ANC6A explores how many liquor licenses are appropriate for H Street at public meetings this fall

ANC6A's fall ABL meetings will focus on discussion of a possible cap on
the number of alcohol licenses on H St NE. The first meeting (Sept 20)
will be informational where the Alcohol Beverage Regulation
Administration (ABRA) director and ANCs from other parts of the city
with caps will talk about the process and the pros and cons of a cap.
The following two meetings will be focused on receiving community
input on whether or not a cap should be put in place and what
restrictions would be included in any cap. Below is the schedule for
these meetings. Any changes to the schedule will be posted to the
http://www.anc6a.org/ website and otherwise publicized..

•Tuesday, Sept 20; 7pm; Sherwood Recreation Center—Informational meeting on
how caps work and pros/cons
•Tuesday, Oct 18; 7pm; Sherwood Recreation Center—Community reaction to the
informational session and discussion about a possible H St cap
•Tuesday, Nov 15; 7pm; Sherwood Recreation Center—Consideration of any cap
proposal and recommendation to the full ANC6A


The committee and commission looks forward to community input.

Adam
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Adam C. Healy
Commissioner, ANC 6A01
Chair, ANC6A ABL Committee
healyanc6a01@gmail.com
202.556.0215
http://www.anc6a.org/
Twitter: AdamCHealy

The agenda for the first meeting is after the jump

Link roundup

The Washington Times had a nice piece on the outreach that the H Street business community has done to welcome deaf patrons and Galludet students.  Nice job by the business owners and CHAMPS for educating themselves on how best to serve all their potential patrons.

City Paper's Young & Hungry returns to Toki Underground (1234 H St) and finds it better than ever now that the stock has had some time to grow.  We've been a few times recently and have been really impressed as well. 
Frozen Tropics posted a cool 1927 photo of the building that is now home to the Argonaut (1433 H St).

The Hill is Home has some nice photos of the first ever H Street Chalk Walk. 

The Washington Post reports that later this fall the city will issue an RFP for the 1300 H Street property it currently owns that was once home to a library and more recently housed the Temporium.

The Sherwood Neighborhood Volunnteers reported that the Sherwood Recreation Center field inside the track will be offline for a few months as part of a DPR refurbishing of it.  Other fields and Sherwood activities remain unaffected.

Rolling out H St Festival Tidbits: DC Brau special brew & free Circulator from Eastern Market

There's far too much great info about this year's H Street Festival to include it all in one post, so we'll try to keep up and get you the highlights over a series of posts this week.  The Festival is this Saturday, September 17, beginning at noon.  It runs from 8th out to 14th Streets, though businesses along the entire corridor will be participating. 
How to get there? 

There will be bike racks at both ends of the Festival at 8th & 14th Streets.  There's also a FREE Circulator bus running from Eastern Market metro.  So if you don't live close enough to walk, bike or take the Circulator from Eastern  Market. 

What exciting food & drink specials will there be?  Lots.  There will be tons of them from all your H Street favorites and some H Street coming soons, but one fun one is a speciality brew from DC's first local craft brewery, DC Brau.  DC Brau makes a handful of great craft beers just east of H Street on Bladensburg Rd & is offering an Atlas FestBier, which will be available all afternoon at Little Miss Whiskey's (1104 H St).  Here's how they describe the special release brew:

Oktoberfest is here, and we have something spezial!
Atlas FestBier is our seasonal offering of a traditional German-style Spezial Helles, brewed only for Fall. Ours will be released just in time for the 2011 H St. Festival.
For more information on this tasty limited-release brew, check out the Our Brau page.

Speaking of the H St. Festival, we will have the Atlas FestBier Spezial Helles during the Festival, at Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar @ 1104 H St., from 1pm - 7pm. Brandon and Jeff will have a booth out in front.
To make ths Atlas FestBier extra-spezial, we only brewed one batch of this for the Festival... and this is your last chance to try some of this exremely-limited release

PSA 102 Meeting Tuesday, 6:30 pm @ Sherwood w/ noise forum

The PSA 102 meeting begins early this month with regular business starting at 6:30 tomorrow night at the Sherwood Recreation Center (640 10th St NE).  They plan to hold a noise forum during the latter part of the meeting (limited explanation after the jump). 

PSA 102 is the Police Service Area that covers most of the H Street neighborhood in the areas south of Florida Ave & north of Maryland Ave and meets the second Tuesday of each month upstairs at Sherwood. 

George's Place (1001 H St) is closing

George Parker opened George's Place (1001 H St) selling men's clothing on H Street all the way back in 1958.  He's run the store in multiple locations since then and has been at 1001 H Street for quite some time.  He's one of a relatively small group of businesses on H Street who can tell you what it was like on H Street before the riots and who lasted through them and until now.  So it's with some sadness that we report that Mr. Parker has decided to close George's Place.  He'll remain in business until he sells out his inventory, likely for another couple months. 

In the meantime, everything he has is available for 50% off.  Stop by and say hello to Mr. Parker.  He's not interested in talking to the press about his plans for the building he owns (near as we can tell it is still for sale at $1.4 million), but he's got other good stories to tell and he still has some good stuff for sale in his shop. 

George's Place is open until 6:30 on weeknights and 7 pm on Saturday, closed Sundays.  George told me he'd consider opening on some Sundays if there was interest and it helped close out the business.

East City Art Weekend Events Roundup

All Events Take Place Saturday September 10, 2011

H Street Chalkwalk (10am to 6pm)
The H Street Chalkwalk, sponsored by CHAMPS, H Street Mainstreet and East City Art, will begin at 10am when artists set up their installation all along the Street Corridor. From 3pm to 6pm, the public will get a chance to vote for their favorite creation. The event’s winner will be announced at an after party taking place at Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar (1104 H St) beginning at 6:30 pm.

Conner Contemporary Art (6pm to 8pm)
Conner Contemporary asks “Is Realism is Still relevant?” The gallery answers its own question with a resounding YES! See three concurrent solo exhibitions with new figurative paintings by Erik Thor Sandberg, Nathaniel Rogers and Katie Miller. In addition, the gallery will take advantage of its massive outdoor terrace with an installation by Conner *gogo special project artist Lauren Adams entitled Plunder.
Conner Contemporary Art is located at 1358 Florida Avenue NE

G Fine Art (6pm to 8pm)
G Fine Art begins its 10th anniversary season with There is No Rising or Setting Sun, new paintings and works on paper by Maggie Michael. Michael’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery features a group of mixed media (including spray-paint) paintings on paper executed this summer in Cetate, Romania.

G Fine Art is located at 1350 Florida Avenue NE

Industry Gallery (6pm to 8pm)
Industry Gallery will be launching its Fall 2011 design season with the first U.S. solo exhibition of work by innovative British artist and designer, Tom Price entitled meltdown. Specializing in modern furniture products, sculpture and lighting design, process plays a key role in Price’s work which has been bought by international museums, galleries and private collectors.
Industry Gallery is located at 1358 Florida Avenue NE

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Volunteer at the H Street Festival on September 17

Be a part of the best festival in DC!

The H Street Festival is looking for a few volunteers to help make the 2011 festival the best one yet.  We need folks to help with set up, assisting kid’s activities, floating helpers throughout the day and with clean up. 

All volunteers get an official H Street Festival Volunteer T shirt.

Want to help?  Email Jen DeMayo jdemayo@atlasarts.org