Happy 10-year anniversary to JDLand! Eater DC confirmed that Hank’s reopened over the weekend after last week’s fire on the building’s roof. The New York Times thinks that trendy neighborhoods like H Street only came to be because of Obama and the young people who moved here to work for his administration. JDLand reported that […]
Well, really 99 years, 10 months and 14 days ago. March 4, 1913, the day that Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as President, replacing our fattest president, William Howard Taft. It was a day filled with bunting. It was a day filled with speeches. It was a day without an inaugural ball, which Wilson felt […]
I think we’ve all heard stories about a startup video and online fundraising campaign that launches a small business or creative artist’s latest project. They’re just the type of populist, bootstrapping stories we all love. A personal favorite is one my husband ran across a year ago: Dollar Shave Club. (Yeah, its Friday, so go […]
Early this morning the DC Fire Department responded to reports of flames coming from the roof of Hanks on the Hill, located at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. According to NBC4, one person suffered minor injuries. Firefighters have not indicated what started the fire, or how extensive the damage is. Walking by this morning, it did not […]
Few of us are conscious of living in history. History, rather, is something that happens in the past and is the realm of those that went before us. We read about it, watch it on TV, visit the sites, but it is, to abuse the old saying, a foreign country. Even when we witness something […]