Thanks to G. for sending around 3:30pm from 8th and O St, NW: “Roof fire.”

Update from DC Fire and EMS:

“Box Alarm 8th & O Sts NW. Mulch burning on rooftop of multi-story building. Fire has been extinguished with no injuries. No structural extension. Request fire investigators.”


From a press release:

“A new cocktail and wine bar opens this week in Shaw, one of the city’s hippest neighborhoods. Ugly Duckling is located at the popular corner of 7th and Q Streets Northwest (1550 7th Street, NW), the ground floor of Jefferson Market Place.

Partners Teddy Kim and Ian McGrath of Oglesby Management are longtime players in the area’s hospitality industry. The two, along with their Director of Operations Rob Csonka, are the pioneers behind The People’s Drug, King’s Ransom, Handover by the Slice and Chop Shop Taco in Old Town Alexandria, VA. (more…)


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