12 Dec 2012

Nosy Neighbors

A roundup of interesting miscellany from our fellow neighborhood bloggers. Still trying to find some gifts, even after reading our gift guides for the kid at heart, the kitchen, and even pets? Borderstan has recommendations on where to shop for baby, and for the coffee lover.  Penn Quarter Living is also starting their own gifting […]


11 Dec 2012

All I Want for Christmas: Better Intersections (Near My House)

Capitol Hill is a great place for pedestrians. Most of the time. Those of us who are car-less, or in one-car families, and dependent on our feet, our bikes or our weighed-down strollers cross a lot of intersections to make it home safely. And a few of them in my neck of the woods are […]


11 Dec 2012

The 2012 Brickies

On Friday, Councilmember Wells handed out the Brickies, otherwise known as the Livable Walkable Awards.  The awards recognize individuals, organizations, businesses and spaces that make Ward 6 a desirable environment for all manner of people and uses.  This is the first year that Ward 6 includes the Shaw neighborhood, so Wellslandia has crept further into […]


11 Dec 2012

Hill Buzz

Taylor Gourmet’s newest venture, Taylor Charles Steak & Ice opens Wednesday!  More from Young & Hungry, H Street Great Street and Frozen Tropics. Fear not, Philadelphia Water Ice is not closed.  Frozen Tropics explains. Eater DC and Frozen Tropics reported that Neil Patrick Harris (also well known as Barney Stinson and Doogie Howser) dined at Toki […]


10 Dec 2012

Lost Capitol Hill: Getting here from there in 1802 (pt 2)

Last week, I introduced the “Traveller’s Directory, or a Pocket Companion Shewing the Course of the Main Road From Philadelphia to New York and From Philadelphia to Washington with Descriptions of the Places Through Which It Passes, and the Intersections of the Cross Roads,” and promised to look more closely at the route described therein. […]


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