It’s hard to say which is more tempting about the upcoming School-Within-a-School at Peabody Jazz Gala & Auction: the tasty vittles or the diverse items on the block. Each year I get tons of invitations to attend neighborhood school auctions to bid on items like those offered by SWS (hands off the coveted seasonal membership […]
No offense dinner, but sometimes you are merely just a formality before dessert. I love sugar. This is mostly attributed (although not scientifically) to the cake decorating class my mother took while pregnant with me, thereby ensuring that the desire for frosting would be forever sealed into my DNA. Here at The Hill is Home […]
As the winter weather begins to retreat, two major exhibitions, one at the Brentwood Arts Exchange and one at G Fine art, close this weekend. While the camellias, daffodils and cherry blossoms announce the spring, Studio H opens its first show of the year and Art Whino will begin a monthly festival at the Yards […]
It’s time for another installment of “Spring Gala School Fundraisers” where we let you know about the many fun and tasty opportunities to support local schools. This week we are focusing on Brent Elementary. Brent is a nationally recognized Museum Magnet public school. Each year the Brent PTA hosts a foodie-focused event called Taste of the Hill […]
So, as I’m walking my kid and her friends to school the other morning, the conversation turns, as it’s wont to do with today’s six year-old set, to the impending testing regime, or the DC Comprehensive Assessment System, known popularly to them as DC-CAS. As the thread had segued from a previous discussion of Super […]