The hot dog man — he is the best thing you don’t know about at Eastern Market! While others are lining up at Market Lunch, you’ll find me at the south side of the Union Meat Company counter, where I can get an all beef hot dog, soda and chips for a steal — $2.50 […]
When THIH began this Things We Take for Granted Series I was really challenged to find something I really take for granted here on the Hill. Sure I love living here but I cheat on the Hill all the time for certain must-haves that the Hill doesn’t offer like Trader Joes or my favorite yoga studio in Logan […]
Usually, everyone gets along here out on the streets and among the blocks and blogs and bustling listservs of the Hill; they merrily meet and contribute to school fundraising efforts, dress up together for Hill-o-ween, laugh at jokes in local shops, get spotted for a wallet left at home, are lucky enough to greet someone […]
You, long-time resident of Capitol Hill, may or may not have ever eaten at Las Placitas. If you have, you more than likely agree with me that it’s an awesome little restaurant. (Unless you are joyless and heartless, in which case I cannot help you. I kid, I kid.) If you don’t, you may wonder […]
This is a quickie. It takes such a short amount of time, I don’t think of it. It is over before you know it, and yet it is something you remember forever (or I do). So, it is something many of us take for granted — walking to school. The Hill’s neighborhood elementary schools take […]