We’re a little behind on our reporting on this but on Monday at about 1:15 pm I received an automated text alert from Alert DC that there had been a bank robbery on the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. Local news outlets did not seem to pick up the story, but we now have […]
This past July I issued myself a challenge: to spend an entire month doing all my shopping and entertaining on the Hill. I won’t lie — I had mulled over the things that might cause me to cheat, like going to a movie theater or needing a new pair of running shoes, but I never […]
Thanksgiving in DC is one of my favorite things in the world. More so than any other holiday, it feels like the city really empties out leaving a skeleton crew of locals, barflies and people who are smart enough to realize that nothing ruins a holiday faster than time spent on I-95. Wander into a […]
There needs to be a new dress code called “First Hilly.” It’s neither dressy casual or brunch chic, nor Sunday mass, Barracks Row funky, office Christmas party or Embassy Row redux. Yet, the Friday night celebration of the first annual Hilly awards given by our local chamber of commerce, CHAMPS, seemed to have elements of all of these. Which […]