Latest News
-
Homestyle
Oddly, spring is the season when we open our homes to fresh air and embark on epic cleaning sprees to have our houses ready for......
-
True Colors
Whatever you do, don’t ask David Bromstad to name his favorite color. “Impossible!” he exclaims. “That’s such an unfair question!” Who said life was fair,...
-
Fall Fixes
Imagine you live in Miami. It’s hot in the summer. It can be pretty hot in the winter, too. And as far as seasonal variations...
-
Kitchen Is King
You’ve decided that your kitchen or bathroom is due for a facelift. Where to start? Ernesto Santalla, of Studio Santalla, recommends starting with a design...
-
Seasonal Head Start
As you say goodbye to your summer garden, now is the time to prepare your plot for full bloom in the spring. Frank Asher, a...
-
Everything in its Place
As you’re looking around your home wondering how you ended up with so much stuff, you may be tempted to blame the clutter for keeping...
-
Twenty-Four Hours Without DADT
For more than 24 hours, the United States has been constrained from enforcing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although CNN is reporting that...
-
Mourning at Howard [Updated]
Adding to the troubling series of recent suicides by young LGBT or questioning people, seemingly as a result of bullying, another young person has taken...
-
Ibex Puppetry at Clarice Smith Center
In Panther and Crane, Ibex Puppetry’s Heather Henson carries forward the legacy of her father Jim Henson through her own vision, with a story of...
-
Angella Foster at the Kennedy Center
Angella Foster’s commissioned piece “Speechless” uses movement, text, live music and video projections to tell the stories of families who care for special needs children...
-
Generation Last
Carl Paladino really is the unwanted gift that keeps on giving, a politician whose every apology leads to another apology in a recursive loop that...
-
Pumped to Race
Organizers of the 24th annual High Heel Race, set for Tuesday, Oct. 26, are asking for three things: One, they need volunteers. Two, they want...
-
Acquiescent Accomplices
In one of the blunter responses to the recent spate of student suicides, comedian Sarah Silverman said by video, ''Dear America: When you tell gay...
-
No Place Safe
Ben Carver is not talking to the press. But in a nearly 1,700-word Oct. 5 blog post on BenCarver.com, the D.C. resident describes how he...
-
Sentinels Score
Basketball players from across the country – more than 200 – will descend on Washington this weekend for Capital City Classic II, D.C.'s second biennial...
-
Stein Offers Awards
There's certainly cause to celebrate, says Gertrude Stein Democratic Club President Jeffrey Richardson of the group's upcoming annual awards reception on Oct. 28. ''We're really...
-
Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: What are you seeding by intent? What are you seeding by accident? What you sow right now is the ''crop'' that will see...
-
Velvet Goldmine
Manny Lehman. Aubrey. Reg. Cryogenic freeze. ''There are a lot of things that people think of when they think of Nation, but nobody thinks of...
-
Fairy Tale Romance
Sometimes what you want is the fairy tale, a storybook romance that begins with ''once upon a time'' and ends with -- if not slain...
-
Unorthodox Material
Miryam Kabakov's new anthology features first-person narratives from queer Orthodox Jewish women In his writings, the influential 12th century Jewish philosopher Maimonides speaks of a...
