RSS FeedA Movie To Drive Away The Sunday Blues
In the summer of 2007 we wrote about breaking the Sunday blues by embracing PQ comfort foods. While we think that approach still works well, there’s another way to help fight the blues: movies. But in these tough economic times, you can get the blues just by having to pay the price of admission.
Happily the National Gallery of Art (East Building, 3rd & Constitution NW) is here to help, today their free film series features the 1966 musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. If Zero Mostel can’t chase those blues away, well, there’s always eggs benedict.
Mayor Fenty Suspends Leasing Enforcement For Inauguration
As has been mentioned in the WaPo and other publications, on Nov 18, Mayor Fenty implemented Mayor’s Order 2008-156:
The District of Columbia’s Office of the Attorney General and Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will not enforce the District of Columbia’s licensing and certificate of occupancy requirements with respect to leases, rentals, and similar arrangements, whether or not in writing, between the owner or renter of a dwelling unit and one or more unrelated persons that permits such persons to occupy all or part of the unit beginning on or after January 13. 2009, and ending on or before January 27, 2009.
Also, according to the WaPo article:
The city’s Office of Tax and Revenue announced it will suspend a 14.5 percent sales tax on property rentals to transients for residents who want to rent their apartments or homes to out-of-towners for the inauguration.
This does seem to alleviate any concerns with complying with DC occupancy and tax requirements during the inauguration, but since most of us are condo/apartment dwellers, we’re still subject to our condo association restrictions. There’s a lot of time between now and January 20, 2009. Will we see condo associations start to consider accommodating short term leases?
Downtown Survey Now Online
It’s back! The Downtown Neighborhood Survey which we mentioned when it was first launched one year ago is now available in its second year online at the Downtown Business Improvement District (BID) website. Geared towards querying those who live and/or work in the downtown DC area, survey results will allow downtown organizations to continue building a collective knowledge about our area’s demographic and economic characteristics. Why is this important? Businesses seeking to locate or relocate in our area can get a good sense of what our neighborhood both offers and needs.
The survey area is larger than that covered by the Downtown BID this year as it extends north and east to fully cover the Mount Vernon Triangle in addition to the southern portion of Shaw, areas which undoubtedly take advantage of the shopping, dining and entertainment downtown offers.
Please note that this is not a government census nor is filling it out required by law but you do become eligible for prizes and some of last year’s prizes were quite nice. And, you help out the neighborhood by doing so. This survey is jointly sponsored by the Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA), The Downtowner newspaper and the Downtown BID.
PQ Weekend Guide
National Museum of American History, Grand Reopening Festivities
Friday, Nov 21, 8:30am – 7pm
Saturday, Nov 22, 10am – 5:30pm
Sunday, Nov 23, 10am – 5:30pm
14th St & Constitution NW
Campaign Digital, Andrew Zimmermann: Photographs
Friday, Nov 21, 5:30pm – 7:30 pm
1455 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 400
Embassy of Canada, Craft Fair and Wine Tasting
Friday, Nov 21, 10am – 7:30pm
Saturday, Nov 22, 10am – 5pm
501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Take 5! TheLovejoyGroup Jazz Performance
Thursday, Nov 20, 5pm – 8pm
Kogod Courtyard, 8th and F Street, NW
National Portrait Gallery, Francis Flavin speaks about the portrait of Sequoyah by Henry Inman
Thursday, Nov 20, 6pm – 6:30pm
8th and F Street, NW
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!