Blagden

"If money comes in, that's the end of anything interesting," says Warrell, who also has a studio in Blagden Alley.

Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010

He bounced around until he landed in Blagden Alley 10 years ago, selling antiques and then building salvaged wood tables.

Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010

In his honor, James Blagden and Chris Isenberg animated Ellis's retelling of his acid adventure on the mound.

Boing Boing 2009

Back in 2005, when these videos were made, drug addicts had overrun Blagden Alley in Washington's Shaw neighborhood.

Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010

The Blagden Alley Newsletter saluted Fight Club in April 2007, saying it helped make the area "a better, and safer alley."

Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010

But he wasn't concerned -- and he became the self-appointed sheriff of Blagden Alley.

Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010

The sheriff of Blagden Alley is not allowed to walk through Blagden Alley anymore.

Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010

The restaurant, located on Blagden Alley near M and N streets NW, is on track to open in mid to late spring, and construction at the site begins in earnest next week.

Chris Ford of Trummer's joins R.J. Cooper's team at Rogue 24 2011

Billed as a 10-day festival "focused on technology, innovation and all things digital," it is holding its opening event at Long View Gallery, one of the newer additions to Blagden Alley.

Riding the edge: For a moment, skaters, punk bands and artists had a secret place to call home. Melissa Bell 2010

This process seemed open to objection, because Blagden had shown that a solution of sodium hypochlorite was not a suitable purifying reagent in practice, since it was much more liable to add chlorine to the gas than calcium hypochlorite.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield