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An anonymous PQ Living reader sent in this shot of the morning sun caught just right and as seen from the corner of 8th and E Streets NW looking east down E Street NW. Remember to tag your photos with pqliving on flickr.
Details Emerge On New Coffee Shop At 5th & H St NW
A couple of weeks ago we spotted a building permit for a new coffee shop at 475 H St NW. Yesterday, we got the scoop. Thanks to the multiple contributors yesterday, including PQL reader Craig and the multiple commenters in yesterday’s post!
The coffee shop will be the new home of Murky Coffee which is closing up shop in Capitol Hill and Clarendon (just across the river). According to Murky Coffee’s blog, the new shop’s name will be Wrecking Ball Coffee. As to why Murky Coffee is relocating? We’ll let you read for yourself and draw your own conclusions!
Regardless of the murky financial situation of the coffee company, we’re looking forward to enjoying another quality coffee option in the neighborhood! The new shop is expected to open around May 7th.
Galileo Italian Restaurant Coming To 600 14th St NW
Thanks to PQL reader, Cheryl, for sending us word that Galileo restaurant, which used to be located in Dupont Circle, is due to open a renewed restaurant in the former Butterfield 9 space at 600 14th St NW. According to the press release, the restaurant should open in April or May, after a brief makeover. There will be an intimate restaurant-within-a-restaurant, Laboratorio del Galileo, featuring a tasting menu. Roberto Donna will be executive chef at the new restaurant.
This Is How Rumors Get Started
There was an error in our post on New Year’s Eve 2008, namely, Orin Andrus is not (repeat NOT) dead. This is easily the happiest correction PQLiving has ever issued.
You may remember our post about discovering on Christmas morning in an issue of Street Sense that the former homeless vendor had died earlier in 2008. The details from that late December issue of Street Sense were sparse, but there was no reason to doubt the story. There was some question in our comments section about how he had died (calls to the Medical Examiner’s office in the aftermath of our post further added to the mystery), but we were never able to obtain details.
Street Sense is our source for the happy news as well, they were eyewitnesses this time. In their current issue (Vol. 6, Issue 10) Orin is on the cover with a large headline reading “I’M NOT DEAD!” The article by Mary Otto details how earlier this month Orin walked into the Street Sense office “healthy and tan.” Otto’s article goes on to note that what has happened recently in Orin’s life has all been positive. Orin landed a good paying landscaping job in Arlington that allowed him to rent himself a “small room.”
So to all of you who mourned with us, know that we felt real sorrow in the winter of 2008. We hope you now share our tremendous joy in the spring of 2009.