Downtown Holiday Market

People walk at the christmas market on Gendarmenmarkt in downtown Berlin, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006. You know its Christmas time in Germany when, inexplicably and almost overnight, the public squares of most cities and towns are transformed into shopping bazaars offering everything from Bob Marley T-shirts to hand-carved Christmas ornaments. The markets in Germany have been a dominant part of the country's celebration of the Yuletide for hundreds of years. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

Another attraction adding interest to the 7th Street NW corridor this holiday season is the Downtown Holiday Market, every day from Monday December 11th to Sunday December 22nd. It's managed by Diverse Markets Management, a group that has grown out of the craft markets at Eastern Market.

Last year, it was piloted on the Old Convention Center site (see "Shopping, With an Urban Appeal," subtitled "Holiday Market Brings a European Tradition to the Heart of Downtown," from the Post) and this year it will be on F Street NW, adjacent to the Reynolds Center/Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

I'm all for starting new traditions, but I want a ferris wheel too.
A Ferris wheel is illuminated at a Christmas market in the German capital of Berlin December 4, 2006. In background left is the TV tower. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY)

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