File this in the category of “things I never thought I’d see, much less see on Capitol Hill.” Saturday morning hundreds of professional and amateur puppeteers gathered in Lincoln Park for the start of the “Million Puppet March.” Originally organized as a protest against a certain presidential candidate’s stance on funding public television (and one […]
The Virginia Avenue is the railway tunnel currently getting all the press, but there’s actually a second, lesser-known, tunnel used by railways under Capitol Hill (and I don’t mean the little trains connected the Capitol with the congressional office buildings, either) No, it’s a tunnel that goes from Union Station south and west.
Guest contributor Dare Johnson Wenzler is a Capitol Hill resident, Realtor and co-owner of First Vine Wine Imports + Sales. This post also appears on her blog Real Estate On (and off!) the Hill. Depending on where you live on the Hill, you may be right in the line of fire for some type of […]
When I hear about the millions the District spends on police presence at all of the marches and political rallies held in our dear city, I get a little crazy. That said, I’m fully behind the Million Puppet March that starts at 10 a.m. from Lincoln Park on Saturday. Actually, I’m really envious of the […]
How did everyone do last night? From the looks of it Capitol Hill fared pretty well in comparison to some of our neighbors to the north, but there’s still plenty of clean-up work from the debris and water damage leftover by Sandy. Here’s a report from Metropolitan Police Department’s Commander Daniel Hickson, summing up last […]