Last weekend, we noted a protest which had been lodged against the liquor license renewal for Bladensburg Road NE bar Jimmy Valentine’s Lonely Hearts Club. Despite that protest, a spokesperson for the club informs DCist that things are operating as usual at the club, and there are no plans for the bar to stop serving its customers anytime soon.

Being lonely is going to be a bit harder, now that we’ll have to be sober at the same time. The MPD-5D listserve lit up this weekend with news that the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration had denied the liquor license renewal for Jimmy Valentine’s Lonely Hearts Club at a protest hearing last Wednesday. Currently the bar holds a tavern license and was arguably one of the first to populate the H Street corridor (even though it’s located on Bladensburg Road NE).