The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board voted to suspend H2O Restaurant & Lounge’s liquor license yesterday after a presentation from the attorney general’s office demonstrated that the restaurant was open and/or served alcohol past permissible hours on multiple occasions.
The suspension will last 13 days, from Sept. 4 through 16, and comes with a $24,000 fine, [...]
Rumors that the Warehouse is looking to relocate its music venue to Columbia Heights are true, says co-owner Paul Ruppert.
Ruppert confirmed in an interview today that he and his mother Molly have “signed a letter of intent” for the former Bi-Rite supermarket space just two blocks up from the Wonderland Ballroom at 3400 11th [...]
On Sunday, Deborah Howell became the Post’s first Omboobsman. Or is it Omboobswoman? Either way, Howell, the newspaper’s ombudsman, devoted her entire piece to a discussion of Hillary Clinton’s breasts.
Howell’s spotlight on Clinton’s cleavage followed a July 20 article in which fashion editor Robin Givhan described Clinton the following way:
“She was wearing a [...]
Depending on whom you ask, Denis James is either Adams Morgan’s biggest hero, constantly crusading for peace, order, and quiet along the nightlife saturated strip of 18th Street NW—or its biggest nuisance.
Bill Duggan, owner of Madam’s Organ, says he’s the latter. “Everyone else lives and lets live...This guy is such an asshole.”
James is [...]
Hear Mount Pleasant, a group that has been fighting to bring live music back to the neighborhood's bars and restaurants, and its foe, the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Alliance, will both be holding live concerts in Lamont Park this Sunday. In a press release, Hear Mount Pleasant's Natalie Avery calls it a "weird showdown."
The concerts will [...]
It was a long day for D.C. Council yesterday, and a lot of important stuff got passed: Allen Lew's confirmation, the end of single sales along a stretch of H Street NE, and a moratorium on tavern licenses in Adams Morgan. Then, of course, there was the confirmation of Michelle Rhee as chancellor of the [...]
Adams Morgan tavern moratorium passes D.C. Council.
As the Washington Post reported Sunday, a collection of Adams Morgan residents are lobbying to cap the number of restaurants able to acquire tavern licenses in their neighborhood.
These licenses are coveted along 18th Street NW, where restaurants like Madam’s Organ, according to the Post, are having trouble meeting the 45 percent in food sales that [...]
The Committee on Public Works and the Environment yesterday voted to approve a moratorium on single sales of alcohol for a section of H Street NE. The proposal must now come before the full council for consideration.
According to a communiqué from the office of Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells, the measure, which would prohibit [...]
Mayor Adrian Fenty has nominated Peter B. Feather to become the next chair of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, the agency that oversees the city's alcohol administration.
The board is an adjudicatory body charged with approving, suspending, and revoking alcohol licenses. Of late, it has conducted high-profile hearings on violence at area clubs such as H2O [...]
Nothing makes me feel more like a woman than getting my hair cut. Well, that’s not true. Nothing makes me feel more like my mother than getting my hair cut. My mom comes from Baltimore, the so-called hair capital of the world. Like me, she sports a gravity-defying halo of big, big hair. And, like [...]
In April, I reported that, faced with skyrocketing commercial property-tax assessments, Molly and Paul Ruppert, the owners of the Warehouse on 7th Street NW, were considering closing the arts complex. At the time, the mother and son said they would keep operations running through July’s Fringe Festival while appealing their property-tax assessments and scouting new [...]
H2O Restaurant & Lounge can stay open, providing it adheres to earlier closing times on Friday and Saturday nights for the next 30 days, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board ruled on Wednesday.
On May 27, a patron was fatally shot outside the waterfront “restaurant” after an argument that allegedly began inside the establishment’s VIP room. [...]
UPDATE, 1:14 P.M.: According to a Council staffer, Wells' bill failed to get the nine votes required of emergency legislation.
Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans seemed to put the kibosh on recent efforts to tighten restrictions on kids in nightclubs when, on June 5, he motioned to table the Taleshia Ford Memorial Amendment Act of [...]
In his crusade against the "Shopacolypse," Bill Talen, aka the Reverend Billy and the Church of the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, has song lyrics like: "Stop that Starbucks not another....No your latte's not my lover."
For obvious reasons, Starbucks isn't Reverend Billy's biggest fan. So when Silverdocs decided to show What Would Jesus Buy?, featuring Reverend [...]
