Yesterday was Housing Complex Day, a complete celebration of D.C.'s architectural flops and triumphs, failed stadium projects, landlord/tenant battles, forgotten condos, and one City Paper staffer's wireless theft skills.
Here are some highlights:
Single Best Line of the Day:
3. What else can you tell us about your sweet-ass crib?
It’s filled with ladies. And by “ladies” I mean [...]
Walter Gagliano is an interior designer who has designed 25 restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area. Tonight, he’s accompanying Young & Hungry columnist Tim Carman on a whirlwind architectural tour of District eats to reveal which offerings are hot and cold, off the menu.
Station 9, 1439 U Street NW
Hot: Originally an old post office, Station [...]
Walter Gagliano is an interior designer who has designed 25 restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area. Tonight, he’s accompanying Young & Hungry columnist Tim Carman on a whirlwind architectural tour of District eats to reveal which offerings are hot and cold, off the menu.
Policy, 1904 14th St. (202) 387-7654
Cold: Policy's unmarked entrance can make Policy's [...]
1. This sucks, change it (intersection of 18th and U Streets NW)
I have no idea what goes on at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. I am glad of this fact. I'm sure they're marvelous people in there.
Walter Gagliano is an interior designer who has designed 25 restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area, including D.C. Coast, Ten Penh, and all three Jaleo locations. Tonight, he's accompanying Young & Hungry columnist Tim Carman on a whirlwind architectural tour of District eats. Gagliano goes on the record about what's hot and cold in D.C. [...]
We drive through Kalorama, Georgetown, Burleith, and finally Foxhall Village before we spot a live human being sitting on their front stoop. Just after 5 p.m., we find Bob Siciliano, 67, relaxing in a patio chair. His barefeet resting on a small metal table. His dress shirt untucked and unbuttoned down to his waist.
Siciliano says he [...]
To 28-year-old Kendall Graham, moving on up in D.C. to a three-level town house with a patch of grass means getting another dog. She already adopted a pomeranian mix and is looking for a companion dog to help her fill out her new place off Florida Avenue, near Howard U. "Baby" doesn't do well with [...]
"I dislike it when design tries to force you to do things you may not want to do," says Julian Hunt. We've just dashed across Connecticut Avenue to a dismal parklet. There's a statue of someone or another, a reclining person with the world's most gigantic case of plumber's butt, and some lunching folks.
This park, [...]
