We are so used to seeing photos — journalistic and personal — of people showing emotions that the portraits of expressionless individuals in contemporary artist Taryn Sim...

Tradition is king at Thanksgiving, but there’s something to be said for new flavors at the table, too. Before we get too close to the holiday, it’s a good time to envision...

FotoWeekDC’s citywide celebration of all things photographic, running Friday through Nov. 18, celebrates its fifth birthday this year — which is practically forever in pho...

When I eat out on ever-changing, of-the-moment 14th St. NW, I expect to have a good meal. What I don’t expect is to have a completely new food experience. The Drafting Table...

Antique teapots and jars of loose leaf tea decorate the Park Hyatt Washington’s Tea Cellar, a tranquil (and not actually subterranean) setting just to the right of the hotel...

The display cases at Praline Bakery & Bistro are packed with sugary delights: eclairs, apple tarts, hazelnut layer cakes, macarons. And, around this time of year, eight-le...

There are two key candidates in this race: The first, a familiar entity with roots in Chicago. The other, a flashier, fancier, richer but virtually untested challenger. These ...

Look closely at the paintings in the National Gallery of Art’s new Roy Lichtenstein retrospective … walk right up to the canvases and scrutinize them … and you’ll see...

Between the installations “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” at the Hirshhorn and “Fragments” at the Sackler (as well as the documentary “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” ove...

Now that we’ve witnessed one round of presidential debates and are gearing up for a healthy exchange of semifactual ideas between the vice presidential hopefuls tonight, man...

Now that the presidential debates have begun, everybody’s got an opinion about how this thing is going to turn out. Some have loud, kind of paranoid ones. Others have more r...

It is a verifiable fact that, when presented with any part of a fish that still contains skin and is not cleverly concealed inside sushi, nine out of 10 individuals will be ki...

Lorenzo Cherubini is kind of a big deal in Italy. Better known by the stage name Jovanotti, he dominates record sales charts and draws tens of thousands to his live shows. He ...

Lynn Povich was a “good girl,” a smart, well-educated woman from D.C. who landed a job as a fact-checker at Newsweek in the 1960s — back when Newsweek never hired women ...

Sometimes, trying to stay on top of food news — which always seems to mean filling up on fancy dishes — leaves me feeling extra-concerned about getting enough exercise. So...