Well, the 112th Congress opened its session on Wednesday with a low blow to their surroundings, stripping the DC Delegate of voting on the floor in Committee of the Whole matters. While this website concerns itself more with matters of the Capitol Hill neighborhood and more-or-less ignores the big-domed building in the middle, the actions […]
This week’s earlier post on the closing of Chateau Animaux reminded me again of this post from DCist from September 11, 2007 reporting the rumor that a Gap might be coming to Barracks Row. Obviously, that never happened. The DCist post had several positions for and against which all ring pretty hollow looking at the […]
Do you check your email from the bathroom? What about while dining at fancy restaurants? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Three years ago, an AOL survey found that Washington DC is the most email-addicted city in the country. About three in four Washingtonians admitted to checking their email from a restaurant. A full […]
It’s an election year and democracy is in action. Unfortunately, that includes a cadre of volunteers who show up at dinner time to ring doorbells and ask residents for signatures and donations. Many also ask for permission to post some sort of sign in your yard, and some of our fellow Hill residents enjoy collecting […]
They jet in for a PR event and are on their way out before anyone can even ask who they were wearing. But why don’t celebrities choose the District as a place to hang their hat? Don’t get me wrong — I know we have our own breed of “celebrity.” As I tell visiting friends, […]