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Maria Helena Carey

María Helena Carey has always liked to write, tell stories and take pictures but it wasn’t until she moved to the Nation’s Capital that she began exploring all three in a serious manner. She loves poking around Capitol Hill and photographing some of her favorite things: food, her kids, quirky little dogs and cats, and Capitol Hill façades. She is also a portrait photographer and you can see her work at http://mariahelenacarey.com You can contact her at Maria@thehillishome.com

Sad News: AtlasVet Loses One of their Own

We want to extend our deepest condolences to the AtlasVet family: one of their veterinarians, Dr. Keith de la Cruz, passed away earlier this week. He was a resident of Northern Virginia and the secretary-treasurer of the Northern Virginia Veterinary Medical Association. He was also a beloved vet at the H Street practice for the […]

Romeo and Juliet: Opening Thursday

On Thursday evening, new Capitol Hill restaurant Romeo and Juliet will open to the public. Residents may have noticed the soft lunch, happy hour, and dinner opens that have taken place over the past month and a half. (The earliest one of these took place back in mid-May of this year.) The property, now owned […]

District Doughnut: A Capital Doughnut

It’s Tuesday when District Doughnut co-owner and CEO Greg Menna and I sit down to talk about the shop’s first Fourth of July in the neighborhood; the awesome parade that will march by their window a couple of days later; the adorable and patriotic doughnut kebabs that co-owner and chef Christine Schaefer has created for the […]

New Start-Up Split Expands Service to the Neighborhood

If you lived in DC before the advent of Uber and Lyft, you may remember when it was hard to impossible to get a taxi to drop you off past 14th Street, especially if you are a minority group. WUSA-9 investigative reporter Russ Ptacek did an exposé a couple years ago on taxi riders who […]

Capitol Hill Resident’s Petition to José Andrés Goes Viral

Update 7/08/15: The Washington Post reports that José Andrés and ThinkFood Group have backed away from the Trump hotel! I emigrated from Colombia when I was 14 years old. My mother, through persistence and hard work, moved our family so that I would not come of age in what was, at the time, one of […]