DC Summer 2016 Restaurant Week kicks off Monday, August 15th and lasts through Sunday, August 21st. This is a great chance to try a new restaurant by getting a three-course lunch for $22 or a three-course dinner for $35. Participating Capitol Hill restaurants include Ambar, Art and Soul, Belga Cafe, Bistro Bis, Bistro Cacao, Cafe Berlin and Sonoma. […]
In case you haven’t noticed, we recently added two new features to The Hill is Home: an event calendar and a business directory! The event calendar highlights events taking place on Capitol Hill and around Ward 6. Anyone can post an event to the calendar for FREE. Free accounts are limited to posting four events per […]
It’s August in D.C., and thus everyone –including me– is on vacation. The Library of Congress website is down. It’s time for a rerun. This is one of the earliest columns that I wrote for The Hill is Home, and a subject I return to every time I give a tour of the Capitol. ________ […]
CHAMPS’ recent annual meeting ushered in an exciting new fiscal year for the organization. The garden event was sponsored by member organization Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) and featured fresh food from local caterers DC Vegan and Tres Creole. Members, local business owners, and neighborhood supporters gathered to socialize, then vote and approve the 2016-17 CHAMPS […]
Ask and you shall receive improvements, kinda. Back in June, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), asked the National Park Service to do better for the locals, and for the parks they maintain in the National Capital Area. As of last week, the National Park Service unveiled a local portal that seems laid out in a gentler […]