04 Jul 2012

This is a Capitol Hill Fourth (and really, a DC Fourth)

  My friend texts me, “What time do things start at Lincoln Park?” I text back. It usually starts around 10 pm– the good part, that is. But really, the show at Lincoln Park takes up the whole evening; even before the sun is considering setting, thousands of people mill about the park watching a […]


26 Oct 2011

Howl-O-Ween this Saturday

Don’t you wish you could get more mileage out of the wicked awesome Halloween costume each year?  If you feel that way, just think about how Rover feels only getting to pretend to be Superman or a hot dog or whatever one day a year.  Since you are dressing up your pooch on Halloween and our […]


04 Oct 2011

Slow Down, Maryland Drivers: Tomorrow is Walk to School Day

Tomorrow is International Walk to School Day, or, as we call it on the Hill, Wednesday. I mean, really, how is this different from any other day for us? Well, we can have a little party, that’s how. Tomorrow morning, students (and presumably some of their parents) from twelve Hill schools will gather at Lincoln […]


20 Sep 2011

Mr. Wells, Tear Down this Bike Station!

Today marks the one year anniversary of Capitol Bikeshare, the nation’s largest public bike sharing system (at least until those laggards up in New York finally catch up). Which means it’s been a bit under a year that residents of Lincoln Park have had to suffer the cruel indignity of having 15 bikes foisted upon them. No longer […]


12 Sep 2011

Lost Capitol Hill: Lincoln's Copper Carbonate

  While I was escaping the heat of DC this summer, a great change came over Lincoln Park: The Emancipation Statue there was cleaned up and about 100 years of copper carbonate was removed from it, changing it from a statue with a greenish cast to a deep brown. I didn’t watch the transformation, but […]


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