So here we are, truly in the dog days of summer. The city’s pace has come to a crawl, and those of us who aren’t on vacation are blessed with bountiful parking spaces and open tables. (If you haven’t already, book a table to take advantage of Restaurant Week and/or H Street Eats. Both run […]
The weather hasn’t settled into any sort of understandable pattern lately, but summer rolls along steadily. DC has experienced torrential downpours, almost-tornadoes, an earthquake, power outages, and blistering heat so far. What’s next? Locusts? Maybe a freak blizzard. That almost sounds nice… Fortunately there’s still plenty to do on the Hill this weekend to take […]
Tonight is the 27th Annual National Night Out. Sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch, NNO is a community-level initiative across the US to bring together “citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials”. According to the NNO website, their objectives are to: Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; Generate […]
Did you ever think that temperatures in the high 80’s would be considered cool? Neither did I, but that was before the calendar flipped to 2010 — when we learned that 50 plus inches of snow and an exceptionally cold spring would lead into a summer of triple digit temperatures and oppressive humidity. Why not […]
I see it on the listservs every month: H Street community office hours with Tommy Wells. I’d never been because I didn’t want to get caught up in glad handing (not my forte) or find myself in an Evita-style line with people waiting to plead their case about some problem or other. The last couple […]