Welcome to September and to our most event-filled Set List yet! Get ready for the last Wednesday at the Wharf with Soulfire tonight as well as the kick off of City Winery’s return to live in-person shows. Like most venues in the city today, they’ll be requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test. Check […]
If you’re not a parent, you may not be following the unfolding saga of public schools reopening this week, and how many of the buildings were decidedly not ready to welcome children back. Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen took tours around local schools, sometimes accompanied by SBOE rep Jessica Sutter. Here are a few tweets […]
It’s the last day of August, 2021, and schools are officially back in person. Are you holding your breath or sighing with relief? Or a little bit of both? What’s going on this week? Mayor Bowser chose to ring in the new school year with a ribbon-cutting at Eliot-Hine Middle School yesterday. Members of her […]
One of the things that makes the Hill a fun place to live is the creativity and playfulness that owners put on display outside their homes. From sculptures to Little Libraries to Little Art Galleries to many other forms of self-expression, Hill front yards are waiting to be discovered. Last week, on the occasion of […]
I have written many times about the taverns and bars that were so important to Capitol Hill in its earliest years, and I am constantly drawn back to this subject. Today, we will look at a bar named Our House, which was in the middle of (8th) Street. Pre-Civil War records are spotty, at best, […]