I looked on in wide-eyed wonderment — a less damaging alternative to my procerus muscle than creasing my brow in constant befuddlement — while at the Botox or Bangs event at Mickey Bolek’s Michael Anthony Salon across from Eastern Market on C Street SE. The event drew both hotties and hippies, sometimes in the same […]
Some of us are more together when it comes to dinnertime: those who are, draw up charts and maps and do weekly menus. The shopping happens rigorously and religiously– ironically, to some, on Sunday. Others among us are, shall we say, constantly flying by the seat of our pants. We rush out to the store […]
I was in line somewhere in the Metro area, a museum I recall, and turned to ask a relaxed, jeans and untucked oxford-wearing woman behind me where she lived on the Hill. “I don’t,” she said. Yet, she had that “Hill look” that makes some people far away look as if they are our neighbors […]
I’ll admit from the start that I am a bit biased in my review here. For some time now I have been lamenting the Hill’s lack of a good Italian restaurant that doesn’t suffer from the Olive Garden-tendency to think that pasta should be hidden in large mounds of cream-based sauces and then topped with […]
The Capitol Hill Community Foundation-sponsored outdoor concerts return to Eastern Market this Sunday May 2 with a performance by the group Dead Men’s Hollow. The six-person bluegrass band is making a reappearance at the outdoor venue which is a favorite of band member and Hill resident Amy Nazarov. Amy is one of the four women […]