Photo by benbalter At 11:30 a.m. this morning, the Black Rooster Pub will reopen its doors at 1919 L Street NW. The pub had been closed for several weeks after the building’s landlord declined to renew its lease, but a combination of online petitions and intervention from local politicos ultimately helped save the business. In an email to supporters today, owner Jody Taylor noted that in addition to today’s official reopening, he’s also planning…

Potentially great news for Black Rooster Pub loyalists. The longtime downtown watering hole served what it thought would be its last drinks on October 16, after the bar’s owner, Jody Taylor, learned at the end of September that his had landlord had declined to renew the Rooster’s lease. Heartfelt farewell stories to the pub appeared in the media shortly thereafter, and we chalked the whole sad story up to accepting that nothing, not even…