Starting tonight at 5 p.m., join The Monthly for drinks and conversation at Hank’s Oyster Bar, 633 Pennsylvania Avenue SE. You may be wondering what The Monthly is, and why you would want to show up to a bar with a box of tampons or maxi-pads, and the answer is very simple: We need to talk […]
To those (assumedly exceedingly small number of people) actually reading THIH today, I say, Welcome to beginning of summer! With it being Memorial Day and all, today’s column will be a rerun. This rerun is actually appropriate for the day, as it concerns a Capitol Hill resident’s work building the amphitheater at Arlington Cemetery, site […]
“Ulysses on Bottles,” by Israeli playwright Gilad Evron, at Mosaic Theater Company through June 11, 2017, is not perfect, but it’s mind-blowing, harrowing and uncomfortable. At turns, it’s also disconcertingly funny. The play and its staging are a perfect fit for a theater company that delights in bringing awareness to its audience by the cold-water bucketfuls. Evron’s […]
CHCNS, the Capitol Hill Cooperative Nursery School, is holding a FUNdraiser and we are all invited. If you are not familiar with her, Ms. Frances is the heart and soul of CHCNS and a joyful presence on Capitol Hill. I’m proud to say that my children are alumni of CHCNS and Ms. Frances, whose hugs only […]
Last week, we looked at the aftermath of a raid on a young enslaved African-American. Despite having almost bought himself free, he was taken away from Mrs. Sprigg’s boarding house and sold. Joshua Giddings, Abraham Lincoln’s messmate at Mrs. Sprigg’s, attempted to rescue the young man from a slave pen, but was thwarted because Henry Wilson had […]