The Week Ahead – Some Photos+The Fridge Is Up for Sale

Crushing news from Barracks Row.  The Fridge is up for sale according to the signage on the building per Berkshire Hathaway.  The gallery and event space – a vision of owner and gallery director Alex Goldstein – was the offbeat center of artistic creativity on Barracks Row.  It was an art gallery for both emerging and established artists and was dedicated to making the arts accessible.  It also hosted concerts, from hip hop to jazz and folk.  Established in 2009, Goldstein broadened the gallery’s outreach to include art education for community youth. The gallery’s role in exhibiting art and serving as an event space was undercut by the pandemic from which it could not seem to recover. The venue’s Instagram account says “Our mission is to foster creativity and community dialogue by serving as a conduit for expression.”  Efforts to reach Goldstein were unsuccessful.  For more Fridge history, see here:  https://www.instagram.com/thefridgedc/?hl=en

EMCAC seeks volunteers for newly created ad hoc Committee for Public Safety.  The Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee is seeking volunteers to join the newly created Eastern Market Ad Hoc Committee for Public Safety.  The committee will address public safety issues in and around Eastern Market.  General issues covered will include fire hazards, security of the market’s daily operations, threat alerts, public safety training, physical safety improvements and other related issues.  Contact Chuck Burger, EMCAC Chair, for additional information on how to join the committee: cburger@cbmove.com or 202 258 5316. 

Growing like weeds (sorry).  Two more cannabis “gifting shops” just off Barracks Row join the three existing shops on the Row.  Organix at 719 D Street, SE…

And Flourish Gallery at 714 G Street, SE (rear of DCanter). 

Sala Thai – the new Thai/Japanese restaurant coming to the Park Kennedy apartment building in Hill East at 19th and C Streets, SE, hopes to open this coming week, only awaiting city permits.  The popular chain has three other outlets:  4020 Minnesota Avenue, NE, 2300 Washington Place, NE, and 4828 Cordell Avenue, in Bethesda.  Here’s a link to the menu at the Minnesota Avenue restaurant:  https://www.salathairisland.com/

Triple Candie’s latest “curatorial riddle” is on display in the front space of the former Li’l Pub at 655 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.

The Quiet Week Ahead…& Some Photos + The Fridge Is Up for Sale

by Larry Janezich

Posted August 6, 2023

Thursday, September 10

ANC6A Commissioners and MPD Walk & Talk on H Street, NE, 6pm – 7:30pm.  Meet at 9^th and H Street, NE, for a chance to discuss issues and ideas related to the H Street corridor.

Friends of Southeast Library hold their monthly meeting at 5:30pm, Southeast Library, lower level.