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As previously mentioned, the Downtown Holiday Market is getting ready for this Friday’s opening.
City Sports reminds us of the DC sales tax holiday. From now through Dec 7th, clothes, shoes, and accessory items under $100 are exempt from the 5.75% DC sales tax.
National Christmas Tree Lights Up This Thursday *updated*
Ed. Note – Dec 2 – This article was corrected.
The National Christmas Tree lighting opening ceremony is this Thursday, December 4 at 5 pm in President’s Park in front of the White House. Downtown DC streets always clog up after work the night of this event so plan your commute accordingly. Note that tickets are required to get a seat for the event and those were distributed by the National Park Service starting November 1 so if you don’t have tickets at this point, the NPS is not the place to call or look. But, you don’t need tickets to see the big kahuna and the other state trees the rest of the days the display is open (through January 1) nor to see the nightly performances [PDF] after the sun goes down. The lights stay on until 11 pm.
This year’s Capitol Christmas tree lights up Tuesday, December 2 at 5 pm on the West Lawn of the US Capitol and it is a 73 foot (post cut height) subalpine fir from the Sapphire Mountains in the Bitterroot National Forest [photo link] in western Montana up against the Montana-Idaho border (closest town: Hamilton, MT).
In other Christmas tree news(!), the White House received their tree by horse drawn carriage yesterday.
Zola Wine Opening Today
Another grape option comes to fruition in the Penn Quarter today with the opening of Zola Wine and Kitchen at 9th and E Streets NW (entrance on 9th Street). As of yesterday, there was no signage on the exterior nor a mention on Zola’s website but the wine store is there and so is the sign announcing today’s opening from 11 am to 8 pm…first door on the right on 9th heading towards F from E Street around the bend from the Bruegger’s. We peeked inside through the window and the layout appears similar to stores like Best Cellars where there is one bottle of wine presented at eye level and a vertical column of that same wine available for sale. Nice wood floors, a spread of varietals and a sales counter round out what looks to be a great quick stop for those who both live and work in the core part of the PQ to pick up a bottle of vino.
A construction link history including a link to the satellite map that still shows the parcel as a parking lot (c’mon Google…time to update the image database) and one more photo follow the break.
If you visit, feel free to leave a comment with your impressions.
Thanks go out to JAG and an anonymous PQ Living reader as well as commenter Kelby for tipping us off that the opening was imminent. Continue Reading >>
Shopping With Your Pooch In PQ
Last month MVTResident told us about all the restaurants in PQ that would let you dine with your four legged friend. We thought this time we’d take a look at other PQ businesses that allow you to shop with your pup.
We’ve mentioned them before, but TD Bank (formerly Commerce Bank) at 901 7th ST NW allows you to do your banking with your dog. They have bowels bowls of dry dog biscuits available to well behaved canines (and green lollipops for the humans).
The Ace Hardware in the City Vista building at 1055 5th ST NW (as well as many other Ace Hardware stores) lets you shop with your dog. This location has a recently expanded pet supply section on the ground level, and they too give out milk-bones.
The last pet friendly store we’re aware of is the West Elm at 1020 G ST NW. We only discovered this last week when we noticed a dog water bowl inside the store next to one of the entrances. We asked an employee who confirmed that you can do your furniture shopping with your dog. That seems to make sense, your dog will probably spend more time on your couch than you will.
Are there other pet friendly stores in PQ that we don’t know about?