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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

Goats at Cemetery, Thursday Productivity Plummets

By now, you may have heard that those buried at Congressional Cemetery have some adorable companions this week. That’s right! The cemetery has a big poison ivy problem and “eco goat” crews have been deployed this week to dine on some invasive Toxicodendron radicans, all the while allowing maintenance crews to do away with pesticides […]

First Bite: Getting Our Fries on at Béarnaise

Setting out to dominate the south side of the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Spike Mendelsohn’s new concept strayed from the comfort/fast food food formula and ventured a bit more upscale: Béarnaise, located at 315 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, is a steak-and-frites bistro with a well-stocked bar. Formerly in the space of Thai Roma (which […]

Open House Round-Up for 7/28/13

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. Looks can be deceiving: 1349 K Street SE has a surprisingly spacious interior with a great flow! It was fully gutted […]

Eat Local!

Think about what you regularly eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Do you know where your eggs came from? How about the bacon and the milk? Do you know who made the tofu and the beer, and who picked the peppers and the lettuce? Chances are, many of your replies will be limited to the […]

Celebrate Belgium at Eastern Market this Saturday!

Here’s a bit of European history: Back in 1830, Belgium officially separated from the Netherlands. On July 21, 1831, the country installed Leopold I as its monarch, and thus became the Kingdom of Belgium, a French-speaking, Catholic, bourgeois country with a passion for making the world’s tastiest mussels, frites, beer and chocolate. (Thank you, Wikipedia!) […]