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It’s not as convenient as a street elevator, but it looks like it’s a lot more fun. The McDonald’s at the corner of 13th & F had a recent Sunday morning delivery. Continue Reading >>
Asia Nine Is Opening At Some Point
PQ Living readers Cat and Nicola wrote in to point us to a ZagatBuzz update on Asia Nine’s opening on E Street. The post says something about opening in early March but the lack of accuracy we’ve had in predicting restaurant openings has us wondering if early April is more in line with reality. Maybe a few Artisan residents can give us the straight scoop!
I Live Uptown, I Live Downtown
Downtown (doun’toun’): n. The lower part or the business center of a city or town.
Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.
A decade ago when I first moved to DC, I wanted to know what people meant by downtown. What I asked what area they meant by “downtown,” three of the boundaries were almost always the same (and all in NW); Mass Ave to the north, 22nd St to the West, and Penn Ave to the South. The Eastern boundary could be as shallow as 17th ST, or as distant as 11th. While the North, West, and Southern boundaries still seem like fairly reasonable markers, what about the Eastern boundary? Does it extend to 6th ST? 3rd? Maybe to the Capitol?
In his columns & chats Gene Weingarten refers to his “house in downtown DC,” yet he lives near Eastern Market. Does anyone else consider Capitol Hill to be downtown? (“anyone else” does not include Weingarten’s disciples). What about Shaw, or Logan?
The Downtown Neighborhood Association has boundaries that go no farther West than 13th ST. The Downtown Business Improvement District has an Eastern boundary of North Capitol, and a Southern boundary of Constitution Ave.
Is the term downtown so generic that places like the Metropolitan at Pentagon Row can be considered “downtown living?”
Barbara Makes Major Splash
I purposely didn’t read too much about George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara before settling into my seat at the Shakespeare Theater’s Harman Hall early last week. I like to see if I can be surprised by the twists, turns and especially the ending of any dramatic production. And indeed I was well rewarded.