If money were no object, we would pick party dresses off gilded racks like fruit off trees, order up dresses for the grand ball from couture dressmakers in Milan and Paris or over at those glassy buzz-in boutiques flanking Mazza Gallerie, but this being Capitol Hill circa 2009, both savvy and thrift prevail. The economic downturn of the […]
Hark! The time for holiday portrait-taking is nigh among Hill residents, families or couples who want just the right note of casual bonhomie, ironic urbanite and transplanted plains folk captured in photo form to send onward to relatives and friends far and wide and across the park this season. The Hill is Home’s fashion scavenger […]
Halloween is over and it is now time to put away our costumes. Or is it? We all know the well-coordinated families who trick-or-treat as a theme: say, they are all pirates, a robot family, a root vegetable family or the cast of the Wizard of Oz, or the Cat in the Hat, for example. Well, put those […]
All the best adjectives of the season go to the leaves. Deep, rich, vibrant, stunning, shimmering, splendid, glorious, spectacular… But what are we on the Hill, below these fantastic headdresses of the season, adorned with as the temperature slides between various degrees of chilly? Fleece. Sure, it is cozy, and it isn’t flannel, as flannel […]
Having heard that Barracks Row, 8th Street, was now a destination, where wrinkle-free, polished shiny people alighted after-hours to nudge aside us Hill townies to make the street their scene, I blithely embarked on an outing down the block with my Nebraska-raised friend, Laura, one recent Indian summer evening. An earlier visit to Matchbox that […]