For the past 20 years, “Goosebumps” series author R.L. Stine has been writing the stuff of nightmares: Tiny hamsters turn evil! A teacher develops an appetite for children...

If ever there was an oddball food to attach your name to, it’s sauerkraut. Yet it makes sense to Spike Mendelsohn — the former “Top Chef”-testant behind We, the Pizza ...

On Sept. 12, 1973, Cher appeared on the “Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” wearing not much more than a beaded bikini, a skirt and a long headdress of white feathers. She lo...

Molly Ringwald played a beautiful, brooding, pretty-in-pink teen in iconic coming-of-age flicks in the ’80s. Now 44, she’s still beautiful, still brooding — but hold the...

Union Market, the new food bazaar on Neal Place NE (between 5th and 6th streets), opens Saturday with all the makings of an artisanal food paradise in the middle of one of D.C...

Old-fashioned, handmade sodas have been coming back in a big way the past few years at local restaurants. I’ve sipped and savored some great ones this summer, including the ...

At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, squawks, barks and howls have finally replaced beeping trucks and blaring jackhammers. After five years of planning and renovation, the zo...

In 30 years of photographing protests in Washington, Lucian Perkins had never encountered a demonstration that lasted as long as the Occupy movement, whose participants camped...

There’s a certain reaction I usually get when I talk about the restaurant and takeout place in Falls Church called Meat in a Box (312 S. Washington St., 703-533-9070). There...

Don’t tell the frat boys downing Miller High Life or PBR in Adams Morgan, but there’s a flood of better-tasting brews out there, stuff worthy of the serious sipping and sn...

Even though fruits are obvious choices as dessert ingredients, they can work in savory foods, too. That’s why I was excited to try the six-course peach-tasting dinner menu (...

On Aug. 15, which would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday, tributes will undoubtedly pour in from Food Network personalities and “Top Chef”-testants. But when Child...

While researching genetics and DNA for his new book, “The Violinist’s Thumb” — a look at how DNA influences our quirks and tendencies — author Sam Kean decided to ma...

Logan Cox is driving south down Porter Street NW, making small talk with passengers about a wedding he recently attended, when he interrupts himself to point out a small media...

Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific roughly 75 years ago while trying to circumnavigate the globe with co-pilot Frederick J. Noonan. The search for her remains continu...