News & Politics
Foxtrot’s Abrupt Closure May Be Illegal
Arts & Society
Washington Ballet’s Edwaard Liang to Speak at May 16 Breakfast
Arts & Society
Social Scene: Your Guide to the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner Weekend
Arts & Society
Weekend Roundup, April 25 through April 28
Food & Wine
Downtown Stunner: La Grande Boucherie
DC Chamber Honors Baseball Visionaries
December 12, 2019
•Former Mayor Anthony Williams and others discussed the economic resurgence of D.C. after years of bad publicity and investors “running away” from their sales pitches for the city.
A Celebration in Red: Washington Salutes the Nats With Epic Parade (photos)
November 4, 2019
•Young and old descended on the District on Saturday to pay homage to the newly crowned champions of Major League Baseball.
Our Nationals, Now and Forever
October 31, 2019
•Here in Washington, Wednesday’s game, we’re pretty sure, enveloped and drowned out the outside world, healed wounds and clamped down on the reality of political distraction and angry voices.
The Nats’ First World Series Win: Cherish the Moment
October 23, 2019
•We won! Last night was the moment, when the Washington Nationals learned for sure that they were a National League Champion worthy of the name — that they could indeed […]
The Salve of Baseball
October 10, 2019
•For Washington baseball fans who treat the box score as a bible, who live in a city where political bloodletting is a condition not an event, we woke to baseball in a morning made joyful.
The Shoeless Joys of Opening Day
March 28, 2019
•Sports, it always turns out, is the Band-Aid, the nurse, the cool glass of water at the end of a hot day, the reward for the unrewarding job, the passion injected into the lives that may not have enough.
Frank Robinson: A Life of Numbers and So Much More
February 9, 2019
•The lives and deaths of athletes, especially baseball players, seem to be about numbers, stats, plaques and titles and records. Baseball seems to love to remember itself and its legends […]
Georgetown Library Issues Summer Challenge
August 2, 2018
•The gauntlet has been thrown down to Georgetown’s well-read adults: to read a daunting classic like “Ulysses” or “Moby Dick” for at least 20 minutes a day.
Baseball Fever Sweeps D.C.
July 16, 2018
•Leading up to tomorrow’s All-Star Game: a lineup of events at the stadium, the convention center, bars and restaurants, even the Library of Congress.
In Games We Trust
June 28, 2018
•The World Cup, and every sport from T-ball to professional sports, is a kind of state of mind where fans lose their minds gladly, a kind of alternate reality that includes its actual fantasy counterparts.