Where do you turn when the roast gets burned on Christmas day? While most of the businesses on Capitol Hill will be closed on Christmas (some on Christmas Eve too–when in doubt call for hours), there are a number of restaurants and service providers that will open their doors for paying customers for people who […]
Tomorrow is the big day! Hopefully you are in the home stretch of prepping for Christmas festivities and can start taking time to enjoy the holiday. Here’s our last installment of holiday recipe traditions brought to you by some of the Hill’s resident chefs. I’d like to thank all the contributors to this week’s series (and […]
The Theater Alliance production of Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity returns to the H Street Playhouse for the second year. The Playhouse is firmly establishing a new holiday tradition for the DC metro area. Originally written by Hughes, the play was first performed on Broadway in 1961. The story retells the birth of Christ by blending […]
Remember when you were a kid and you would truly, deep down, believe that Santa could grant your craziest Christmas wish. Eventually, when that pony didn’t show up for the umpteenth time, you started to suspect that either mom and dad were in cahoots with Santa or he just wasn’t real. A very sad realization […]
By now most people have had to feed or at least dine with a vegetarian. There are varying degrees of veg-status, your pescatarains, vegans and the committed vegetarian who will still eat bacon. No judgement here. For my purposes today I am talking about the most common form of vegetarian, the ovo-lacto which means they eat […]