When the red light is on, the bar is open. Photo courtesy Capo Italian Deli. But if you want to go, you’ll have to know someone who can get you in—at least at the beginning. (Speakeasy-like gimmicks ...

A DC nonprofit says "American Flag Blue" is "more appropriate to a resort or theme park" than the National Mall.

Attorneys Katrina and Web met, as they say, “in true DC style—as summer associates at a law firm.” They started out as office mates—she somewhat resentful that Web was assigned the better desk next to ...

As I waited for the wood-paneled elevators to lift me up to the recently opened Ned’s Club near the White House, two photographs of women commanded my attention: Jane Fonda sprawls on an armchair in ...

One muggy and overcast morning in June, my friend Mike and I woke up at dawn, in a hotel room just south of the Mixing Bowl in Springfield, and walked due east along Franconia Road until we hit Van ...

News & Politics The Story of the Really Weird Night Richard Nixon Hung Out With Hippies at the Lincoln Memorial It was one of the unlikeliest spectacles in Washington history: the President of the ...

Near midnight last night, a man in a green shirt and khaki pants carried a keg to Georgetown Cupcake. He stopped right in front of the closed sweets shop—famous for always having a line—then threw the ...

West Virginia to New Jersey. That vast acreage overlapped much of the six-state, 64,000-square-mile watershed of the Chesapeake and its biggest tributaries, the Susquehanna, Potomac, and James rivers.

Intelsat sells its building to the 601W Companies, a real-estate firm, then relocates to McLean two years later. The 601W ...

When 29-year-old Jamie Fortin was diagnosed with the hormonal disorder polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—recently renamed polycystic metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)—five years ago, she wasn’t shocked ...

In the darkened sitting room of her 18-room Georgetown house, Sally Quinn—journalist, famed Washington hostess, and widow of longtime Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee—recently read a poem aloud. It ...

In July, more than a dozen dogs gathered in Leesburg under circumstances that would have been unimaginable when they were born. Their paws touched grass. They didn’t have to fight for food—instead, ...