As a lover of dogs, I relish the opportunity to watch my best canine friend Dominique roam free. For the past several years, her owner (my roommate) has recruited me to accompany them to Congressional Cemetery for Dominique’s requisite pasture time. It may sound odd to readers, but Congressional Cemetery is one of my favorite […]
Eastern Market’s North Hall was vibrating with excitement, quite literally, on Tuesday evening. The Capitol Hill Community Foundation’s Great Grants Giveaway opened with a performance by two drummers from Step Afrika!. If you happened to be walking by, you couldn’t miss the all-encompassing beat, or the smiles of grantees. Each year in the spring and […]
“Is there a hyperlocal blog about Capitol Hill?” was the message I sent into the ether of the HillEast listserv just over a year ago. I thought despite being pretty plugged in, surely I had missed something, and since local news blogs had been popping up throughout the city for the last few years, Capitol […]
There are lots of options for fun and enlightenment this weekend. Most of the events that caught my attention somehow involved music or lectures. Below you’ll find my eclectic mix of weekend options. If you’d like to go into the weekend feeling super smart, attend the free public lecture in room 902 of the Hart […]
No one really talks much about alchemy anymore and that’s a shame. The absolutely physically impossible science tinged with a mystical/magical belief system is a welcome respite from modern reality. I suppose J.K. Rowling touched on it with The Philosopher’s Stone and what is the relentless Vampire Phenomena but another twist on the quest for […]