I once had someone tell me to my face that women can’t accurately review action movies because “they just don’t understand.” (During a job interview. You’ll note tha...

It’s been easy to spot MARC riders lately: They’re the ones bouncing around wearing goofy smiles. Ever since last week’s news that the commuter trains will start running...

I am a Netflix dropout. I dropped out because I would order a movie, and it would sit, unwatched, for millennia. Now Netflix is dangling a frozen banana in front of me: 15 new...

This TV season, we lost “30 Rock” to early retirement, but there are still plenty of sharp, silly and surprising sitcoms on the broadcast airwaves. As the season comes to ...

Daft Punk helped lead the charge for the EDM (electronic dance music) genre. Being one with the machines is kind of the point of being an EDM DJ/producer. It’s a quest that ...

How can I stop being so judgmental about some friends of mine who I think are very spoiled? They are almost 27 years old, but they still live like college students, getting a ...

Manolo, I love your shoe recommendations, but, unfortunately, I’m just a poor working girl who struggles each month to get by. Can you recommend a pair of sandals for me tha...

I knew Rosebud was the sled, I knew Ilsa would get on the plane, and I knew Norman Bates liked to wear his mom’s clothes. I even knew Bruce Willis was dead the whole time. W...

It won’t be hard to find a bicycle in Washington on Friday, when more than 13,000 folks are expected to participate in Bike to Work Day. But probably only one of those bikes...

I’ve spent seven years and 184 episodes waiting for the moment “How I Met Your Mother” has been building to. Every year, there are episodes that end with a montage of he...

We’d always talked about my mother-in-law moving to the area when she retires. I would welcome that. But now my wife says she wants her to live with us for the rest of her l...

There’s a little old lady partial to cardigans who has earned a place in rock history. Her stuff goes for hundreds of dollars on eBay. She retired two weeks ago, and Los Lob...

For the past month, my husband has been in Silicon Valley working on a  business project. Next week, I’ll be joining him for a weeklong vacation in San Francisco and Napa V...

When I teach film, I often use clips from Baz Luhrmann movies as examples of formal techniques — montage, say, or framing. His use of the structure of filmmaking to communic...

Metro isn’t known for its consistency. Riders can never be sure whether an escalator will be working, or how long they’ll have to wait for a train, or what the temperature...