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It wasn’t quite Fight Night at the Tank but there were a few fireworks last Thursday night, August 7, at a Philips Collection auditorium where the candidates for Ward 2 Councilmember debated for a solid hour and a half. A well numbered crowd showed up filling seats to hear Davis Kennedy, publisher and editor of The Current newspapers, moderate the debate between Jack Evans, Georgetown resident and incumbent Ward 2 DC Councilmember, and Cary Silverman, Mount Vernon Square resident and challenger.
How did it go? PQ Living was there and this is a longer read so check after the break if you’re interested… Continue Reading >>
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Phone Call
This pay phone at 10th & F is one of the last of its kind. There are probably a few other pay phones around PQ, but as blocks are rebuilt (and cell phones rule the world) they are few & far between.
This one seems to get more use as a beverage coaster than a communications device. We’ve seen a few people use these as a way to ask for money by holding out the receiver asking for change for a call. But mostly they sit unused.
When was the last time you used a pay phone to place a call?
Who Is Buying Walnut’s Eye Street Parcel?
Earlier this year we followed the 5th and Eye St parcel bidding contest among four developers but the hubbub died down as the winner announcement date kept getting pushed back. Supposedly, it’s now August 18. In an interesting development, DC MUD (Metro Urban Diary) is reporting that Walnut Street Development, owner of 443-459 Eye St, NW, which is adjacent to the 5th and Eye corner, is under contract with a mystery purchaser for the parcel. The extra tidbit is that each of the four bidders was asked to submit another “best and final” by yesterday, August 8. Who could that purchaser be?
Where’s Beartato When You Need Him?
There is a new monthly alternative paper in town, this time devoted to comics. Bash! hit the stands earlier this month, and there is at least one downtown box (11th & G, where the various NY buses pick up) where you can pick up these papers.
This first issue had some good comics (Keith Knight’s K Chronicles), some not so good (Dan Archer’s Cuba Libre), but overall this small paper is a fun read. We’d like to see some of Nedroid’s creations in the future, but for a free paper we’re not complaining.