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The 5pm Post – Final Reminder to Sign Up for the PoPville Bocce Tournament This Sat.

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo courtesy of DC Bocce League

We still have room for two more teams!!!

PoPville Warm-up to Spring Charity Tournament

Rooftop Tournament & Party Details
Saturday, April 14
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Highland Park Apartments rooftop
(above Columbia Heights Metro)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

  • Registration is $20/player and proceeds benefit St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
  • Create your own team (4 player minimum) or sign up individually or in groups of less than 4 and we will find you a great team.
  • Games are 30 minutes long and played to 10 points.
  • The tournament is single elimination, with a Bear Pong losers bracket for all teams that get eliminated, so the merriment goes on!
  • The winners are crowned Bocce Champs of PoPville and receive accolades, a charity donation to St. Baldrick’s Foundation in their name, and other lavish prizes (bar tabs or trophies perhaps?).
  • Players receive official PoPville Charity Bocce Tourney t-shirt, beverages, party specials, and an epic spring day on the rooftop.
  • A schedule and bracket will be sent out as the date approaches.
  • Post-tourney party kicks off at 5:00pm at Acre 121 (just downstairs from the rooftop) with exclusive specials for players and friends, PLUS live music from “Route 42“ singer-songwriter René Moffatt!

The 5pm Post – Don’t Forget to Sign Up for the PoPville Bocce Tournament

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo courtesy of DC Bocce League

The one day tournament will take place Sat. April 14th. You can find all the sign up info here.

PoPville Warm-up to Spring Charity Tournament

Rooftop Tournament & Party Details
Saturday, April 14
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Highland Park Apartments rooftop
(above Columbia Heights Metro)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

  • Registration is $20/player and proceeds benefit St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
  • Create your own team (4 player minimum) or sign up individually or in groups of less than 4 and we will find you a great team.
  • Games are 30 minutes long and played to 10 points.
  • The tournament is single elimination, with a Bear Pong losers bracket for all teams that get eliminated, so the merriment goes on!
  • The winners are crowned Bocce Champs of PoPville and receive accolades, a charity donation to St. Baldrick’s Foundation in their name, and other lavish prizes (bar tabs or trophies perhaps?).
  • Players receive official PoPville Charity Bocce Tourney t-shirt, beverages, party specials, and an epic spring day on the rooftop.
  • A schedule and bracket will be sent out as the date approaches.
  • Post-tourney party kicks off at 5:00pm at Acre 121 (just downstairs from the rooftop) with exclusive specials for players and friends, PLUS live music from “Route 42“ singer-songwriter René Moffatt!

More Fun & Games!
In addition to bocce, the PoPville rooftop tournament includes music, movie projection of [lawn] bowling saga The Big Lebowski (among others), and buckets of Italian beer and DC Bocce League favorite, Peroni. Plus a post-tourney party at neighborhood bar Acre 121 for players and friends!

If you are new to bocce don’t worry, it’s easy to pick-up and learn on the fly and you can join us early at 12:30pm on the rooftop for a tutorial.

Also check out DC Bocce’s Spring Season, now open for registration through DC, MD, and VA!  Sign up for our mailing list to stay up to date on all league happenings, announcements, happy hours and charity events.

Game Location and Directions
Games will be on the rooftop of Highland Park Apartments.  Access will be granted to all PoPville tournament players and friends to enjoy the party!

Next PoP Happy Hour – Leap Day Wed. Feb. 29th at Acre 121

By Prince Of Petworth

Mark your calenders – the next PoP happy hour is Wed. Feb. 29th from 5-8pm at Acre 121, 14th and Irving St, NW right above the Columbia Heights metro. There’ll be lots of drink and food specials and some live music. For those who’ve been inquiring about t-shirts – I’ll bring some with me as well. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Happy New Year!

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by PoPville flickr user ekelly80

Enjoy the long weekend! We’ll be back to a regular posting schedule Tuesday. Hope everyone has a safe and fun celebration.


Photo by PoPville flickr user mosley.brian

Welcome to Prince of Petworth 3.0!

By Prince Of Petworth

Thanks to everyone who’s written emails and tweets about the new site! While there still may be a few hiccups, I’m super psyched. Is anyone having any problems registering or commenting on the main section, forum, or classified section?

If you were registered on the old site you will receive an email with temp password for the new site. Please let me know if you don’t get one.

For those who use mobile and tablet version of PoP, stay tuned, those versions are coming soon.

Also after (if) you register, your profile pages will include the forum and classified page activity.

I’m psyched to see that the forum section has already kicked off over the weekend (you’ll need to register to participate):

Topics being discussed are Runners in bike lanes?.

and

non-owner’s car insurance in DC.

and I posted a set of keys a reader found.

I look forward to someone kicking off the classified section. Note you can upload photos of your item there.

Please let me know if anyone’s having any problems on the main site, forum, classifieds, or anywhere else.

And thanks again for all the kind words!

PoP Renovating This Weekend Coming Back Monday New and Improved With a New Partnership and Capabilities

By Prince Of Petworth

Finally! I know I’ve been promising this for a long time and I can’t properly express how grateful I am for your patience. In the past 5 years there have been over 18,500 posts and over 300,000 comments. There have also been thousands of photos uploaded (keep ’em coming!) and basically the site was never built to handle that capacity. That’s why we’ve had to deal with so many frustrating tech problems including phantom commenting errors. I’m so happy to say that’s all about to change.

The reason why I’ve delayed for so long is because I have zero tech expertise myself. I also realize that the site has grown to a size where I am no longer capable of handling the tech side. So I’m happy to announce that I’ve made a partnership with a great group called BlankSlate. These are the folks who provide the tech support for the great Brooklyn blog Brownstoner. I can not think of a more perfect partner to bring more capabilities to the site. In addition to fixing all the bugs we’ve been experiencing, BlankSlate will be taking over all advertising for the site while I will retain 100% editorial control.

So what does this really mean? All the people who’ve been making suggestions for how to improve the site – I swear I haven’t been ignoring you – we’re now gonna start implementing some of these suggestions. First and foremost we are going to fix all the commenting errors. A completely new commenting system has been designed. For those who have already registered, you will receive an email asking you to update your registration for the new system. While anonymous commenting will still be permitted – registering will provide access to many new functions coming to the site. The ones that I am most excited about are the classified section, real estate section and new forum section. There will be single sign on so once you register you will be able to access all the new sections. But again, for the main site, if you feel more comfortable you need not register.

Now I also realize that not everyone likes change. And I agree. I personally hate change. But the site was simply becoming broken. I am so happy that it will finally be fixed. Also, the main site, is not really gonna change that much. It will be a bit easier to navigate but will still have the classic blog format.

Of course, whenever changes are made there will likely be some hiccups. So I ask in advance to be a bit flexible when we first roll out the upgrades. If you experience or notice any problems please send an email to princeofpetworth(at)gmail and we will address them as soon as possible.

This weekend starting this evening access to the site may be spotty at times. The site will return live at the same address, www.princeofpetworth.com, on Monday morning. If there is breaking news at that time continue to send tips to princeofpetworth(at)gmail and I will cover it on twitter @PoPville. Thanks.

Here goes nothing!

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