Here at The Hill is Home we get so excited when new retail and new businesses open! Now, in addition to having wonderful yoga studios, spinning, barre, group fitness, dance classes and all manner of running groups, we can add pilates to the list. Pilates is a fitness system that involves strength training and […]
Last week, I wrote about Samuel Colt and his destruction of a ship in the harbor of New York, without ever referring to Capitol Hill. Today, I tell the second half of the tale, and how it does, indeed, relate to our neighborhood. Having proved the concept of his mines, it was now time for […]
The newest play in the Mosaic Theater season line-up is Milk Like Sugar, by Kirsten Greenidge. Thanks to the generosity of the folks at Mosaic, I attended opening night. The play hit me in the gut– it’s a raw and frank story about poverty and race and about being a teenager and feeling invincible. It’s also […]
You know that warm feeling you get when you see your neighbor who always does the shoveling for the entire walk, or who checks in on the elder neighbors? Maybe you really appreciate your ANC commissioners and their tireless efforts (FOR NO PAY) so that your corner of the Hill looks its best? Perhaps you would […]
Hey Capitol Hill! Do you love doing things last minute and feeling the panicked excitement of almost missing deadlines? If you breathlessly answered yes, this post is just for you! November 15 is the deadline for entering your design in the Capitol Hill 2016 Banner Design Contest, so listen up: What on earth are you […]