I was absolutely mesmerized by this shot from Tyrannous.
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Author: Prince Of Petworth
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This home is located at 1929 13th Street, NW:
The flier says:
“Well maintained/restored by historically-minded owners. Beautiful 3-level renovated owners’ unit with endless upgrades: chef’s custom kitchen, open 3rd-flr loft/master suite w/ new bath, fireplace, wet bar, and great roof deck with umbrella, two-zone HVAC, and great closets. Plus two-car parking, and a 1BR/1BA income unit with stainless kitchen, all within steps of Metro and vibrant U Street.”
You can find more info here and a virtual tour here.
I’m gonna be honest this house blew me away. This is one of the few houses I’ve seen that is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside. I’m not sure if it’s the built in bookshelves or the dope roof deck but this is one of my new favorites. What do you guys think of the house itself? It’s yours for $1,225,000.
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JOJO Restaurant and Bar is located at 1518 U Street, NW. Here’s another spot that I’ve walked by a million times but haven’t checked out yet. So in addition to the food, is this a good spot to listen to music? Would you consider it more of a bar than a restaurant or vice versa? Any fans out there?
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From Council Member Jim Graham:
“Dear Friends, a fight between two feuding girl gangs culminated in a stabbing at 1024 Kenyon about 11 PM last night. The victim was a 16 year old girl and she is expected to recover. The fight, I am told, was over a MySpace issue. More as details are developed. Councilmember Jim Graham”.
This is sad on so many levels.
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Matt Dunn, originally from the Bronx, NY, lives in Shaw and has been a freelance photographer since June 2000. Matt’s work has been published in the New York Times, Spin Magazine, Mother Jones, Washington City Paper and other publications. He has work on photo projects internationally in Haiti, Cuba, India and Uganda.
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Ed. Note: First, let me thank all the folks who wrote to let me know of the new mural going up on U Street just east of 14th Street. I love getting tips for new restaurants and development but it brings me a special joy when folks write in with murals and doors and gardens and signs… it makes me realize that I’m not crazy.
I was lucky enough to run into the artist, Joel Bergner, 30, while he was painting his most recent piece. Joel is originally from Chicago but has lived in DC for the past two and a half years (near Howard University). He says he was never a gallery artist but simply taught himself. He started going bigger and bigger leading to murals. In addition to being able to go bigger with murals, Joel also likes the community aspect of painting murals. A recent one (see photo below) on 15th Street, NW just south of Park Road was painted with the help of local youth.
He is able to paint these murals with the assistance of grants from the DC Commission of the Arts. You may recognize his style. In addition to the one above, he has also painted the great one on the corner of Morgan’s Seafood on Georgia Ave. He also has pieces in NE, DC as well as up in Silver Spring. I’d just like to take this opportunity to publicly thank him for all his work. I think he has greatly contributed to making this city a much nicer place to live.
Sadly, I wasn’t able to ask him all the questions I would have liked to but maybe he’ll read this and answer a couple more that I wish I asked – how long does it take to paint them, how does he pick the designs and how does he select the buildings/locations? Now if only we could get him to Bacon Funeral Home… After the jump a photo of his current project on U Street. I’ll be sure to update when it’s completed. (more…)
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This is another true archive photo. I remember remarking back in the day that I thought it was pretty hilarious to have a mirror on the outside of your door. Seems ripe for a caption contest. Your captions in the comments and winner announced Friday.
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We had a Dear PoP about this property, located on 14th Street across from the Allegro, back in February. And you can see there has been no visible progress. I mean if it’s gonna be vacant and construction has stopped maybe they can paint a big mural on it or something. Right?
Ed. Note: I still have some reader requested Horse’s Ass Award nominees and I promise I’ll get to them. If you have more nominations please email them to me.
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16th Street just south of Park Road, NW is blocked to pedestrians. I understand that there is a turn lane here. But can’t they put up a yield to pedestrian sign or something like that? First of all the (not so) temporary barricades look terrible. But secondly, and perhaps I’m just being lazy, it’s a pain in the ass to walk all the way around when you just want to proceed north on 16th Street. Am I crazy? Or should they come up with some type of solution to remove these barricades?
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photo by M.V. Jantzen
“Dear PoP,
So what gives with the new parking policy at DC USA? They no longer allow motorcycles or scooters to park in the actual garage. Instead you have to enter by the Park Street entrance and park up on one of the sidewalks where there’s a security guard to watch over the motorcycles and scooters. That wouldn’t be bad except that (1) you then have to walk all the way around to get into the building, and (2) it always seems to be raining when I’m doing this. The first couple times the security guards wouldn’t give me an answer when I’d ask why I couldn’t just park my Vespa in the garage. All they’d say is that I shouldn’t be complaining because now I can park for free. One of the guards I spoke with today said something about DC USA’s insurance no longer covering motorcycle or scooter parking in the garage. I’m assuming this is because there’ve been a number of thefts.
Have you heard anything about this policy? On the one hand, I guess I’m happy that they’re trying to prevent further thefts of motorcycles and scooters. But I sure wish there were a way to do this and still allow people to park in the actual garage, not around the corner. And the whole thing would go down smoother if the security guards did a better job of communicating what was going on. All they do is scream at you that you can’t park in the garage and that you have to park around the corner. And to top it off, they seem put off by the fact that people might have any questions about this policy. I mean, it’s pretty strange when you try to park in a parking garage and they tell you can’t, but they don’t give any further explanation. It made me feel like *I* was the criminal, and it sure didn’t make me want to go inside and spend my money there.”
Anyone familiar with this new policy? I thought they had like a million parking spots in this complex?