In case you somehow missed the news, the Hotel Washington, along with its famous Sky Terrace Restaurant with spectacular views of the White House, closed on Jan. 1 to make way for renovations that will see the historic business turned into D.C.’s first W Hotel. The new hotel should open in about one year. In the meantime, NBC4 tips us off that this morning at 9 a.m. the hotel began a liquidation sale of every…
>> Bostonist is on top of the hostage situation at the Hillary Clinton headquarters in Rochester, NH. [Bostonist] >> “The historic Hotel Washington will close at the end of the year to undergo extensive renovations and will reopen in 2009 as a sleek W Hotel.” [AP via WTOP] >> “Montgomery County Del. Kumar Barve was arrested last night in Gaithersburg for allegedly driving while impaired by alcohol.” [WaPo] >> “In this day and age,…
What a weekend to be in Washington. No doubt we’ll be seeing a whole lot of you around the Mall for one event or another this weekend. DCist would like to take this opportunity to recommend sunscreen with a high SPF. We just can’t have all our readers looking like lobsters come Monday morning. Not a sexy look. FRIDAY: >> The D.C. music scene says farewell to Q and Not U tonight at Black Cat….
It seemed that those photos of the elevated ice skating rink on the first level of the Eiffel Tower in Paris were all over the place a few days ago. (How cool would it be to ice skate on the roof terrace of the Hotel Washington, or some rooftop venue with a great view of the city’s monuments.) Well Ballston seems to be jumping on the sky skating trend as well, but we aren’t sure…
Final Baseball Vote Set for Today: How many final votes on the baseball deal are there? For baseball owners, their final vote on whether to send the Montreal Expos (to become the Washington Nationals) to Washington is today. While the real deal making has happened over many months and this vote is more of a formality, the cloud of unsettled District Council squabbles over the contentious stadium deal have put a cloud over today’s vote,…
Two weekends back, DCist took a trip to the Old Post Office Pavilion. We weren’t there to mingle with tourists in the food court, we went for the view. With the Washington Monument closed for security upgrades, the tower of the Old Post Office is the next best thing. Its free access and normally low traffic is one of the best relatively low-key tourist sites in the city. (Please note that the National Park Service’s…
Two blocks of 15th Street’s western sidewalk adjacent to the White House campus and the Treasury Department headquarters will close, according to the Post. While it may be a prudent move in the name of security, it certainly could cause pedestrian traffic in front of the Hotel Washington and the Old Ebbitt Grill to crowd considerably….
