The emergency legislation empowers Mayor Bowser to establish cleaning and maintenance standards at hotels.
It was canine chaos at Saturday’s Community Doggie Dip at the Washington Hilton, a fundraiser for the Washington Humane Society which hosted some 50 dogs who had full run of the pool area and its heated, saline treated pool, which had just closed for the season.
It’s not often that two hippos chase down a presidential candidate. But today two did and survived to tell the story. Voting rights activists protested outside the Washington Hilton this morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of John McCain and express their displeasure at his recent vote against cloture on voting rights legislation that would have moved legislation forward to grant the District a voting seat in the House. Among the activists were two…
D.C.’s 2007 Taste of the Nation to support “Share Our Strength” was held last night at the Washington Hilton Hotel to raise funds to combat childhood hunger in our region. The event featured over 70 restaurants, chefs, and distributors from the D.C. metro area who all came out to support the cause and glad hand with their fans. An estimate of a whopping 1200 people showed up for good food, drinks, company, and a noble…
As you have hopefully heard (or at least read in Wikipedia), it’s not Adam’s Morgan — Adam doesn’t own the Morgan. The neighborhood was given its name during D.C.’s school desegregation in the 1950s, when the all-white John Quincy Adams School and the all-black Thomas P. Morgan School were both integrated. Adams School still exists on 19th Street just north of the Washington Hilton, but Morgan School, which was located at the corner of California…
As Gothamist and Google reminded us, yesterday was Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday. The master American architect certainly shaped the way our nation viewed building and our relation with space. It’s too bad that countless other builders hacked up his vision by creating cookie-cutter suburban split-levels and other such throw-away exurban homesteads. One thing this DCist misses about the Midwest is the close proximity to Wright’s architecture. In Washington, we aren’t as fortunate. Corinthian columns and…
The self-described revolutionary anarchists who marched through Adams Morgan last week toward an Inauguration party at the Washington Hilton — leaving a bit of damage in their wake — are defending their actions in an open letter posted on DC Indymedia. They’re a bit peeved over the criticism directed their way since the sort-of riot, sort-of rout. As D.C. residents and organizers whose politics are rooted in an opposition to both capitalism, the state and…
If you were wondering what deep pocketed inauguration visitors will be doing in D.C. tonight, odds are they will be attending one of three candlelight dinners taking place at Union Station, the National Building Museum and the Washington Hilton (AKA the “Hinckley Hilton”). Those who donated more than $100,000 to the inauguration will be invited to one of the events. According to the Post, the dinners “are intimate — in inaugural terms — with about…
We’re still a week away from Inauguration Day, and we’re already being warned about how road closures and security perimeters could disrupt the normal goings on of the city. Some might ask: “Is worth going to anyway?” (A bigger question is, will President Bush — as Jimmy Carter is seen doing in the National Archives photo above — walk the parade route in a post 9/11 world?) Haven’t been able to score tickets to an…
If anyone knows if there is a Mimi Slocum-type character living in Georgetown, we want to interview her. As you can see from this colorful scene from “Igby Goes Down,” Susan Sarandon, playing the pill-popping, neurotic Georgetown socialite Mimi Slocum is sitting on her maid. Though most of “Igby Goes Down” takes place in New York, the scenes involving sheltered affluence in Georgetown is always entertaining. (Do good Georgetown children kill their mothers, as…
