24 Jun 2011

If You Renovate It, Will Buyers Come?

Guest contributor Jessica Wilkie is a Hill resident and Realtor with DCRealEstate.com. In Trinidad, NE, they do. Trinidad real estate has picked up lately as investors buy run-down properties for cash, fix them up, and turn them over for profit. This year,* average second quarter “sold” prices are already well above 2010 and 2009, when […]


24 Jun 2011

KNIT-IN at Jimmy Valentine's

Cross-posted from What the Hill. Calling all knitters and yarn enthusiasts! Jimmy Valentine’s Lonely Hearts Club will be participating CHAMPS’ next ARTventures on H (6/30) in quite a unique way. They’re letting us YARN BOMB them! Now, this is no small feat, so we need your help! In order for us to seriously bomb the […]


24 Jun 2011

Yard Sale Open Thread

The weekend forecast calls for sunny skies with temps in the mid-80’s.  Sounds like the perfect conditions for a yard sale!  If you’re planning a sale this weekend, tell us all about it in the comments: when, where and what treasures we will stumble upon.


24 Jun 2011

Weekend East City Event Round Up: Around the World in an Evening Edition

Friday June 24 Studio H (6-9pm) This Friday at Studio H, do not miss the opening of Impressions of Uzbekistan by Dutch Painter Ronald Kleijer.  Kleijer’s work focuses on capturing daily life in the fabled cities of the Silk Road in his adopted home of Uzbekistan.  This will be Kleijer’s first exhibition in the United […]


23 Jun 2011

Starfish Closes, Lavagna Coming Soon

If you’ve taken a stroll up 8th Street recently, you may have noticed that Starfish Café is officially closed. Some new owners recently came in and will be turning the space into Trattoria Lavagna, an Italian restaurant based in New York City. The folks behind the new restaurant shared with me, “With a clean slate […]


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