We’re still waiting for these two new places (Chesapeake Room on Barracks Row and Biergarten Haus on H St. NE) to open up. Biergarten Haus’s opening is delayed again, and their plan to open this weekend has been delayed once more. The tweet that DCRA sent out earlier letting us know that a power outage […]
Peter Bug day is an annual tradition on Capitol Hill, taking place at the Peter Bug Shoe Repair Academy at 13th and E Streets SE and the adjacent Watkins and Buchanan Parks. Celebrating “Unity in the Community,” this year’s party will feature a parade starting at 10 am beginning at 19th and E Streets SE […]
Currently, my living room is host to three boxes, four garbage bags and a wicker basket full of clothes, tchotchkes and aspirational sporting goods for our yard sale this weekend. And I still have to get a couple of bins from the attic. It’s a yearly tradition with our neighbors — out with the old […]
Eastern Market’s North Hall was vibrating with excitement, quite literally, on Tuesday evening. The Capitol Hill Community Foundation’s Great Grants Giveaway opened with a performance by two drummers from Step Afrika!. If you happened to be walking by, you couldn’t miss the all-encompassing beat, or the smiles of grantees. Each year in the spring and […]
“Is there a hyperlocal blog about Capitol Hill?” was the message I sent into the ether of the HillEast listserv just over a year ago. I thought despite being pretty plugged in, surely I had missed something, and since local news blogs had been popping up throughout the city for the last few years, Capitol […]