Thank you to our fabulous photographer, Maria, for playing paparazza on Friday night at the Hillys! Aesthetic Answers did a great job of decorating the North Hall, Marvelous Market catered with a delicious array of food, and the open bar was flowing with specialty drinks mixed by bartenders from Wisdom, The Argonaut, Tunnicliff’s, and Matchbox. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Businesses'
The Hillys in Photos
November 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Tags: Businesses·Events·hillys·Photos
Voting for 2010 Hilly Awards Ends Tonight at 11:59 PM!
November 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Vote for your favorite Hill businesses by tonight at 11:59 pm! The second annual Hilly Awards voting ends tonight, if you haven’t already voted for your favorite neighborhood businesses today. And then join CHAMPS, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce on November 19th in the North Hall of Eastern Market to eat, drink, make merry [...]
Buy Local!
November 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill
CHAMPS — the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce — just launched a Buy Local campaign, and the benefits are pretty incredible. Just $50 gets you a BUY LOCAL membership card, which provides you with great discounts at all sorts of local businesses. Highlights include 20% off at The Argonaut, 10% off at Granville Moore’s, 15% [...]
Tags: Businesses
New Game and Puzzle Store to Open on Penn (Yes, NEW Retail!)
October 8th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Eastern Market
What? You want more retail on the Hill? Well, local Hill resident and parent Kathleen Donahue is jumping into the fray. Kathleen is opening Labyrinth Games & Puzzles at 645 Pennsylvania Avenue, the space formerly occupied by Remix. Moving past the ancient copy of Risk you have moldering away in your closet, Labyrinth will offer [...]
Tags: Businesses
In Defense of the Gap (and other thoughts on our local retail exodus)
October 7th, 2010 · 32 Comments · Capitol Hill
This week’s earlier post on the closing of Chateau Animaux reminded me again of this post from DCist from September 11, 2007 reporting the rumor that a Gap might be coming to Barracks Row. Obviously, that never happened. The DCist post had several positions for and against which all ring pretty hollow looking at the [...]
Tags: Businesses·development
Frager’s Turns Back Time in Store Window
September 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill South
If you have ever walked past Frager’s Hardware, you’ve surely noticed the store’s busy window display. This week, in honor of the store’s 90th anniversary, Jessica Moore, a consultant in the paint department, has taken the once busy space and created a dueling “then and now” window display to commemorate the store’s rich history. “The [...]
Tags: Businesses·Fragers
You have 8 days left…
September 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
…to nominate your favorite Hill business for the 2nd Annual HILLY AWARDS. From now until October 1, you are invited to nominate your favorite Capitol Hill businesses for inclusion on the official ballot. This year, two categories have been added to the slate. The categories are as follows: Restaurant of the Year Service Provider of [...]
Tags: Businesses·restaurants·The Hillys
Update: Capitol Hill Animal Clinic
September 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Capitol Hill
You may remember a mention on this blog about Capitol Hill Veterinary Clinic closing to make way for a future restaurant venture on 8th Street, SE. I am happy to report that Dr. Murphy’s new venture is called Capitol Hill Animal Clinic, and is now located at 1240 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE — close to the [...]
Tags: Businesses·Pets·Veterinary
Why I Want to Work at Frager’s
March 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill South
When my husband and I first moved to our home on G Street our neighbor asked us what we had planned for the house, which needed a good amount of work. We rattled off a laundry list of things we planned to address —for the record only a few items have actually been checked off [...]
Tags: Businesses·Frager's Hardware
Is Your Roof in Danger?
February 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill
From a seat inside Starbucks, we watched a man clear the roof of the National Capital Bank — with a 2×4. The children sipping hot chocolate nearby were in awe and worried about his safety. Based on the conversation on the HillEast listserv there is a great deal of concern about how our flat roofs [...]
Tags: Businesses·homes·safety
