Book Review: ‘War’ by Bob Woodward

October 21, 2024

By Simon Henderson If newspapers are the first draft of history, the books of Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward can claim to be the second draft. The quotes from […]

September 2024 ArtsWatch

September 11, 2024

DC Design Week to Kick Off Underground  This year’s DC Design Week, themed “Stories Within,” will kick off on Sept. 27 with a party at Dupont Underground. Events (in daily […]

Real Estate: WaPo CEO Buys Home in Georgetown

June 17, 2024

Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis and his wife Rebecca have bought a home in Georgetown. According to Axios, the couple spent over $7 million on a six-bedroom, eight-bathroom […]

‘Wrongfully Detained’ Americans ‘Rotting in Foreign Prisons’ Recognized

May 4, 2023

Actions to free “Wrongfully Detained” Americans “Rotting in Foreign Prisons” were honored and discussed Tuesday and Wednesday, May 2 and 3, by Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Washington […]

Weekly Arts Round Up, May 13, 2021

May 13, 2021

This weekend: a “makers market” at Dumbarton House and live jazz at Glover Park Grill. Starting May 21, you can visit Xiao Qi Ji, the National Zoo’s “Little Miracle,” in panda (so to speak).

P&P Live! Masuma Ahuja-Girlhood: Teens Around the World In Their Own Voices—with Neema Roshania Patel

March 12, 2021

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 – 7 p.m. “How would the story of girlhood be told if girls were the ones to write it?”. This simple premise drives an intimate collection […]

D.C. Braces for Joint Session of Congress, Protests

January 4, 2021

All eyes are on Tuesday’s Senate runoff in Georgia and Wednesday’s certification of electoral college votes in a joint session of Congress — expected to be both contested and protested.

Does Bob Woodward Ever Get Angry?

October 13, 2020

Temperament and stamina have been Woodward’s journalistic and authorial superpowers since the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting he and Carl Bernstein did starting in 1972.

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The Story I Am’

June 11, 2020

In “The Story I Am: Mad About the Writing Life,” acclaimed author and essayist Roger Rosenblatt mines his personal oeuvre.

Washington Post’s Fred Ryan Honored

October 11, 2019

Georgetowner Fred Ryan, publisher of the Washington Post, was honored along with Caroline Beasley of Beasley Media Group at the Free Speech America Gala by the Media Institute at the […]