This week’s column should be more accurately called a Found Capitol Hill column, for it is about something I found that belongs to a long-ago era, when Washington DC was home to the best baseball team in the country.
19
Sep
2011
This week’s column should be more accurately called a Found Capitol Hill column, for it is about something I found that belongs to a long-ago era, when Washington DC was home to the best baseball team in the country.
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 […]
It looks like Xavier Cervera’s taste for owning a chunk of Capitol Hill is expanding beyond Barracks Row and Eastern Market. It was announced yesterday the Hawk ‘n’ Dove will close this fall, undergo some substantial renovations, and reopen next spring under Cervera’s ownership. Yes, one of the oldest drinking holes on the Hill will […]
In looking at the movie theaters that were built on Capitol Hill over the years, there are three distinct phases: At first, theaters were built on main drags: 8th Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, H Street. Then, as demand grew and theaters proliferated, they were built in and among the residences. Finally, as color spectacles became the […]
As Congress continues to stay indoors trying to work out the country’s debt limit, trying to stay cool while tempers heat up, it’s time to look at how they’ve managed to keep the temperature in the Capitol at a reasonable level over the last 80 years.