Archive for the ‘The Hill’ Category

We Love Food: Taqueria Nacional

‘Taquira Nacional’ courtesy of ‘needlessspaces’ The first step to healing, is admitting you have a problem, right? Well, people, here is my admission: I am addicted to Taqueria Nacional. Its draw to me is more powerful than Potbelly’s was when I used to work near 17th & L (best Potbelly’s location ever) and those of [...]

We Love Drinks: Wisdom

When Wisdom owner Erik Holzherr’s Tortoise and the Bare cocktail won the 2009 Artini competition, it took a lot of people by surprise (as in, who is this guy and where exactly is his bar??). I knew I had to get over to sample his concoctions as quickly as I could get someone to venture [...]

A Very Very DC Party: 100 Days

There are some parties that pretty much scream “DEEEEEE CEEEEEE” and this is one. There’s a big party tomorrow night over at Brown Rudnick that will be both job fair and 100-Days celebration, complete with audience-compiled report card. $20 gets you in, and there’s an open bar, which is pretty much the holy grail of [...]

Ticketed In Your Driveway?

A Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton, courtesy of Tom Bridge This weekend, DC bloggers from DCist, Greater Greater Washington and We Love DC, amongst others, got a chance to sit down with DC’s Delegate to the Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton this past weekend and talk about DC Voting Rights, the recent support for Gay Marriage among the DC [...]

Capitol Visitors Center Evacuated Briefly

Upwards to the CapitolOriginally uploaded by tbridge Details are a bit sketchy at this point, but Gawker is reporting that the Capitol Visitors Center has been evacuated: Be the first to like. Like Unlike

Hacking The Government (For Good, Not Evil)

‘Open Government Data Session Tack-on Free For All’ courtesy of ‘illustir’ The hackers and do-gooders at Sunlight Labs are coordinating their first ever Open Government hackathon from March 29th to March 31st. Although the event takes place in Chicago (at PyCon2009 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare hotel) there will also be an online presence, [...]

Inspiration DC’s Candid Strangers Project

‘Day 58: Candid Strangers Project’ courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’ I blog a lot about my friend Rebecca, over at Inspiration DC. She writes a local blog full of gorgeous photographs and interesting things around DC that inspire her. Her most recent project, the Candid Strangers project, gives us a peek at the heart and personalities of [...]

D.C.’s Big Beer Ban

Participation Lager… Originally uploaded by dharmabumx Well folks, it seems, much like the application of parking rates, D.C.’s leadership have painted with a large brush in order to solve a detailed problem. On February 9th, the D.C. Council enacted, at the behest of of several ANC members, a ban on the sale of single bottles [...]

Local Baristas Clean Up

A Modest Proposal for Apple in DC

Fire at the Madison Building?

Inaugupocalypse: Being the Belle of the Ball

So the Balls have (mostly) come and gone, but I think it’s still worth sharing advice of what I did right, what I did wrong, and what I wouldn’t do again when it comes to Inaugural Balls. Be the first to like. Like Unlike

The Scene at Union Station

With most of Union Station’s Grand Hall reserved for tonight’s inaugural ball, and the Metro station and rail concourse already packed to capacity, the crowd entering Union Station had to be divided into Metro, Amtrak, and MARC/VRE riders. Confusion reigned outside as the Columbus Circle road was closed off, forcing people to circle around sidewalks [...]

Senators Byrd, Kennedy Taken to Hospital

Monumental: James Abram Garfield

You know how you have a favorite president growing up? Like, you get assigned the guy, knowing he’s not one of the big five, but he turns out to be interesting in his own right? Meet mine, James Abram Garfield. I think it was in Mrs. Franti’s third-grade class that we all had to do [...]

Somebody Going To Emergency, Somebody’s Going To Jail

Kilmainham Jail (Gaol) by Sean Munson There’s Politics, there’s politics, and then there’s Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Illinois. He was arrested this morning on a Federal warrant for corruption charges. You can read the press release (PDF) or you can read the whole complaint (PDF). It reads like a bad novel. Seriously, writers couldn’t make [...]

A Marriage Equality Protest, this Saturday

There seems to be a sizable across-the-nation protest shaping up for this weekend. In our area it’ll be in front of the Capital, of course, but there are sites listed in Baltimore and Richmond as well. Here’s hoping the 2,500 maybe-attending folks listed on the DC protest’s Facebook page will brave the rain and make [...]

The New Capitol Visitors Center

CRW_0739 by tbridge The new Capitol Visitors Center is due to open in another three weeks or so, but we got a sneak peek yesterday at the brand new CVC and Emancipation Hall. The new Visitors Center began its project life as an extended above-ground addition to the Capitol, but over its design process, changed [...]

Now That’s Gotta Be a View

Especially right now with all of DC’s amazing arbor turning gold and red, the view from the Dome of the Capitol Rotunda must be pretty much amazing. I caught these folks the other day getting a tour from their Member of Congress. See, that’s how you get up to the very tippy top of the [...]