Local filmmaker Michael Skinner, founder of the Hill’s Pendragwn Productions, has embarked on his most ambitious project to date. He and his very small crew are currently in the Sudan shooting a documentary titled We Are the Ones. The film will focus on a group of former Sudanese Lost Boys who have decided to return […]
Sigh. Oh winter, you hold such promise of sleigh rides and frosty noses. In DC’s oppressive summer heat we dream of sweaters, snuggling and fireside cocoa. In reality most folks are about done with winter by the end of January…Valentine’s Day at the latest. However the pleasures of Spring still elude us. It will be […]
A piece of Capitol Hill will soon have an outpost in New York City. Hometown designer Jon Wye will be opening his first bricks-and-mortar shop in Chelsea this spring. To him it is a scary prospect, but for anyone who has seen the amazing storytelling in his mural belts, t-shirts and other accessories — or […]
The Hill is Home had its ear out this week for initiatives to support the Haitian earthquake relief effort, and found some generous and creative ways Hill’s residents, even its youngest citizens, are raising money and emptying their piggy banks for charities providing help in ravaged Haiti. Watkins Elementary, in the 400 block of 12th Street, […]
Most of us have those moments, where a brilliant idea we once had (and did nothing about) is later brought to successful fruition by…someone else. So when I learned of the existence of Curbside Cupcakes early last fall I had one of these “I could kick myself!” moments. Someone else had already done it! And […]