Sometime last month, I attended an event at the yet-to-be-opened Chesapeake Room and though there was no food service at that event, I already loved the atmosphere and of course the large, tented patio on the corner of 8th Street SE and E Street SE. The Chesapeake Room officially opened for business Memorial Day weekend, […]
How is this second official day of summer treating you, dear readers? The thing I have the hardest time with when the temperatures spike into the 90s is that my office cranks up the A/C so much I want to pull out my winter sweaters and gloves. But if I dress to stay warm at […]
Okay, I have a confession to make. Thursday’s “ARTventures On H” art walk sponsored by CHAMPS, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, is a bit of a blur to me. For those of you who didn’t attend the walk (or also have fuzzy memories), 12 galleries and art spaces invited the public in from 5-7:30pm […]
Scorching. Blistering. Fry an egg on the sidewalk…are you sick of the heat talk yet? I am. Oh it was a super-hot one and no, actually, it wasn’t the humidity it was just bloody H.O.T. How did the THIHers manage the heat?
PEnnsylvania 6-5000. ENterprise 4-3200. KLondike 5-1212. LIncoln 7-2321. You may remember some of these from a time long ago: This was how phone numbers were communicated in the days before the telephone company thought you could remember 7 – or even 10 – numbers. The last is of interest here, because it was the exchange […]