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Game Day on the Hill

February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Barracks Row, H Street, New Hill East, Union Station/NOMA

The big day is almost here. Depending on your fondness for football, Super Bowl Sunday is either the biggest game of the year or you’re really looking forward to a day of eating snacks. And drinking a few beers. Or maybe you just like the commercials. No matter what, this day has something for everyone. Are you [...]

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It’s Survey Time!

February 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Capitol Hill, Eastern Market, H Street

Here at The Hill is Home, we want to help you. But you need to help us first! When do you visit our site? And how often? Are there weekly posts you always read or look forward to? Please fill out the brief questionnaire and let us know a little about you and how you [...]

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Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival deal on Amazon/Living Social

January 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · H Street

Today’s deal for Living Social/Amazon is for tickets to the upcoming INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival at the Atlas. I have no idea when this weird alliance was struck between Amazon and Living Social, I just know it is one more email in my inbox each morning. But a deal is a deal and this one [...]

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The To Do List

January 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, Eastern Market, H Street

I don’t know about anyone else, but for me, this feels like the first week of the year where the holidays are really over and I’m finally getting my life back in order. So, now that you’re (hopefully) back to your regular routine, you’ll need a few Hill-centric things to do in the coming days. [...]

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Lady Gaga Practices Yoga in her Underwear and other H Street News

January 11th, 2012 · No Comments · H Street

Yesterday the Atlas Performing Arts Center hosted the Mayor, Council Chair Kwame Brown and Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells as four H Street businesses were awarded grants intended to boost retail and day time traffic along the H Street Corridor. The area’s buzzy arts and entertainment district draws many people in the evenings but the [...]

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Hill Eateries Dish During Restaurant Week

January 10th, 2012 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Capitol Hill, DC, H Street

If you haven’t gotten your fill of indulgent eating from the recent holidays you are in luck.  The winter edition of DC Restaurant Week began yesterday — Monday, January 9th — and runs through Sunday, January 15th.  (A second DC Restaurant Week is held each year in August.)  Each year tens of restaurants and bars [...]

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Because Every Great Neighborhood Has a Running Club: The H Street Runners

January 10th, 2012 · No Comments · DC, H Street, Near Northeast/Atlas District

We’re all looking a little flabby post-holidays, it’s true. Some of us may have started resolutions to eat only salads, or only green veggies, or only on even or odd days. Others may have started bets so as to shame people with slower metabolisms and weaker wills into buying rounds of bourbon or beer to [...]

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Crunk on in the New Year

December 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, DC, H Street

Faith and Raychel — that’s the Crunkcakes girls to you — are first and foremost, a riot to hang out with. I tagged along with them during the November H Street Bakes at H Street Country Club and it was fun just to watch them talk, joke, and bicker like a twentysomething pair of BFFs. [...]

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To Do List – New Year’s Eve Edition

December 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Barracks Row, Eastern Market, H Street

Newsflash! New Year’s Eve is this weekend. That, coupled with what is arguably one of the slowest weeks in Washington (second only to the August mass exodus, perhaps?) makes this week’s To Do list all about the last night of the year. So, do you love it? Hate it? Is it just another (Saturday) night? [...]

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Hill’s Eye View: From the Twittersphere

December 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, H Street

Image courtesy of Julia Christian You probably opted to stay indoors yesterday to avoid the dreary December rain. But, hopefully you made it outside to see some impressive rainbows and sunsets during the afternoon hours. CHAMPS director, Julia Christian, certainly did not miss out on the opportunity.  She tweeted a picture looking down H Street just [...]

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