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Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery at 702 8th Street NW (on the other side of 8th Street opposite the 1791 Deli between G and H Streets) will be hosting the exhibit MONO/CHROMATICS, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and prints by noted painter Michael Gross.
Check after the break for more including the exhibition dates starting January 6.
Happy New Year
The PQ Living staff is on holiday today and will return with our regular programming tomorrow.
We wish everyone a Happy, Peaceful New Year and may 2009 be your best year ever!
Remembering A Gentle Giant
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As the year winds down, we wanted to take a moment to remember a friend of ours who passed away late in 2008. We discovered Christmas morning in the latest edition of Street Sense that our friend and former Street Sense vendor, Orin Andrus, had died on the very corner where he sold his papers.
We would see Orin selling papers most weekdays at the corner of 11th & G Streets NW. Orin was friendly and outgoing, so much so that we soon found ourselves looking forward to seeing him each morning. Often we were only exchanging pleasantries, but sometimes he’d tell us about his life in Key West. In fact most of what we talked about were the same things mentioned in Orin’s Street Sense vendor profile; his grandmother, his love of Mexican food (he seriously loved Mexican food), his hope to one day be back on his feet with a permanent job and home. If Orin ever missed a weekday at his usual corner, he’d later tell us of the odd job he had landed that kept him away (small carpentry jobs, helping to unload trucks, or some form of landscaping).
Inauguration Security – We’re In The Zone
.. the security zone, that is. According to this recent WaPo graphic, the Penn Quarter is totally contained within the Homeland Security secure zone for the 2009 inauguration. We’re not entirely sure what this means, but we know that no cars or buses will be allowed to park in the ‘hood. Unfortunitly for our neighbors in the Triangle, buses will be allowed to park in their neck of the woods. However, there is a provision stating that no bus may park in front of a residential building.