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After dinner at Kushi this past Sunday night (off topic, but we highly recommend drinking the Hitachino Ancient Nippon while available; it’s 18 ounces of beer-bliss), we wandered out to discover what we believe was an open mic night at Busboys & Poets. We don’t want to comment much on the quality of what we listened to for the simple fact that we’re not really poetry people. Our experience with poetry is limited to our college days of trying to impress the coffee shop waitress with off-hand comments about spoken word jazz.
But those performing seemed earnest if nothing else, especially when it came to airing their feelings towards their parents (cathartic, no doubt). And while we admit to not being the best judges of poetry, we can certainly appreciate how difficult it must be to open yourself up like that to strangers.
As this was the first poetry event we’ve ever seen in the PQ it made us wonder if there were venues other than Busboys and Poets for such events. We thought the Chinatown Coffee Company might offer an open mic night for aspiring poets, but didn’t see anything like that on their website. Do any of our more artistically inclined readers know of other greater-PQ open mic options?
[Editors Note: Image courtesy of this Maynard G Krebs website]
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Have neighborhood thoughts? Leave them in the comments!
Downtown – NYU is starting construction of their own campus in DC…dorms included. [Washington Business Journal]
Capitol Hill/Penn Quarter/Mount Vernon Triangle – Ward 6 Councilmember candidate debate (Wells/DeMartino/Robinson) informs public on their positions…video clip link included. [The Hill Is Home]
Shaw – The CityMarket at O Street groundbreaking *finally* happened. Years in the making. [RenewShaw]
Mount Vernon Triangle – Mandu, a Koren restaurant, to open in CityVista fronting K Street NW posts its alcohol notice. What do we like? Sidewalk cafe baby! [The Triangle]
Shaw – A new Thai restaurant, Beau Thai on New Jersey Ave at R Street NW, updates its menu. Entree dinners are $11 (that is not a typo and it’s not a Penn Quarter price…we’re definitely checking this out!). [RenewShaw]
National Mall – The old “National Gallery of Art is taking over the Federal Trade Commission building” rumor resurfaces. [DC Metrocentric] & [Washington Business Journal]
All Over DC – This does not surprise us. Michaele Salahi will show her all to all of DC (and the rest of the world for that matter). [NBC Washington]
A big shout out goes to Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, for giving us Labor Day off !!!
The DC Mayoral Race Enters The Final Stretch
There was a great turnout at yesterday’s Downtown Neighborhood Association meeting at Carmine’s (425 7th St NW) and both Adrian Fenty and Vincent Gray representatives were in the crowd to promote their candidates. The mayoral primary election is on September 14 with the polls staying open between 7 am and 8 pm. Early voting started this week and runs up until the September 14 main voting day both at the Board of Elections and Ethics office downtown and at four satellite early vote centers.
Need more information? The DC Board of Elections and Ethics’s website has all the information you need to learn about how to vote including a handy polling place locator. PQ Living put up our very own poll in the upper right so place your vote on our site and in person. Make sure your voice gets heard!
Downtown Neighborhood Association Meeting Tomorrow Night
We’re glad to hear that the Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA) is resuming meeting. Tomorrow night the DNA will meet starting at 6:30 pm at Carmine’s Restaurant (425 7th St NW) and this is an open meeting for all downtown residents and neighbors. RSVP to dwntwn2010 [at] gmail.com if you plan to attend.