Happy Black Friday! Hope you’re getting all the deals you want, but please save some room for our beloved local stores. These one-of-a-kind, independently owned emporiums of wonderful are your neighbors and the people who make this neighborhood bold, brilliant and unique. Please make sure that you stop by and shop on Small Business Saturday, […]
With Thanksgiving in the air, it seemed to behoove me to look at how Capitol Hill has celebrated this holiday over the years. The easiest way to research this was in the Library of Congress’s huge collection of newspapers from throughout our history. It turns out that little happens on Capitol Hill on Thanksgiving. This […]
Arrests and other crime information in the area, directly from MPD. If you have a tip, you can always call 202-727-9099. You can also send info anonymously to the TEXT TIP LINE by texting 50411. Crime Solvers of Washington, DC currently offers a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and indictment […]
From myself and Robert and our families to all of you and yours, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving holiday. Without our readers, we wouldn’t exist. Without our neighbors and our cherished neighborhood, we wouldn’t have a reason to exist in the first place. Wherever you are and with whomever you celebrate this special holiday, […]
This weekend, we celebrated 150 years of a wonderful landmark and gathering place (THIH, WTOP), and we said farewell to a stalwart of the community, former Capitol Hill Books owner and forever curmudgeon Morton “Jim” Toole (DCist). We really loved Washingtonian’s sendoff, because if there was one unifying thread in the Jim experience is that […]