Since gift guides are extremely popular this year and our friends at Eastern Market Main Street shared a very comprehensive one with us, we decided to focus on a few of our favorite businesses and give you shopping ideas. Enjoy! During a recent windy Saturday, I ducked into one of our newest shops around Eastern […]
Gifts are well-intentioned efforts to be generous to other people and gift guides can be a lot of fun to write. This year, I am doing away with the pretense that it’s possible to put yourself in the shoes of anyone else but yourself: a good gift should be something you want to give to yourself in the […]
It’s December 15 across the land. This means you technically have 9 shopping days until Christmas. You missed the boat on Hanukkah, but it’s the thought that counts; Kwanzaa is 11 days away; and you can give gifts up until January 6th because that’s when the Magi supposedly brought presents to baby Jesus. But let […]
Capitol Hill is full of great places to seek out a gift for that guy (or guys) in your life. We may not have a lot of options for electronics and clothing, but there are places to find unique and manly options to wrap and place under the tree in the next couple of weeks. […]
Whether you’re shopping for the chef who has everything or someone who’s just learning kitchen basics, there are plenty of Hill Holiday gift items for the cook. Of course any holiday shopping trip wouldn’t be complete without a visit to Hill’s Kitchen. The local shop carries a number of kitchenware products, some unique to Capitol […]