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One of our favorite Friday after work/evening events is back in one week’s time on Friday, March 27 from 8 pm to Midnight. It’s none other than After Hours at the Hirshhorn Museum at Independence Ave and 7th Street SW. Want to play outdoors or indoors? No problem either way. Music, beverages and fun people abound too as the Hirshhorn hosts an evening party better described as a multimedia event. More after the jump… Continue Reading >>
Somebody’s Watching Me…Part 1
We at PQ Living like to play the game “Spot The Eye In The Sky” every once in a while and the photo on the left of the alley connecting D Street NW with E Street NW in the 600 block shows that, as Rockwell crooned in the ’80s, someone indeed is watching me. Car insurance commercial jokes aside, click on the image to find the security video camera.
This got us thinking about Google’s Street View, the street level photographs of many US cities posted online and attached to the Google Maps site, and the privacy flap it caused when first released. It even spawned a few Street View “sighting” web posts and sites such as this one and this one and this one with scenes varying from the hilarious to the potentially illegal.
Street View blankets much of DC and Google generally did a good job of keeping most unwitting PQ actors hazy enough that a viewer can’t identify them. One of our favorites is the view shown below of the northwest corner of 7th Street and G Street NW. (Click on the link for the fully interactive Google image.)
What is this person standing at 7th and G Streets NW doing with their apparently raised arms? Shout out or obscene gesture? Who knows? Fortunately for them, they can say they had their Street View cloak on. Is somebody watching you?
What else did we find in Street View? We’re saving that for the next story. In the meantime, if you have good DC Street Views to share, let us know at pqliving [at] gmail [dot] com.
PQ Weekend Guide
Thursday, March 19, 6 – 8pm
Kate McGraw & Ann Tarantino: Workbook
Opening reception
Gallery at Flashpoint
916 G St NW
Friday, March 20, 7 – 9pm
Women’s Work: Lynn Cazabon, Hadieh Shafie, Tory Wright, Noelle K. Tan
Opening reception
Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, Third Floor
Saturday, March 21, 4:30pm
John Waters speaks about Cy Twombly’s Letter of Resignation
The American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture. This series pairs great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. The series director of American Pictures is Adam Goodheart, director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.
National Portrait Gallery
8th & F St NW, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium
Sunday, March 22, 2:30pm – 6pm
Ghosts of a Chance
Decipher codes, follow treasure maps, send text messages (bring your text enabled cell phone), and uncover hidden objects in this multimedia scavenger hunt. Register in the Luce Foundation Center between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on the day of the event. Allow approximately 90 minutes to complete. (Groups of ten or more can play Ghosts of a Chance by appointment; contact GoodlanderG@si.edu to schedule.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th & F St NW, Luce Foundation Center, Third Floor
Do you know of an event occurring in the Penn Quarter area this weekend that we should add? Please contact us or leave a comment on this post!
Ice Is Out, Fire Is In
The Regatta Raw Bar at the ground floor of the Marriot at Metro Center (12th & H) closed a while back. On March 27th the space will open as Fire & Sage, a restaurant with more of a bistro feel. We assume most of our readers do not frequent the Marriott hotel restaurant, but visitors to DC (who stay at the hotel) probably eat there often. Fire & Sage seems like it will be a more approachable eatery than a raw bar, but it will still cater to the tourists and not be a neighborhood destination like Poste (another restaurant in a hotel).
Will any of our readers miss the Regatta Raw Bar? Anyone excited about Fire & Sage?