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For the next two weeks (until September 16), stop by Zaytinya (701 9th Street, NW) to enjoy a few specials as part of their Grape Festival. Here are just a few highlights:
Through September 16
Half glasses of all wines by the glass will be available.
September 11th, 4PM-6:30 PM
Complimentary wine tasting, featuring wines from the Eastern Mediterranean!
Friday, September 7th & Saturday, September 8th
Premium wines typically sold by the bottle, will be available by the glass.
Wednesday, September 12th, 8PM
A five-course tasting menu designed by Head Chef Michael Costa with wine-pairing and discussion featuring Ioannis Tsapos of Dionysos Importers and Marianna Mitsi, Greek oenologist. $85 per person
Penn Quarter/DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Right: Red Apron Butchery coming soon signage at 709 D St NW (h/t: PQ Living reader Nancy)
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Welcome back from the long Labor Day weekend! Here’s what we were reading recently about neighborhood news in DC. Have something to add? Leave it in the comments!
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Penn Quarter – PQ Living reader Nancy alerts us to the fact that the Red Apron Butchery posted coming soon signage on the old Union Hardware building (709 D St NW). They are already regulars at the Penn Quarter Farmer’s Market on Thursdays and are part of the Neighborhood Restaurant Group. Photo is above – the target opening date is in “early 2013.” Thanks Nancy! [Red Apron Butchery website] & [Neighborhood Restaurant Group website]
Penn Quarter – DC Shorts, the annual shorts film festival, starts Thursday here in Penn Quarter. Of note, this year there is a culinary connection and you can find recipes from a few Penn Quarter chefs such as Mini Crab Cakes from Peter Smith from PS7 and Lamb Tartare on Crostini from Ed Witt of 701 on the DC Shorts site. [DC Shorts – Film and Chef pairings] & [Mini Crab Cakes recipe – PS7 – Peter Smith] & [Lamb & Broccoli Tartare recipe – 701 Restaurant – Ed Witt]
Penn Quarter -SculptDC (950 F St NW), formerly called The Art of Spyn, posts an opening date on their website and it is September 24. This is the last of the retail bays on the south side of the 900 block of F Street NW to open up. They also have a Facebook and Twitter presence. [SculptDC website] & [SculptDC Facebook] & [SculptDC Twitter]
Downtown – Over 50% of DC’s new residents from 2000 to 2010 choose to live in downtown DC (downtown being broadly defined for this story). [Washington Examiner]
All Over DC – Drivers beware! DC’s speed camera network has expanded by 25 cameras! [WaPo – Dr. Gridlock]
Chinatown – Although there is no backing photo, information, or news source cited, this post indicates that Wok n’ Roll is looking to expand at 604 H St NW. [Prince of Petworth]
Labor Day Weekend Events
If you’re not heading out of town for Labor Day weekend, then consider checking out some of these neighborhood events.
Tonight
Jazz in the Sculpture Garden – Final performance
5:00pm-8:30pm
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (700 Constitution Ave. NW )
Throughout the Weekend
Shakespeare Free For All – All’s Well That Ends Well
8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31
2 p.m., 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1
2 p.m., 7:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 2
Shakespeare Theatre Company – Harman Hall (610 F St. NW )
Mini Golf
Last chance to play the indoor course with designs by local architects
National Building Museum (401 F St. NW )
Sunday, September 2
Labor Day Concert by the National Symphony Orchestra
US Capitol Building, West Lawn
DC Residents Invited To Meeting On MLK Library Building’s Future
From a DCPL press release:
Forty years after the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library opened its doors, the DC Public Library explores what’s possible for the historic building and what makes a spectacular central library. District residents are encouraged to join in the discussion at the Sept. 19 meeting of the Board of Library Trustees at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW, 6 p.m. Nationally recognized architects and library experts will present ideas to board members and residents.
The MLK Library is an architecturally known van der Rohe building in downtown DC and the central library for the DC Public Library system. It also happens to be where we borrow many of the books we read, the CDs we listen to, and the DVDs we watch. In the fall of 2011, we participated in the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) study through being interviewed by the ULI panel to look at possible ways the building can be used more efficiently for the community at large. (The study is available here.) The ULI study came out in the spring of 2012 and since then the DC Library has commissioned the Freelon Group to come up with concrete possibilities for implementation based on the study’s recommendations. Now the community gets to see and hear those possibilities.
Furthermore, from the same DCPL press release,
In the days following the Library board meeting, the District of Columbia City Council’s Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation will hold a public roundtable. The roundtable hearing will be held on 11 a.m. Sept. 27 on the fifth floor of the John A. Wilson Building.
If you wish to listen, react, and provide feedback on this key project’s moving forward, now is the time to mark your calendars. We’ll see you at the meetings!