Tonight at 8:00 p.m. the Hill will shine at Eastern Market’s North Hall with the presentation of the Second Annual Hilly Awards. The Hill has spoken and you, Hill residents, had the chance to cast votes for your favorite eats, drinks, service providers and arts groups that call our neighborhood home. Winners will be announced […]
I just got off the phone with my mom and I think we have averted a Thanksgiving disaster, all in the name of getting along. Well, isn’t that the source of most Thanksgiving drama? That and the killer Trivial Pursuit game that breaks up dinner and dessert in our house. We will indeed get to […]
You know what I do when I feel like I’m loosing control of my environment? You know, like when a bunch of family from middle-of-nowhere-Texas is about to come into town and I’m already anticipating all the passive aggressive comments about our urban lifestyle? I organize. Everything. I clean out closets, get rid of anything […]
Maybe its the fact that most of my friends have small children, but I feel like there’s lots of talk about elementary schools: where to go, city vs. charter vs. private, favorite teachers and principles, how to survive lotteries, etc. I don’t even have kids, but I feel pretty confident that if I did I’d […]
Living in southern New Jersey meant that we had to drive anywhere we wanted to go, so when I turned 17 all I wanted was the autonomy that my driver’s license and a car would bring. I drove to school, to work, to the community pool a half mile away, to the Wawa around the […]