And we’ve come full circle back to Cleveland Park for this beauty.
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Author: Prince Of Petworth
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I’ve been meaning to post about Chapters A Literary Bookstore for a while but I couldn’t seem to find it. It was located at 445 11th St., NW. I just thought I kept walking down the wrong street. Sadly the location has closed. However, their Web site says:
“CHAPTERS is currently in storage, but we now have a Letter of Intent from the landlord of 601 Penn. Ave. NW (on Indiana Ave., between 7th & 6th) in the dynamic Penn Quarter area of downtown D.C., and 90 days to raise the funds to undertake the lease. With your help, we will again be part of the downtown renaissance, and of its cultural and community life. Please see the home page: WHY & HOW TO MAKE A DONATION. Thank you!”
I think that 90 days has passed. Has anyone noticed any movement at 601 Pennsylvania Ave? Anyone remember how great this store was?
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I thought this was petty curious. It was located on the inside of the door at the location of the soon to be Wagamama located at 418 7th Street, NW in the old Olson’s book store. Because it’s on the inside of the door I wonder who placed it there.
As a reader wrote me, “not breaking news but… but pretty interesting story coming out of CM Graham’s office today. His chief of staff arrested on bribery charges.” I was on a walkabout and just returned to tons of emails about this. It is crazy! Thanks to all who sent emails. My question is – do you think this is going to hurt CM Graham’s political career?
Here’s the Washington Post’s take:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The District Rhyme – Teaser 1 from Dave Adams on Vimeo.
Every now and then I need to hear something great like this so I don’t lose my mind. I hope this makes you as happy as it made me. I’ll post updates on the film as it becomes available. From an email:
“I met the people over at Words Beats and Life (wblinc.org) a couple years ago, and did some video work for them, but had always wanted to feature their work in a feature doc about using Hip-Hop to supplement the Education of DC youth. There are a number of artists in the area who are also school teachers such as Bomani and Asheru (who are both featured in the teaser). Much of the work is being done in the Columbia Heights area. One of the WBL campuses is housed at St. Stephens church on Newton, Asheru does a lot stuff over at Bloom on Kenyon, etc.
Long story short, we just want people to be aware of what we are doing so they can follow progress on the website (thedistrictrhyme.com).”
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This beautiful shot is from cacophony76. Does anyone know what neighborhood it is from? For the record, I love black and white photos…
Submit your photos via email or to the PoPville flickr pool here.
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This condo is located at 3155 Mt. Pleasant Street, NW:
The flier says:
“Lovely renovated studio at The Mount Pleasant with 14′ vaulted ceilings & stunning sunset & National Cathedral views. Charming LR with fixed stairs to sleeping LOFT, granite kitchen w/ breakfast bar, large renovated bath, loads of closets, exposed brick walls, wood floors, W/ D combo in unit, low fee (includes WiFi), pets welcome!”
More info and photos found here.
Well this is a bit of a contrast from yesterday’s house porn but I think this is one cool looking studio. In this case I think the Loft makes a big difference as you can put your bed up there. And as I’ve said before, I dig the exposed brick. What do you guys think? Does $209,000 sound reasonable?
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Post Pub is located at 1422 L St NW. For some reason I had thought this place had closed but clearly I was mistaken. There were folks sitting outside this past weekend. What’s the word here more of a sandwich joint or drinking joint? Is it like Stan’s?
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“Dear PoP,
Yesterday (Wed) at 6:30pm I was watching a soccer game at Tubman Elementary on Kenyon two houses West of Wonderland directly across the street from a young kid about 14yo who crouched to the ground when he and another youth a few houses up recognized each other and got into a staring match. The kid closest to me slowly pulled a gun from inside his underpants and the other kid darted toward my side of the street and toward 13th street and moments before I thought he’d be shot a cop in jeans and a red polo shirt apprehended the kid with the gun. No shots fired, no screaming -I don’t even think the soccer players knew anything was going on 1/2 block away. I never noticed the 2 plain clothes policemen and huge kudos for the quick professional arrest. The gun wielding youth was of slight build, medium height, dressed well and someone you would not view as threatening. Someone you would expect a mom to have her arm around. Likely in another 5-10 seconds shots would have been fired. Crazy to be so young and willing and prepared to kill another with his whole life ahead of him when he seemed so calm. Even when sitting handcuffed with the cops on the corner of 13th and Kenyon the assailant did not seem angry, scared or threatening.”
Well, this is just insane. Thankfully nobody was hurt and MPD made an arrest.
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“Dear PoP,
I have a car but can walk to work and have been thinking about getting rid of it. My husband (who also has a car) thinks I should keep my car because it’s paid for, has low miles and gives me no trouble.
We got a notice at work about our company getting a discounted rate for the ZipCar sign up fee. I’m thinking about joining. I figure that if I *needed* a car I could use one of those, but save on the auto ownership costs and the daily parking hassle.
Moving on to the point: Do you or any of your readers have any experience with zipcar and if so, how have they found it? Convenient? Easy to use? Cars available when they need them? Overly expensive?”
What do you guys recommend? I recently sold my car and couldn’t be happier. Though I haven’t signed up for Zip Car so I’m interested to hear what folks have to say as well.