In April, I reported that the future of the Smithsonian Jazz Cafe, housed at the National Museum of Natural History, was uncertain. At the time, Leslie Whipkey, a marketing volunteer for the program, said she heard the cafe was “operating deeply in the red,” and worried that Smithsonian Business Ventures, which oversees revenue-generating elements of [...]
I saw the Girl Scouts this weekend—tons of them, everywhere. I saw them scribbling notes on each other's T-shirts and trading "S.W.A.P.S.," which the Washington Post informed me are "Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere."
According to the Post, there are an estimated 2.7 million Girl Scouts in America, though the overwhelming majority of them are elementary [...]
Owner Abdul Khanu said H2O Restaurant & Lounge would reopen at 5 p.m. for happy hour tonight, following today’s decision from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to give the establishment back its liquor license on a provisional basis. The board’s decision came just a week and a half after an H2O patron was killed outside [...]
Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans motioned to table the Taleshia Ford Memorial Amendment Act of 2007 today so that the Committee on Public Works and the Environment could continue to revise it.
Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham introduced the bill shortly after 17-year-old Taleshia Ford was killed by a stray bullet at Smarta/Broadway on 9th [...]
There's a new restaurant in Foggy Bottom: Tonic opened May 29 at 2036 G St. NW and occupies three floors of what was once Quigley's Pharmacy, a drug store and soda fountain that opened in 1891. Co-owner Jeremy Pollok describes the place as "casual," "homey," and similar to the Mount Pleasant outpost. He adds that [...]
The day after a patron was fatally shot outside H2O, the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington sent a letter to police chief Cathy Lanier objecting to her summary suspension of the club’s liquor license. Here's the text of the letter:
Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington
May 28, 2007
VIA FACSIMILE AND FIRST CLASS MAIL
Cathy L. Lanier
Chief of Police
Metropolitan Police Department
Metropolitan [...]
It was the best pick-up line I’d ever gotten. “You walk like a New Yorker,” he said as I stomped from Starbucks to my office a couple mornings ago.
A New Yorker? I was instantly charmed. After all, I’ve always aspired to be a New Yorker. In fact, when I first got [...]
Today's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hearing on the May 27 shooting death at H2O Restaurant & Lounge has shed more light on how the incident came about.
The incident appears to have been sparked by a bottle of Cristal—or, rather, the loss of one. According to police Sgt. James Somers, alleged shooter Rashod Charles Holmes recorded [...]
There’s nothing sexier than posing as a DCRA official, right? Apparently.
According to an alert distributed by DCRA’s Communications Team, telemarketers and con artists are calling consumers posing as the “Office of Consumer Affairs at 941 North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C.” You’ve won a sweepstakes, the con artists say, all you have to do [...]
I’ve been drinking Diet Coke, or DiCo as I like to call it, for as long as I can remember. My parents, two baby boomers, didn’t believe in distinguishing between children and adults. As a toddler, I guzzled beer from their beer cans. When I was a couple years older, I began watching movies [...]
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals yesterday handed down a ruling affirming the revocation of Club U's liquor license.
Terrence Brown, 31, died after a fight in the lobby outside the club, which was located in the government-owned Reeves Center at 2000 14th St. NW, in February 2005. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board revoked Club [...]
Call them adult entertainment. Call them nude dancing clubs. Just, whatever you do, don't call them strip clubs.
"I am not a strip club," declared Nexus Gold Club owner Ron Hunt in an impassioned speech before Ward 5 residents at Bethesda Baptist Church last night. Hunt prefers the term "gentlemen's club" to describe Nexus, a [...]
I was thrilled to read about Lia Pendarvis’s blog, The Lavatory Lady, on DCist yesterday. The blog rates District bathrooms according to a precise system of criteria, including cleanliness, soap and smell, to name a few. Thank God, I thought to myself after scanning her blog. I’m not the only one.
I started rating bathrooms sometime [...]
At a Tuesday markup of the Taleshia Ford Memorial Amendment Act of 2007, the Committee on Public Works and the Environment voted to strike a section of the bill that would make it a crime for minors to buy alcohol at ABC-licensed establishments.
Currently, kids who buy alcoholic beverages at ABC-licensed establishments are subject to civil [...]
When Bruce Buono and his wife moved from St. Louis to Alexandria last year, he was excited about D.C.'s theatrical offerings. Going through the Warner Theatre's Web site, he found a Broadway-based series and paid $570 up front for a pair of season tickets to see the touring productions of shows like The Producers and [...]
