Every year this one seems to catch me off guard – I get up on a Saturday morning ready to run errands all over the city only to find half of the streets shut down for the National Marathon. I recommend rescheduling your errands that require a car for Saturday afternoon or Sunday, and making […]
Neighbors who were on hand at the monthly meeting of the DC Charter School Board (DCCSB) meeting on Tuesday night are hopeful their testimony against the University High Public Charter High School (UHS) was effective, but the fate of the property at 13th & C Streets Southeast won’t be announced until mid April. There is […]
In case you were stuck in your office yesterday, like yours truly, and had to miss the elephant parade, some of our lovely readers shared some great photos in our Flickr Group. Thank you to aperryproductions and Madame Meow for the great pictures!
The recent announcement of an Aldi grocery store coming to Hechinger Mall sparked a, shall we say, robust discussion on Frozen Tropics of the relative merits of various grocery stores. Grocery store wars are nothing new on neighborhood blogs and listserves, and it’s easy to understand why. Nothing is nearer or dearer to our heart […]
This spring is about to get much yummier around Capitol Hill. Along with the many new restaurants on 8th Street, sweetgreen will open its fifth location on the 200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE in the space that used to be Trovers Bookshop. If you have never been to sweetgreen, or had the joy of […]