Hello there! Hope you’re surviving this frosty weather. Here are a few links that may interest you this week: Councilmember Charles Allen introduced a piece of legislation aimed at curbing scalpers– especially the worst ones, like Ticketmaster, which sell tickets and mark them up astronomically even before the venue itself gets to sell them. This […]
Hey there! Apologies for the lack of consistency with the buzz but frankly I have no idea if this is a useful thing. If you like the buzz, drop me a line at info@thehillishome.com and sometime in the next year I will probably get to your message and issue you a thank you (or a […]
Dear THIH community, One of the things that is important to us, aside from neighborhood gossip, is setting the record straight. And we’ve realized that we made a mistake with the Recall Charles Allen folks. We should have supported them and upheld them because all they wanted was to publicly punish and censor a Councilmember […]
Lightning does strike twice in the same spot because ACKCHYUALLY the odds of probability say that something that has already happened once at a particular place has higher odds of happening there again–– this is why your local corner store is so very proud to tell you that they’ve sold a winning lottery ticket. Anyway, […]
As a civic organization, the Capitol Hill Restoration Society helps protect the historic character of Capitol Hill. History lives in our buildings and architecture and prior to associations like CHRS, there was very little that could be done to prevent razing or extreme modification of houses now deemed historic. While the RFK campus is not […]