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

Maria Helena Carey
10 Jul 2013

Development:

Great Streets Recipients Announced

Here is a bit of news that we can all appreciate for years to come: recently, the Washington DC Economic Partnership, a 501(c)3 organization that promotes and stimulates local business in the District of Columbia, announced the 2013 recipients of the Great Streets Grant Initiative Program. This program distributes more than $1.25 million among different […]


05 Jul 2013

Arts & Entertainment:

BOOM! OOOH! Add Your Fireworks Photos to THIH’s Flickr pool

Hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July, Capitol Hill! This year was an especially impressive one for fireworks– the main display over the National Mall seemed to go on forever, or at least for about 17 minutes from start to finish. (Sorry, San Diego: they aren’t supposed to explode all at once.) The neighborhood […]


04 Jul 2013

Events:

May the Fourth of July Be With You: Best-Of Round-Up

Hello there, Capitol Hill! Hope you’re having a wonderful 237th birthday celebration so far. If you’re getting a little antsy in between parades and fireworks and BBQs, here are a few of our past posts on this, the most American of holidays, for your reading pleasure: Jon’s breakdown of activities from last year still has […]


28 Jun 2013

Ben and Jerry's Needs Your Cleverness for Their Latest Campaign

Ben and Jerry’s has a new campaign to name an ice cream flavor after Washington, D.C. The good news: ice cream won over frozen greek yogurt. Sorry, health-conscious people, but ice cream is always the crown jewel of the icy dessert showcase: the cure to emotional problems; the Yin to our Yang; or, um, the […]


26 Jun 2013

Dining:

A Crafty-Brewy Dream: Bluejacket Pushing for late-August Opening

If all goes according to plan, Bluejacket, the much anticipated brewery and tavern coming to the Boilermaker Shops at Yard Park, will be open in late-August, but that’s still not 100 percent. Earlier today, the restaurant’s Twitter account (@BluejacketDC) posted that it will be open in late-summer. On Tuesday, THIH emailed Bluejacket, and a spokesperson […]


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