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Souvenir Row
Maybe that’s what Tour Guide meant in the comment section of our post a few weeks ago about Joe’s Souvenir shop closing. Tour Guide noted that we shouldn’t feel bad for Joe, he owns the other souvenir shops on what has become PQ’s souvenir row. Well we’re guessing Joe still owns this spot as well, […]
Smoking In The Boy’s Room
It appears that the downtown destination for cigar smokers, Shelly’s Back Room (1331 F St NW) is expanding into the next door space that used to be occupied by Class Act Salon (also at 1331 F St NW). Class Act is now closed, and attached to their windows are both a building permit and ABA […]
No More $3 Sundaes On Mondays
Reader JU sent in this photo of an eviction notice which is now hanging on the front door of Gifford’s Ice Cream (555 11th St NW, entrance on E). A week or so ago we tried contracting both the Gifford’s manufacturing unit and the separately owned retail unit. The manufacturing side got back to us, […]
Trigger Control
In May of 2009 we wrote about what we thought was an overly-burdensome process to legally obtain a firearm in DC. Our biggest complaint was the 4 hours of classroom instruction taught by a DC certified firearms instructor. We were subsequently lambasted for this position in the comments field, with many of our readers correctly noting the importance of gun safety. We ultimately agreed […]