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Clyde’s On The Walk Gone For Certain?
If you follow Clyde’s restaurant around the corner into the G Street alley (otherwise known as the walkway to the entrance of the Gallery Place mall), you’ll find Clyde’s On The Walk. It is the arm of Clyde’s restaurant that operates mostly during lunch hours and serves prepared foods. Every year (usually in the summer), [...]
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
While we’re probably not the first place you heard the news, several sites are reporting that Nick Cho (now associated with Chinatown Coffee Co.) has been arrested. The charges apparently stem from tax issues at Murky Coffee, which was a coffee shop on Capitol Hill. You can get a lot more info from the sites linked to [...]
Photo Of The Week: Orange Glow
A big PQL thanks goes out to a reader for submitting a pre-rush hour image of the intersection at 7th and D Streets NW using High Dynamic Ranging (HDR). The spooky glow also reminds us that Halloween is coming up soon. What are you up to in the PQ for Halloween?
Heard In The ‘Hood: DC Link Roundup
Mount Vernon Triangle – Two dilapidated buildings get new owners. What will they build? [The (Mount Vernon) Triangle]
Bloomingdale – The Boxer Girl mural gets attention by way of a community meeting. [Bloomingdale (for now)] & [InBloom]
All Over DC – Match 75 bars with a DC blogger. The first reviews are in for the Old Ebbitt [...]
Need Any I Heart DC T-Shirts?
No surprises here, but as we’re reported on this location on several occasions, the newest PQ souvenir shop is now open for business. Located at 1004 F st NW (the old K&B Newsstand) the shop opened for business on Friday. Plenty of hats, t-shirts, and other knickknacks available. Despite DCMetrocentric noting that the building resembles an Apple store, [...]
Long View Gallery Inches Closer To PQ With New Location (1234 9th St NW)
DCist has a nice preview of the new Long View Gallery Space (1234 9th St NW) located just across the street from the convention center. At 5000 sq ft, this new location is quite an upgrade from their previous location, which was one block further north on 9th St and featured substantially less floor space.
And [...]
If You See Only One Midnight Movie This Year
If you’re in town this weekend you’re in for such a treat. There hasn’t been this much excitement about a movie since Bruce Campbell was in town for My Name Is Bruce. E Street Cinema (555 11th Street NW) is showing the greatest zombie movie ever, Shaun of the Dead, at Midnight on Friday & [...]
Chinatown Mural Proposed For Verizon Center Metro Entrance – Meeting Wednesday
Readers may be interested to learn that the Chinatown Community Cultural Center (CCCC) is holding a public meeting Wednesday night (10/21) at 6pm. In typical fashion, the CCCC did not actively advertise the meeting to community neighbors and it is not listed on their event calendar, though we are assured that it is still happening.
The [...]
High Rise Life: Taking Out Fido Or Fifi
Many high rise dwellers keep pets in their homes but the lack of a yard precludes them from swinging open the kitchen door and ushering Fido or Fifi into nature’s water closet for their requisite breaks. What’s the upside? There is no lawn to mow. What’s the downside? It’s mandatory that Fido or Fifi go [...]
Heard In The ‘Hood: DC Link Roundup
Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Follow PQ Living via Facebook here and Twitter here.
Mount Vernon Triangle – More public art is coming and this time it’s in front of the Madrigal Lofts. We like public art. [The (Mount Vernon) Triangle]
Downtown – An update and photos of the Againn gastropub at [...]