If you have a couple of hours to kill, I can highly recommend the website Shorpy. Filled with pictures from bygone eras, it captures everything from the earth-shaking to the mundane. I was happily paging through it the other day when I came across a picture of a rather ordinary wooden building with two men […]
Two years seems like it was yesterday to me, and indeed, some of our stories might have been posted yesterday, like those from this week in 2011. Who would have guessed we’d still be waiting for plans to be finalized for the development project at Hine Middle School? Well, certainly, the less optimistic of us […]
Happy August everyone! As usual the summer is flying by but don’t despair there is still plenty of summer left so get out there and enjoy yourself! Tonight get your Gilbert and Sullivan on at CHAW. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop presents the beloved operetta The Pirates of Penzance. You can never tire of “I […]
Setting out to dominate the south side of the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Spike Mendelsohn’s new concept strayed from the comfort/fast food food formula and ventured a bit more upscale: Béarnaise, located at 315 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, is a steak-and-frites bistro with a well-stocked bar. Formerly in the space of Thai Roma (which […]
The Washington Post published a really powerful piece on the Maslins. ANC 6B Commissioner Kirsten Oldenburg posted a detour map for the upcoming 11th Street road closures. DCist reviewed H Street Housewives at the Capital Fringe Festival. Curbed posted a poll to see what neighborhood name people prefered for Near Southeast; “Navy Yard” beat out […]