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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, there were in fact no iPods for sale.
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 to celebrate the opening of this new space, Long View Gallery is hosting a mega grand opening tonight at 6:30pm! We’re told that you will have to RSVP for this event or face standing outside in a line. The gallery’s large walls will be draped in works of art provided by a who’s who of DC artists (and neighbors), including Dana Ellyn, Matt Sesow, Scott Brooks, Anna U Davis and Billy Colbert.
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 & Saturday night (10/23 & 10/24). If you’ve never seen this movie, you owe it to yourself to be there. If you have seen the movie, then you already know you’ll be in line to see it again.
So if you see a lot of people shuffling around and mumbling to themselves, don’t worry. They’re probably just repeating lines like “there is an I in meat pie,” or “you got red on you,” or maybe “go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.” There is almost no chance that they’re blood thirsty zombies, of course if they are just remember to “remove the head or destroy the brain.”
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 organization is proposing a “large-scale Chinatown mosaic mural” for the 7th & F St Metro entrance, otherwise known as the Verizon Center entrance. The proposal will be presented by Martha Jackson Jarvis, who painted the mural for the Anacostia metro station. It is unclear if any city officials will be present, but this meeting would be a good opportunity to provide feedback early on in the design process.
This blogger also can’t help but wonder why the 7th & F St (Verizon Center) entrance was chosen for a potential Chinatown-themed mural as opposed to the 7th & H St (Chinatown) entrance.
Edit: The meeting location is 616 H Street, NW, Suite 201. Enter from H Street or through the entrance to Regal Cinema, up the escalator one level, and straight down the corridor that is slightly towards the left.