It turns out that when you only have one liquor license request to deal with on the ANC agenda, you can actually get through the meeting in under two hours! This was the first meeting for newly sworn-in commissioners, Ivan Frishberg, Brian Pate, Brian Flahaven and Jared Critchfield. Neil Glick has replaced David Garrison as […]
I’m not a fan of chain stores and restaurants, and avoid them when I can. But with the absence of a coffee shop/cafe in Hill East (other than the one inside Safeway), I’ve found myself wishing even FourBucks or Caribou Coffee would set up shop. Not likely, but now we neighbors have the chance to […]
Much is made of the fact that the Marine Commandant’s House is the oldest continually-operated Federal building in DC. It has stood at the north end of the Marine Barracks since 1806, five years after the Barracks were built. The Barracks themselves, which run down the east and west side of the Square, are much […]
His name is John Matthews, but to many residents in Southeast DC he’s known as “Peter Bug,” a nod to a Volkswagen beetle he’s been driving for years. Now, in addition to his nickname, John Matthews will also be known for having the 400 block of 13th Street SE named in his honor. “Peterbug Matthews […]
Capitol Hill has a couple favorite sons that are well-known: J. Edgar Hoover and John Philip Sousa come to mind. But there’s also some whose connection to the Hill are not nearly as well known. One of these is the General whose reply to a German request to surrender has become world famous as a […]