Hello there! It’s a beautiful early afternoon that can only be made better by the delicious, sticky knowledge that we are becoming an ice cream parlor mecca: Eat DC shared updated views of Captain Cookie and the Milkman, which is opening on Thursday. Eater DC reported that Maryland-based ice creamers Moorenko’s will open a Capitol […]
Good early afternoon, DC! Even though this blog is all about Capitol Hill (and surrounding areas), I want to give a heartfelt shoutout to those of you who still consider the Hill to be home, even as you hang your hat elsewhere. What’s up? I realize many of you are not parents, but for those […]
Good morning to all the neighbors working to wake up and become aware of the systemic racism that has oppressed so many of our neighbors– and to them only. Let’s talk for a brief moment about the video originally shared by the Hill Rag, showing a man in his 50s yelling at a group of […]
Friend of the blog and Capitol Hill neighbor Christine Vineyard, an art teacher and artist also known as Lidflutters, was distressed to find out that one of her former students, Saige Ballard, was killed this past Thursday, June 11, as she left a party. The incident happened a couple of blocks away from Stanton Park. […]
A little over a week ago, on the evening of May 25, 2020, a man called George Floyd paid for cigarettes with what appeared to be a counterfeit $20 bill. The employees of the Cup Store in Minneapolis, where he’d just purchased the cigarettes, confronted him but he was not forthcoming, so they called the […]