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CookingLight Talks PQ Restaurants
Washington, DC caught CookingLight’s attention ranking our Nation’s Capital third in a national list for “eating smart” (whatever that means!). Poste (a favorite of this writer), Cafe Atlantico’s Minibar and the Penn Quarter Fresh Farm market all got mentions. Cooking Light Best Cities: Washington, D.C. [CookingLight] Hat tip goes to PQ Living reader Lindsay for […]
Power Outage Last Night Around Verizon Center
Looks like the power went out and was restored last night in and around the Verizon Center. This NBC4 story implies that there was some concern it would happen again this morning. Thanks to an anonymous PQ Living reader for pointing this one out.
Riding the 30s Bus
Metro recently announced changes to the very heavily traveled 30s bus route between Friendship Heights/Chevy Chase and Anacostia (WaPo did a story on it too). It runs through both the poorest and the ritziest neighborhoods in DC – four digit incomes to seven digit incomes. I’m on a quest to use my car less so […]
Wayback II: Leader Theater On 9th
We’re setting the Wayback machine to around 1921 or 1922 with this photo of the Leader Theater that stood at 507 9th Street. The silent movie “The Kid”, starring Jackie Coogan and written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, is showing and by taking a closer look you can see that The Adventures of Tarzan runs […]