As I was driving/giving myself a road massage down 6th Street NE the other day, I was wondering just how many potholes DC boasts these days, and who will repair them, and how fast. As if by artifice, this week (specifically, yesterday) Mayor Muriel Bowser launched DC’s yearly #Potholepalooza campaign. Honestly, the name alone gets […]
Gloomy chill aside, it’s spring! Let’s get to acting like it. Tonight start the weekend with Hitchcock, Peck and Bergman with Spellbound. This is the final in a film series which has focused on the use of psychology in the films of both Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. (I am SO bummed I missed Touch of Evil.) Following […]
Do you get a sick feeling in your stomach when you see a demolition ball ready to swing on Capitol Hill? Or perhaps you’re more of an “out with the old, in with the new” thinker? Either way, it’s hard not to notice the more anomalous houses and office buildings that occasionally pepper rows of Victorian, […]
The review of the Streetcar system found that there are no fatal flaws, but there are still questions as to when it will start to carry passengers: District Source, Greater Greater Washington, The Washington Post. Girl Meets Food tried out Sona Creamery‘s new Elder-Spring Royal Cocktail. Famous DC shared the news about X2: The Movie. […]
I have written before of the church that once stood just south of the Capitol; on its use by the Israel Bethel congregation; and on how it played host to the mustering of the 1st Regiment, United States Colored Troops in 1863. As next month I will be giving a tour of the Hill which […]