The NoMa BID would like your help with a most poetic civic engagement: Through today, they are seeking your inspiration to name not just one but two parks in the NoMa area: The first one is currently known as the NoMa green and is located north of Florida Avenue NE, close to the Union Market […]
The much-anticipated opening of District Winery is here and I could not be more excited. I love wine and I love good food, but I love them best together and within walking distance of my home. I did not have reservations at Ana, the restaurant inside District Winery, but decided to try my luck on opening […]
If you’re feeling powerless about the devastation and sadness coming out of Houston and want to help, here are a couple of things you can do. If you want to help with your dollars and your stomach (and don’t want to donate to the Red Cross directly, maybe), the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington has […]
In case you missed it, there was a special ANC 6B meeting on whether to keep 7th Street SE between North Carolina Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue closed to motor vehicle traffic during weekend market hours. (This has been an issue we’ve covered here and here.) One of our readers, Bryan Rodda, live tweeted the session […]
I will be straying off the Hill proper today – just a little bit – for a story that promises gore and depredation in large quantities. It is the history of a small neighborhood just across South Capitol Street from Capitol Hill, with the evocative name of Bloodfield. The earliest mentions of Bloodfield come in […]