Last week, I wrote about the visit of President Fillmore to the Navy Yard, and how he had the opportunity to watch the hull of the ill-fated Water Witch be battered by cannon fire. Continuing my research on this poor vessel, I discovered that such a spectacle was hardly reserved just for Presidential visits, but […]
Contributor Dare Johnson Wenzler is a Capitol Hill resident, Realtor at Compass Real Estate and co-owner of First Vine Wine Imports + Sales. This post also appears on her blog Real Estate On (and off!) the Hill. Ever experience kitchen envy? If you haven’t, you will after you see 139 E St SE! Listed at $1.225M, you almost […]
As if ice cream delivery were not enough to make this day the best yet, along comes National Tequila Day. Really. A quick polling of the Twitter reveals that Chupacabra DC, 822 H Street NE, has tequila shots, margaritas and not one but TWO happy hours going on tonight! The first one starts at 4:30 p.m. […]
I’m not entirely sure what makes an enormous machine so exciting and compelling, but I can’t seem to get enough of DC Water’s tunnel boring machines with their delightful names and sassy attitudes. After two years of mining, excavating, and digging a four-mile tunnel to help improve the water quality in the Anacostia River, Lady […]
Today in News You Can Use, Diet Be Damned: It’s #UberIceCream day! That’s right: today, July 24, starting at 11 am and running until 5 pm, you can request ice cream via Uber, and it will arrive in all its creamy deliciousness. You just set your location and request ICE CREAM. If you are a Capital […]