We just received word that the H Street Shuttle will be resuming service tomorrow night, Friday, December 18th. The shuttle shut down on December 6 because its initial funding dried up and there were no longer funds to keep it running. According to a press release from the H Street Cooperative, “the Department of Transportation […]
It’s that time of year again hungry Hillers. The time of year when restaurants are preparing to settle into the winter dearth of diners (the “I spent all my moolah on a Wii, or Kindle, or Garnet Hill cashmere, LL Bean gear, at Hill’s Kitchen, etc.” kind). A number of years back the New York […]
I fell in love with the District during my first visit to Eastern Market, but when my husband and I decided to settle down, we told our real estate agent that we wanted to look at condos closer to the downtown core. After weeks of looking at small, uninhabitable condos our agent suggested we look […]
Night had come to the town of Alton, Illinois and a crowd began to gather in the darkness. Some of the men stooped to gather stones. Others fingered the triggers of the guns they carried as they made their way to a warehouse on the banks of the Mississippi River. Such begins a report from […]
This year I was reluctant to decorate our Christmas tree. I knew that when it came time to open the box filled with our most treasured ornaments I would find the ornaments my mom bought the summer of 2008, before the doctors discovered that the cancer had invaded her brain, before the chemo and radiation, […]