Last Saturday night, November 16th, neighbors and local business owners gathered at the Stars and Stripes Club at Nationals Park to celebrate the 2013 Hilly Awards. I was proud to be able to present one award, and to help celebrate all of our great local businesses. You nominated and voted, and here are this year’s […]
In the past, large traveling shows were an important part of American life. No matter where you lived, at least once a year a fair or a circus would set up in an empty lot and bring a whiff of the outside world to you. Washington D.C. was no exception in this regard. And for […]
For anyone who has been even vaguely following the saga of the DC Streetcar, you know that the nearly-mythical cars are to be powered by overhead wires, like most systems in the rest of the world. These H Street wires were and still are controversial because of a presumed ban on overhead wires in the original […]
On DonRockwell.com, Nizam Ali, Co-Owner of Ben’s Chili Bowl, responded to questions about the decision to raze the building on H Street where the new Ben’s Chili Bowl will be going (via H Street Great Street) Urban Turf shared renderings of a new “boutique condo project” coming to Hill East. EatMore DrinkMore reviewed the newly opened […]
What with it being Veterans Day, and thus time for a rerun, it is appropriate to celebrate the man who followed John Philip Sousa. So, once more, the story of Francisco Fanciulli.