A while back, I wrote about the Washington Brewery Company, and mentioned that it grew out of the Humphreys and Juenemann operation from the late 1850s. At the time, however, the archives of the Washington Evening Star were not yet online, which meant that data from the pre-Civil War era was hard to find. With […]
Washington Business Journal reported that Events DC is starting to study various options for what to do with RFK Stadium, and Curbed DC ran a poll to see what readers think the city should do. JDLand recapped news that the Nationals asked the city to pay $300 million to put a roof on the ballpark, and […]
Next year marks the 200th anniversary when Washington burned in the War of 1812. It also marks the 150th anniversary when Confederate forces attacked Fort Stevens, a Civil War outpost located near Missouri and Georgia Avenue, NW. I will return to these two important moments in history many times in the next months and year, but first I want […]
All done with your Thanksgiving feast? Have you finished correcting everyone that it’s the “Macy’s THANKSGIVING Day Parade” and not simply the Macy’s Day Parade? Done extolling the virtues of apple pie over pumpkin, or, God forbid, pecan? Well good. Time to swap out our A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for A Charlie Brown Christmas. Which requires, in […]
It’s inevitable; guests are about to arrive and you realize that you are missing some crucial ingredient. Or maybe the guests have already taken over your house and you are in desperate need of a break so you claim to need more eggs, milk, wine… No matter what it is you really need, when it […]