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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

SOTU-Watching Around the Hill

To the rest of America, the State of the Union Address is a television event to be watched and discussed. People sit around their TVs from sea to shining sea, absorbing the President’s message to Congress and to the nation and trying to elucidate what it all means. Either that or, you know, just going […]

Ward Six Councilmember Candidates: Shelonda Tillman

This is our first post in a series of introductions to Ward 6 candidates. Keep checking The Hill is Home for more coverage of the 2014 election. Dr. Shelonda Tillman was a warm hostess when we sat down to drink hot cocoa and to speak of why she wants to run for Ward 6 councilmember […]

SWS Open House TOMORROW, January 15th

Listen up, expecting, new, and already-struggling-with-a-toddler-thanks parents! It’s OPEN HOUSE SEASON at your local schools, and we’re here to keep you updated about it. Why visit a school during open house? It’s a chance for you as a new parent to create fellow parent contacts, as well as to see the future learning environment of […]

Open House Roundup for 12/15/13

Guest contributor Dare Johnson Wenzler is a Capitol Hill resident, Realtor and co-owner of First Vine Wine Imports + Sales. This post also appears on her blog Real Estate On (and off!) the Hill I’m a big fan of the Kingman/Rosedale area just south of H St NE and Benning Road, beginning about 15th St and […]

Liquor License Hearing for Romeo & Juliet Today, 1:30 pm

Near-northeast/Massachusetts Avenue neighbors: are you concerned about the petition for extended liquor-serving hours for the new tenant in the former White Tiger space? Perhaps you are excited that the Michael Romeo Group, who own Lotus and FUR nightclubs among other properties, is taking over the space and asking to serve liquor until 3 or 4 […]