One of the best reasons to get out your camera in Washington is quickly fading, or should I say falling? Robert Frost would surely remind us that nothing gold can stay, and the blossoms surely would lose most their charm if they did. Sure, they’re splendid on the Tidal Basin but shoot some pics in […]
When you think of areas with bars on the Hill today, it’s usually in terms of Pennsylvania Avenue, 8th and 7th Streets, and H Street. Back in the day, there were of course also the late, lamented corner bars, but there was also another strip of bars in what – today – seems a surprising […]
Guest contributor Dare Johnson Wenzler is a Capitol Hill resident, Realtor and co-owner of First Vine Wine Imports + Sales. This post also appears on her blog Real Estate On (and off!) the Hill. It’s getting harder and harder to find nice condos in the $300s these days. That’s why my heart skipped a beat […]
Not possible, right? How could our neighborhood be too amazing, too spectacular, too much fun?? Well, all those things mean buying a house is also getting too expensive. Last March, my husband and I started looking for a new house and we were adamant about wanting to stay on the Hill. We had outgrown the […]
Spring is here and with it hoards of tourists and protesters. Such is the privilege of living here in the Nation’s Capital. So how will we avoid all of the cherry blossom peepers this weekend? Tonight at 8pm the International Contemporary Ensemble is back at the Atlas. Last year this new-classical supergroup led by the certified MacArthur genius Claire Chase, […]