“Mommy, is this a dream?” An 8-year-old girl steps out of the late-May sun beating down on a Georgetown parking lot and right into her own little version of heaven — a food truck. Except this truck i...
The feuding has commenced again, complete with shootin’, spittin’ and cussin’ (not to mention corncob pipes and moonshine). But the hills where the latest Hatfields vs. McCoys skirmish has flared up ...
Alex Ebert, leader of the Los Angeles-based collective Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, recently told an interviewer that he had no interest in the Zeros being the equivalent of “the ’60s ride a...
We’ve been hiking a narrow canyon for nearly half an hour, hemmed in by huge sunset-colored cliffs, and the suspense is killing me. Where’s Petra? “It’s becoming clear why it was lost for so long,” q...
It was a mild winter day, and the office of Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, Bahrain’s ambassador to the United States, seemed warm and welcoming. Nonoo, who four years ago created a splash as the world’s f...
Jon Goldwater was riding his New York commuter train, just two weeks into his new job as co-chief executive of Archie Comics, when a fellow passenger tossed off a remark that blindsided him. The fres...
If you were one of the viewers who checked out comedy “ How to Be a Gentleman” (CBS) before the network pulled it off the air after three episodes, CBS starts burning off the remaining ones Saturday....
Thursday night’s Howard Theatre concert — one of only six stops on a mini-tour of the United States — was a rare stateside performance by Babasonicos. The Argentine rock band, which co-headlined Puer...
When Rick Nielsen talks about his home town in northern Illinois, you might expect him to riff on one of his rock band’s hits. Maybe “I want you to want Rockford.” Or “Surrender, surrender . . . to R...
“Coppelia” has long been regarded as one of the world’s most beloved story ballets, staged across the globe since its premiere more than a century ago. But in the United States in recent decades, its...
Gently, gently, the librarian opens the first of the five books displayed on the large wooden table, and age seems to rise up from the pages like a wavy distortion above heated pavement. It’s an Engl...
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In a post-apocalyptic world, after the grid’s gone dead, people sit around a campfire and tell stories for entertainment. But their tales are not classics of Greek mythology or of literature or relig...
Jay Frisby has been playing Tom O’Brien on the national tour of “South Pacific” since September. After Kerouacing it up all over the country for nine months along with a 50-member cast and crew, he h...
May 28, 1969. Xuan Loc, South Vietnam. Two companies of the Army’s 199th Light Infantry Brigade are slogging along a trail leading out of the forest where they have just had a bloody encounter with t...
CBS can call itself the country’s most-watched network for the ninth time in the past 10 years. The network won the 2011-12 television season, which ended Wednesday, by averaging nearly 12 million vi...
He had received a phone call just that morning from a supporter furious about yet another newspaper story suggesting that he was boring. It was not the best of days for Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a ma...
In red satin jacket, polished fingernails and preening self-regard, Tom Carman flutters convincingly onto the Artisphere stage as Crow, a renegade singer come to dethrone an aging rock-and-roll legen...
Donald Driver took home the coveted mirror ball trophy Tuesday night on “Dancing With the Stars.” The victory was a bit of a surprise, with runner-up Katherine Jenkins and third-place finisher Willia...
The weather has turned warm, a long weekend awaits and I can’t help but fantasize about exotic summer travel. Those fantasies do not include airports. The logistics and cost of air travel can be the ...
Word has it the sitcom genre is primed for a big comeback this fall, but if the first episode of TBS’s Thursday night sitcom “Men at Work” is any indication of what lies ahead, then they can keep it....
Keep your eyes peeled for the Mothership on Wednesday. That’s when Parliament’s legendary 1975 funk album “Mothership Connection” is cleared for landing on the Library of Congress’s National Recordin...
Marty Lodge has something really cool to say, except he’s not allowed to say it. “I’ve been sworn to secrecy,” he said. Okay, fine, he will say one thing: “I’m going to be on ‘Mad Men’ next week.” On...
How much is a drop of presidential blood worth? An online auction site is hoping to find out by selling a vial that it claims was used to draw President Ronald Reagan’s blood as he recovered from the...
One afternoon, as Heather Schoell was having porcupine-quill-like needles inserted into her feet, she casually mentioned to her acupuncturist that Cashew, her floppy-eared beagle, was suffering from ...
Empty calories don’t seem such a misguided nutritional choice when they’re served to you by a force like Erin Weaver, the vitamin-enriched musical star of Signature Theatre’s “Xanadu,” a jaunty, airh...
More than a year after it was first announced, Bristol Palin’s latest foray into reality TV will finally become, well, a reality on June 19. Except that the premise has changed again slightly, bringi...
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