Faves and raves by
Kwame R. Brown
Two-term at-large D.C. Councilman, chairman of the Committee on Economic Development, chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments board of directors, native Washingtonian, Woodrow Wilson High School and Morgan State University graduate
PERSONAL STATS
AGE: 39
NUMBER OF YEARS IN D.C.: 39
NEIGHBORHOOD: Hillcrest, Ward 7
– Michael Neibauer
1. FAVORITE NEIGHBORHOOD HANGOUT
Anacostia’s Big Chair Coffee n’ Grill (2122 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE)
2. BEST MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
During the recent snowstorms … an ATV with a plow on the front
3. FAVORITE LOCAL SPORTS EVENT
My kids Lauren and Kwame II’s soccer, basketball and football games
4. BEST PLACE FOR LIVE MUSIC
9:30 Club
5. BEST PLACE FOR OUT-OF-TOWN VISITORS
The Frederick Douglass House, a National Historic Site in Southeast D.C.
6. BEST BREAKFAST SPOT
American City Diner (5532 Connecticut Ave. NW), Bloomingdale’s Big Bear Cafe (1700 1st St. NW)
7. FAVORITE MUSEUM
Newseum
8. MOST ROMANTIC SPOT
Arboretum
9. FAVORITE WAY TO SPEND A LAZY SUNDAY
No lazy days. A great man once said, “In order to achieve in life, you must go to bed later and wake up earlier.”
10. BEN’S CHILI BOWL, OLD EBBITT GRILL OR CAFE MILANO?
Ben’s Chili Bowl and Ben’s Next Door for the overall D.C. experience
11. BEST OUT-OF-TOWN RETREAT
Alabama, to visit my wife, Marcia’s, family
12. BEST INSIDE-THE-BELTWAY RETREAT
There is no better place to retreat than D.C.
13. BEST PLACE FOR LATE-NIGHT EATS
Ben’s Next Door and Busboys and Poets
14. BEST PLACE TO PEOPLE WATCH
Chinatown
15. BEST LOCAL HIDDEN TREASURE
The students of the D.C. Public Schools, our children
16. MOST D.C. MOMENT
The day we get full representation in Congress and are treated like everyone else
17. PROUDEST PART OF LIVING IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL
The generations and diversity of people who live here. They’re what’s good about D.C.
18. EMBARRASSING PART OF LIVING IN D.C.
The state of education in our public schools
