The omnipresence of back-to-school ads on TV can mean only one thing: the rollout of the NEW Youth Arts Program (YAP) at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop! Okay, maybe that wasn’t your first guess, but there are really wonderful changes afoot that we think might be even more exciting than color-coordinated binders and new shoes—all […]
The Washington Post covered the history behind the animals that you see on SE street signs, an awesome art project that CHAW helped make possible. G is for grasshopper! As if Rose’s Luxury wasn’t already hard enough to get into, President Obama celebrated his dinner there. (Eater DC). District Source looked at the progress of Bardo’s […]
Every once in a while you hear of people coming together as a community and doing something heroic. Sometimes, that community is your community. This weekend, we received an email from a Hill East neighbor sharing one such story. A resident who’s called the Hill home for less than a year put his front porch surveillance […]
Want to take a last minute trip to finish out your summer? Stay in the city and make it a gustatory sojourn with stops throughout Capitol Hill that will take your palate to the bayous of the South, Adriatic port villages, and Italian hill towns. French food figures prominently on this Restaurant Week tour, so be sure […]
In February of 1857, excitement at the impending inauguration of James Buchanan raced through Washington D.C., including at the Navy Yard. Determined to impress everyone who came to cheer the new President, they went all-out in building two floats for the parade that would go – as was the custom in those years – from […]