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Inauguration 2009 Photos: Best Of The Rest & Recap
Hosting 1.8 million people on the National Mall for Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and parade was no cake walk but the neighborhood made it through the event in one piece. We couldn’t put up every inaugural event photo sent in right away so we compiled a “best of the rest” and have it for you at [...]
Two Film Festivals: Best Of DC Shorts/Our City
Are you a film buff? Love DC? Look no further than next weekend as there are two film festivals taking place, the Best of DC Shorts and Our City. Here are the details:
Best of DC Shorts Film Festival…February 6 and 7
The best films from the 2008 DC Shorts Film Festival will be shown February 6 [...]
PQ Weekend Guide
Chinese New Year Celebration
Sunday, February 1, 12pm – 5pm, firecracker at 3:45pm
H Street NW, between 6th & 7th St
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Dissidents and Subversives:From Gombrowicz to Hell Meets Henry Halfway
FREE panel is followed by a SNEAK PEEK at tech rehearsal for the show!
Saturday, January 31, 2pm
641 D St NW
Do you know of an [...]
Old Man Winter Is No Friend Of Ours
Don’t mistake the title of this post as a complaint about snow, we love snow. Ice, however, we hate.
Snapping photos around 8:30 am Tuesday morning (the aftermath of the fire*) the sidewalks were covered with snow as more came pouring from the sky. For a brief moment we allowed ourselves to believe it would continue to dump all day, daydreaming [...]
Fire This Morning At 1000 F St NW (Joe’s Souvenir HQ)
We heard via DCist and WTOP this morning that there was a fire in one of the two-story buildings on the 1000 block of F St NW. There are only three two-story buildings on that block: Joe’s Souvenir Headquarters, the old K & B Newsstand, and the Downtown DC BID office. Notice the black residue [...]
Penn Quarter Condo Spotted In Last Night’s Episode Of 24!
For fans of the TV series, 24, last night’s episode contained a little surprise geared towards Penn Quarter residents. The entrance to the Residences At Market Square (701 Penn) was displayed along with the interior of [fictional unit] PH201! We also suspect that the interior of the two-floor unit was not filmed in the [...]
Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Shaw/Convention Center – That apartment building on L Street NW between 9th and 10th Streets NW finished renovations and is now a luxury condo hotel called The Eldon Condominium Hotel. Floorplans and finishes look great! [Renew Shaw]
Mount Vernon Triangle – Buddha Bar sign goes up in the ground floor window of 455 Massachusetts Ave NW. [...]
7th Street NW…Alive And Walking
We like reading Raw Fisher, Marc Fisher’s regular musings on DC area issues appearing in the Washington Post. Yesterday he penned a piece on 7th Street NW, our neighborhood’s Main Street, that appeared in print in WaPo’s Metro section and on line – it also caught our eye. Sketching out vignettes along our Main Street as [...]
Hauling Away The Trash
Friday night during rush hour seems like a strange time to remove the portable toilets from the courtyard between two of the Market Square buildings, (701 & 801 Penn Ave) but we can’t say we’re sorry to see them go.
By Saturday afternoon four of the stalls remained, we assume these will be hauled away soon. [...]
Photo Of The Week: We Are One Fan
CZ submitted our photo of the week taken on 15th Street NW near the Washington Monument during the We Are One concert that took place last Sunday. Thanks CZ…great photo!