It’s a GR8 day to be a Caps fan: left wing Alex Ovechkin announced today that he signed a one-year contract to return to the ice. “I’m back!” Ovechkin said in a press release. “Thank you to everyone ...

Spotted lanternflies are about to swarm the DC area. Here’s everything you need to know about what to expect and how to lantern-proof your yard. Spotted lanternflies are an invasive species notorious ...

If you haven’t invested in noise-cancelling headphones (or a second home outside of DC), now might be the time to do so. DC’s July Fourth fireworks, which are being run this year by Freedom 250 (the ...

And why on earth is the Trump administration so bent on closing the Kennedy Center in the first place? The situation has become fairly labyrinthine, but if you care about the fate of the Kennedy ...

In the early 1960s, long before bluegrass was streamed into the living rooms of genteel NPR listeners or championed by retro-craving hipsters, the place to hear the best hillbilly music around was the ...

Washington’s Metro, which turns 50 this year, is something of a miracle. In post–World War II America, highways were the name of the transportation game, as decades of car-centric sprawl made new ...

The 20-year-old Northern Virginia native is winning national and world titles with his daring quad jumps. How much farther can he push his sport's limits?

It was a simpler time. The billionaire mogul had not yet built an electric truck liable to fall apart while in motion; released a chatbot known to praise Adolf Hitler; or seemingly succumbed to the ...

Two years ago, Jeff Bezos brought in controversial media executive Will Lewis to lift the Washington Post out of a post-Trump slump. His calamitous tenure ended in failure—and has left the storied ...

Abigail Spanberger and the Virginia Governor Race: Can “Boring” Politics Win? In an era of bombast and spectacle, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor doesn’t go viral, doesn’t do stunts, and ...

morning in October 2011. He walked the creaky floors in the 19th-century nave and found a seat in the paint-chipped pews. Mourners crowded the interior as the choir began singing. William Niskanen’s ...

For a restaurant industry in pandemic recovery, a foodie TikTok and Instagram gold rush is the worst best thing ever. It was the worst winter ever for Bruce Allen. The former fine-art photographer was ...