Posts Tagged ‘Downtown’
Ceremonial Dirt at CityCenter
Photo by Sylvia Brown, used with Permission
There’s nothing I miss about the old convention center. It made Moscone Center’s North and South halls feel airy and light, and the exterior was deeply ugly and unfriendly. I cheered loudly when they imploded it back in 2005. The site has been a parking lot, a bus station [...]
Where We Live: Penn Quarter
‘Penn Quarter’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
Another two weeks, another neighborhood! This week we’ll be looking at the neighborhood at the center of it all: Penn Quarter. This neighborhood encompasses much of the downtown/Chinatown area north of Pennsylvania between 5th Street NW and 9th Street NW. It’s a neighborhood that changed a lot in the past [...]
Downtown Parking, Now With Less Price Gouging
‘Parking’
courtesy of ‘Amberture’
Because of the District’s height limit and a variety of other factors, DC doesn’t have many surface parking lots or above-ground parking garages. No, our city is full of a crazy number of underground parking garages, many of which are hidden and hard to find if you don’t know where to look. Luckily, [...]
Farm Fresh: Cafe Atlantico
WeLoveDC authors Donna (greenie) and Katie (foodie) have paired up to bring you a double-hitting feature about local area restaurants that take on the challenge of being green. Donna will explain the logic behind the environmentally friendly trends and Katie will tell you if the food tastes any good. It’s a rough life, but someone [...]
More »We Love Drinks: Equinox’s Cider Happy Hour
The Oct. 22nd edition of the Dining Out email from Washingtonian had a tip about a happy hour that sounded like a November dream – Fall Cider Happy Hour at Equinox. Yum! I do love me some cider. And my partner in crime for happy hour, Rebecca, loves herself some fall. Fall is well known as her [...]
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