Sunday: Literary Hill BookFest 2014

Literary Hill BookFest
Sunday, May 4, 2014
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Eastern Market, North Hall
7th Street & North Carolina Avenue SE
Capitol Hill, Washington DC 20003

If you’re in DC and like to read, stop by Eastern Market this Sunday and meet local authors and poets: Brett L. Abrams, Jonathan Bardzik, Louis Bayard, Elizabeth Becker, Simeon Booker, Mike Canning, Jack Colhoun, Pete Daniel, Christopher Datta, John DeFerrari, Tom Dunkel, Alison Fortier, Frederic J. Frommer, Stephen H. Grant, Mary Z. Gray, Patricia Gray, Lovey Marie Guillory, Lucinda Janke, Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson, Anu Keene, Katy Kelly, Tim Krepp, Jonathan Lewis, Myrina McCullough, Diana McLellan, John Muller, Jean Nordhaus, Garrett Peck, Quintin Peterson, Frank Pietrucha, Robert Pohl, Gina Sangster, Canden Schwantes, Paris Singer, Benjamin Soskis, Janine K. Spendlove, Cathy Travis, Bill Walsh, Gene Weingarten, and John R. Wennersten.

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Signs & Portents

Here’s the word on the street about the government shutdown. Yesterday the vendors of Havana Banana Breads chalked an open letter to Members of Congress. The message may have reached them; the sign was at Eastern Market on Capitol Hill. The bakery’s owner is a service-disabled veteran.

More street signs here.

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Boxcar Tavern Opens Friday

Eastern Market will have a new neighbor starting Friday. Boxcar Tavern opens on December 30, 2011 at 224 7th Street SE, formerly the site of the Petit Gourmet food shop. Check out the handsome tavern website and the write-up and photos of the interior at Thrillist .

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Top Chef Tour at Eastern Market

Cable TV’s Top Chef tour is parked at Capitol Hill’s Eastern Market this weekend, pitting Carla Hall, Ariane Duarte, and Spike Mendelsohn against each other. The real action is in the bus (above) where six prep chefs and three runners do the real work. On Saturday, two hundred people watched this spectacle, half of them standing in the hot sun. Amazing.

Literary Hill Bookfest 2011

Literary Hill BookFest
Sunday, May 15, 2011
11:00AM to 3:00PM
Eastern Market, North Hall
7th Street & North Carolina Avenue SE
Capitol Hill, Washington DC 20003

If you’re in DC and like to read, stop by Eastern Market this Sunday and meet local authors Louis Bayard, Selene Benitone, Simon Conway, Kim Fellner, Lucinda Fleeson, Maggie Hall, Sharon M. Hannon, Margaret Hollister, Barbara Joe, Katy Kelly, Marguerite Kelly, Kevin R. Kosar, Nancy Lifset, Peter Manseau, Celeste McCall, Diana McLellan, Spike Mendelsohn, Jean Nordhaus, Mark N. Ozer, Erica Perl, Robert Pohl, Richard E. Rubenstein, Ariel Sabar, David Ian Shaman, Richard Treanor, Cathy Travis, Gene Weingarten, John R. Wennersten, Peggy Walton and Bonny Wolf.

More:

“The Literary Hill Goes Live!” Karen Lyon, Hill Rag

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Eastern Market Music Sunday — Free!

The Fall concert series at Capitol Hill’s Eastern Market neighborhood has a fine double bill this Sunday: Karen Collins & the Backroads Band (10:30 AM) and Janine Wilson & Max Evans (1:00 PM).  The concert site is at the corner of 7th Street and North Carolina Avenue SE, in front of Port City Java, across from the historic market building.

The Sunday series, funded in part by the Capitol Hill Community Foundation,  runs another three weeks. The schedule is here.

 

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Questo fine settimana: Acqua al Due DC

The Capitol Hill outpost of Florence’s Acqua al Due restaurant opens this weekend, though you wouldn’t know it from the eatery’s website[Update: the website is now live]. We learned about it from UrbanDaddy.com, which has a tasty slide show of the A al 2 interior. 

Restoration of nearby Eastern Market and related street improvements may have delayed construction work on the restaurant, which began back in 2008. It’s been a while, and the neighbors are restless. And hungry.

Acqua al 2 
212 Seventh Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
202-525-4375
(near the Eastern Market Metro station)
 

 

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Eastern Market Building to Re-Open June 26

UPDATE: Free music at Eastern Market June 27-28.

Capitol Hill’s Eastern Market building will re-open Friday, June 26th, refurbished and re-interpreted, after it was gutted by fire on April 30, 2007. While the 1873 building is of questionable historical or aesthetic merit, it will certainly go down in history for its rehab pricetag: $22 million in public funds.

Great pains were taken to use historically accurate paint colors and streetlamp forms in the adaptive restoration, but astonishing anachronisms (lead-free paint, electric lights, air conditioning) abound. There is no word when historically-correct horse manure and flies will be installed in surrounding streets and alleys.