMDs) for downtown. If you live downtown, you live in Ward 2 or Ward 6. Today, we’ll look at [...]
Airing PQ’s Dirty Laundry
Many of us in PQ live in relatively new apartments or condos with a washer & dryer in our units. But what do you do when one of those appliances breaks and you can’t get it repaired quickly? Where do you turn for your back up laundry needs? We’re pretty sure all of the buildings [...]
Roundup: City Tapes Platinum/Bounce Shut
Endorsed by the downtown community including police and fire rescue, residents, a civic association, business owners and city leaders, Mayor Fenty (see photo above) representing the DC Government sealed the doors of 915 F Street NW yesterday afternoon in a very visible way. This included the taping of a Mayoral Order to the front door [...]
Club Platinum Bounce Closed Down *updated*
This just in…we don’t have all the details but MVTResident, our intrepid reporter on the downtown scene, phoned in to report that Mayor Fenty and Chief Lanier just held a press conference this afternoon at 915 F Street NW to announce that the club operating in Platinum or as Platinum or formerly as Platinum or as [...]