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Taste She’Brew Triple IPA at Compass Rose this Week – Live Music by The Beat Fairy Tonight

By Prince Of Petworth

She'Brew Poster

From Compass Rose:

“Our Big Beer Week event! We decided to focus our Beer Week special around an issue close to our hearts at Compass Rose: Women in the Bar and Restaurant Industry. We are a female owned and female run business so we thought it appropriate to introduce D.C. to She’Brew from Shamaltz Brewing Company!

She’Brew: 22oz beer with 11% ABV. Big bottles intended for splitting between two people. The first She’brew Beer is a giant and luscious Triple IPA that pours bright apricot with a silky white head. She’brew hides her strength behind a beautifully balanced, drinkable triple IPA.

For our band special we will have late night happy hour pricing on draft beers and rail cocktails including the He’brew Hop Manna, another great IPA from Schmaltz Brewing.

We will be donating to the Pink Boots Society scholarship fund, a global non-profit that aims to advance women in the beer business. Schmaltz Brewing will also donate proceeds to Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region (Albany, NY) whose mission is to inspire all girls to be “Strong, Smart and Bold.” Schmaltz Brewing already supports this cool non-profit through sales of She’Brew. We will be contributing a donation based off of She’Brew sales during all of Beer Week.”

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1346 T Street, NW

Petition Fails, “Crypto-Classism” Defeated with Arrival of a 7-11 coming to 14th and Florida Ave, NW

By Prince Of Petworth

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Solea building at 14th and Florida Ave, NW

About a month ago we learned about a petition hoping to block a 7-11 from coming to this corner. At that time Citylab’s Kriston Kapps penned A Petition Against a D.C. 7-11 and the Crypto-Classism of NIMBYism:

“It’s one thing when someone groans about a store he doesn’t like opening in his neighborhood. It’s another when nearly 200 others join him in his call to keep out commercial enterprises that cater to people of lower means. It’s classism.”

Kapps can now back away from the Bastille, a reader tweets us a sign permit for a 7-Eleven at 2300 14th Street, NW:

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Today’s Rental is a 1 bed/1 bath for $1950 off U Street

By Prince Of Petworth

2004 11th Street Northwest

This rental is located at 2004 11th Street, Northwest. The listing says:

“This quaint condo w/ garage parking is just 1-Block to Metro! It’s also close to the 9:30 Club and some of the best local eateries & bars in DC! The building is nicely equipped with a concierge desk, exercise room and party/meeting room as well as roof-top deck. The Lincoln Condos is at the corner of 11th & U. You can’t want for a better location!”

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You can see more photos here.

This 1 bed/1 bath is going for $1,950/Mo.

“The company and the garage have the worst service of any company I have ever experienced (maybe save for Comcast)”

By Prince Of Petworth

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“Dear PoPville,

My boyfriend and I live in Shaw, and because we live in a building that has a parking garage (at a price tag of over $200 a month) we are not eligible for a DC street parking permit. We pay DC taxes, we have DC plates on our car, but we cannot park on the streets of the city where we live.

Because we cannot park on the street, we have to deal with the parking companies. The company that runs the lot in our building is U Street Parking. They own a significant amount of the parking garages and lots in DC (between U Street Parking and Laz, they seem to own almost all the garages). In this particular garage, they seem to make most of their money off of valet parking and those who park in the garage for work.

The company and the garage have the worst service of any company I have ever experienced (maybe save for Comcast). The parking fob that we use to get in and out of the garage almost never works. We have frequently been stuck in the garage unable to get out or outside of the garage unable to get in because the fob does not work. This is especially infuriating on a weekend when there is no one in the office. They will assign us a new fob, and the new fob is also non functional. When we call, staff is unapologetic about the recurring issues. I have left endless unreturned voicemails with the “manager,” but I’m sure my calls are going to some unanswered line. I know this is a very first world problem, but because we cannot park on the street, we have no other choice in where to park our car (and U Street Parking knows this). They get away with poor service and I feel like we are flushing money down the drain every month. Our building accepts our complaints, but claims they cannot do anything because the parking lot is owned and managed by U Street Parking and is not within their domain.

I wish we could get rid of the car, but my boyfriend needed the car to get to work in a non-metro accessible area of Virginia. And with all the track work and general metro dysfunction, without the car, we wouldn’t be able to get anywhere outside of the District on the weekends. I know others in our building are frustrated too, but other than moving, we don’t seem to have any options. Have others had similar experiences and/or dealt more effectively with this company?”

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