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Cool New Building in NoMa sells for $305 Million

Published June 24, 2010 at 9:08PM

Photo courtesy of lhbcommunications

From a press release:

“StonebridgeCarras and Walton Street Capital today completed the sale to Northwestern Mutual of Two Constitution Square in Washington, D.C. for $305 million. The 589,000 square foot office building is leased to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for the Department of Justice. The building is located at 145 N Street, N.E. in Washington, D.C.’s rapidly developing NoMa (North of Massachusetts Avenue) neighborhood.”

You like the look of the building?

And if you’re in the neighborhood Friday or Saturday:

“Pound Coffee wants to help everyone beat the heat this weekend and we want to make sure everyone has a chance to discover the insane deliciousness that is our special Nutella latte, so this Friday AND Saturday, we will be offering $1 large iced lattes and $1.50 large iced lattes all day!

Special: $1.00 16oz iced latte, $1.50 16oz iced nutella latte (or other flavor)
Dates: Friday 6/25: 6:30am to 7:00pm, Saturday 6/26 8:00am to 4:00pm
Directions: Right across the street from the NY Ave Metro, 2nd St Exit (red line), 1300 2nd St NE.“

LOOK – Beat Memories

By Matt Dunn

Published June 24, 2010 at 11:01AM

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
May 2–September 16, 2010 at the NGA.

From the exhibition notes:

Myself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought 2’d hand from Bowery hock-shop, our apartment roof Lower East Side between Avenues B & C, Tompkins Park trees under new antennae. Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso & Jack Kerouac visited, Jack’s The Subterraneans records much of the scene, Burroughs & I edited letter-manuscripts he’d sent from Mexico & South America, Alene Lee (“Mardou Fox” of The Subterraneans) typed final drafts. Neighborhood was heavily Polish & Ukranian, some artists, junkies, medical students, cheap restaurants like “Leshkos” corner 7th & A, rent was only ¼ of my monthly $120 wage as newspaper copyboy. Time of “The Green Automobile” poem to Cassady, Fall 1953.

Allen Ginsberg by William Burroughs

LOOK – Reading the Paper

By Matt Dunn

Published June 22, 2010 at 11:00AM

Photographer Mike Hicks specializes in street photography and shoots for the City Desk at WCP.

Free in DC: Things to do Tonight – Sunday! 6.17.10 – 6.20.10

By Prince Of Petworth

Published June 17, 2010 at 5:00PM

Photo by PoPville flickr user DCin3MP

Hello PoP fans, It’s Amy from Free in DC with a list of great free and low cost events happening tonight and throughout the weekend.

Tonight…

After work today you can stop by Farragut Square Park for Free Live Music or head over to 16th & L St for Third Thursday Art Event at WVSA ARTiculate Gallery from 5:30-7:30pm. Tonight is also the monthly Mid-City Third Thursday where you call stroll along 14th St and the U St Corridor for some evening shopping and promotions. Most shops stay open til 8pm, some stay open a bit later. Stop by Mid City Caffe, just above Miss Pixies, for a Free Coffee Cupping at 6:30pm and share your opinion about which of the coffees you’d like to see them feature next month. After checking out the shops, you can also stop in for some Live Jazz at 1905 near U St starting at 9pm every Thursday.

Over on the H St Corridor tonight you can stroll through participating art galleries for ARTventures on H St from 5-8pm and also be sure to swing by the H St Kiosk Discussion & Open House at 13th & H St, NE from 4-8pm. Also tonight, The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, hosts “Story/Stereo” a Free Poetry & Music event at 9pm and the Free Outdoor Movie Series at the Capitol Riverfront continues this week with Family Night featuring the film Shrek at 8:45pm.

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LOOK – The Cigar Smoker

By Matt Dunn

Published June 17, 2010 at 11:00AM

Photographer Mike Hicks

Eugene ‘Thunder’ Hughes on the Midtown Youth Academy by Danny Harris

By Prince Of Petworth

Published June 16, 2010 at 11:20AM

Eugene, right, is pictured with Jeffrey, one of the Midtown Youth Academy’s boxing coaches and a graduate of Dr. Hughes’ program.

Danny Harris is a DC-based photographer, DJ, and collector of stories. In September, he launched People’s District, a blog that tells a people’s history of DC by sharing the stories and images of its residents. Every day, People’s District presents a different Washingtonian sharing his or her insights on everything from Go Go music to homelessness to fashion to politics. You can read his previous columns here.

‘I was born over in a neighborhood that they tore down to build the Rayburn House Office Building. I was one of 13 children. We had an outhouse, oil lamps, an ice box, and had to chop wood for the stove. It was a different time then. When I was just a kid, maybe nine years old, I started boxing. I turned out to be pretty good and won pretty much everything there was to win in the world, from the golden gloves to the worldwide all-service tournament four years in a row when I was in the Marines.

“After I got discharged, I was out in California and went down to Watts. There, I joined the Black Panthers and was one of the first members. We were trying to reorganize Watts and let black people know that they were human. We made our own schools and built a parallel community to the white one. But, you know how folks be, those on the outside got real jealous and mad and came after us because we weren’t going to live under them no more. When the people from the outside came in, we ended up burning Watts down. Many of us went to jail for the burning. I got four years, but got out in 18 months on good behavior.

“While I was in jail, I sent out an application to the University of Connecticut because I was still under the G.I. Bill. They let me in and I studied to be a lawyer because I wanted to get into the structure and turn things around. Even though I wanted to join the establishment, you never stop being a Black Panther. You always got to keep on.

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