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Finger Licking Good In PQ?
This blogger has really been missing the Popeyes take out window that used to be on the corner of 11th & F. Always having been a big fan of fried chicken (better chicken and sides at Popeyes, better biscuits at KFC), when I first moved to DC I used to metro from the Hill to Metro […]
Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership
Thursday afternoon a huge banner went up advertising the Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership on 10th street today. 514 Tenth Street NW is to be the future home of said Center, which is scheduled to open in 2011. According to the website, one of the missions for the center is to “deepen visitors’ knowledge and understanding of Abraham […]
Top Shelf Now Penn Quarter Sports Tavern
Local sports bar Top Shelf (639 Indiana Ave NW) has changed its name to the Penn Quarter Sports Tavern. This blogger has spent a lot of time there this season watching the Bulls (until Rutgers) meteoric rise. The bar is pretty nice for the most part, decent selection of reasonably priced beers & typical bar food. The biggest problem with the […]
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year?
We’re no Scrooges, but we were surprised to see the Washington Welcome Center replace the Redskins display with an xmas tree (Christmas tree? Holiday tree? Dead tree? Fake tree?) so early in the year. Seeing a department store pull out the xmas holiday displays before Halloween is common practice these days, but we were still taken aback by the WWC’s display […]