RSS FeedFord’s Theatre Welcomes Neighborhood With Discount Performances
Ford’s Theatre got in touch with PQ Living to let us know they are offering discounts to the neighborhood on an as-available basis for this weekend’s performances of the play The Civil War. To get access to the discount, use the promo code PENNQUARTER online at Ticketmaster or over the phone at (202) 397-SEAT. Limited availability tickets are available for $25 for this upcoming Friday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s performances.
For more information on the play itself, click on this link.
Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site and the Ford’s Theatre Society are partners in the operation and programming of Ford’s Theatre. The National Historic Site is part of the National Park Service, and the Society is an independent not-for-profit organization.
FreshFarm Earth Day Benefit To Kick Off Poste Patio Season
The Poste Moderne Brasserie patio (555 8th Street, NW), formally known as The Garden at Poste, will kick of their patio season this week by hosting a garden party on Earth Day, Wednesday April 22 from 5 pm to 7 pm, with the admittance fee benefitting FreshFarm Markets. The $5 admittance fee will be donated to FreshFarm, a non-profit organization that runs the many open air markets around town such as the Dupont Circle market and our very own Penn Quarter Market which recently started back up for the season on Thursdays.
What will be available to consume you ask? The consumables include samples of truffle frites and warm gougères off Poste’s small plates menu, wine tastings from Virginia wineries, cheese tastings from Cowgirl Creamery, samples of French microbrews and samples of new punch-style cocktails being served in the garden.
Visitors are encouraged to use the carriage entrance to the courtyard which fronts 8th Street. (Please, no carriages). The patio isn’t infinitely large and space is limited thus visitors will be accommodated on a first-come, first-serve basis.
FreshFarm Markets is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC with 501(c)3 status.
Chevy Chase Needs Claritin
Or so we heard. Repeatedly. While we were using the self-checkout at CVS today on 8th street, we were privy to one side of a very loud cell phone conversation. There were many customers in the regular checkout line and one of them was excited. So everyone in the store got to hear a one-sided cell phone conversation that went something like this (as best we can from memory):
[Loudly on cell]: I was standing around waiting for something to do when I was told “Chevy Chase needs Claritin, get to CVS!” so I raced up to the drug store. I’m in CVS. I’M IN CVS… CHEVY CHASE NEEDS CLARITIN. I have it in my hand right now, I’m waiting in the checkout line. Chevy. Chevy Chase. He’s famous.
Chase is in town for Earth Day (happy Earth Day everyone) and we hope he gets to see more of PQ than just the National Mall. As annonying as the CVS cell phone talker was, we’d probably be texting all of our friends too if Chase sat next to us at the bar at Capital Grille.
Georgetown Law’s Theater Group – Performance Tonight!
A longtime PQL reader wanted to let us know about a student-run theater group called the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society at the Georgetown Law Center located just on the fringe of Penn Quarter at 600 New Jersey Ave, NW. Tonight is the last night of their current show, titled Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore. It is a ghost story that involves some of the best music (if not the best-known) that Sullivan ever composed. The bulk of the cast and technical crew are law students.
The show is held in the Hart Auditorium at 8pm tonight. Tickets are available here or at the door.