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Caroline Blanch, 29, works for the Bethesda-based Boston Consulting Group. Jason Israel, 35, is a policy adviser for the Defense Department. They live in Woodley Park. Wedding date: Dec. 30, 2012 Location: Dunbar House, ...

The early arc of "House of Cards" shows Francis (Kevin Spacey) taking out his enemies like so many unfortunate ducks in a barrel. You can't picture this guy giving a damn about lost ducks wandering into his back yard, a ...

Instead of seeing our problems in strictly quantitative or qualitative terms, we need to sort our challenges according to their most appropriate scale ... to address each dilemma as creatively and productively as possibl...

Rachel Cohn, the author of several bestselling YA novels, dropped by her old high school in Bethesda on Thursday afternoon to talk with students. A native of Silver Spring, Md., who now lives in Los Angeles, Cohn graduat...

There's no new contest this week, because four weeks from now -- on March 3 (Feb. 28 online), when the results would have run -- the Empress will devote this entire space (and more!) to a celebration of the Style Invitat...

People who love both fiction and music might waffle Hamlet-like about whether to enjoy a book or some tunes in their free time. But there's a way to combine both!

Every once in a while, Kyle Yost would run through a mental list of women he might want to date. Teresa Neven's name always flashed before him, but he would quickly dismiss it. They'd gone down that road before, and it h...

This weekend I was part of an experiment conducted at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. Marketing Director Leigh Chandler invited a group of...

Elegantly joyful and perfectly crafted, Wolfgang's episodic serenade served as a brilliant showcase for the elite group of orchestral musicians assembled.

'Smash' was supposed to be the show that saved NBC -- but people laughed at it instead. How did it all go so wrong?...

The guys of are getting "Naked" on Thursday's episode of "Glee." And Jacob Artist, who plays Jake Puckerman on the FOx series, is the first...

Hollywood: Where "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" can make $232 million worldwide, receive five Academy Awards nominations and have a ready-made sequel (Steig Larsson's...

Since taking over his full musical directorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has done as much as any single person could to...

Beyonce Knowles is getting ready to perform at halftime of Super Bowl XLVII. Better yet, she's in "Countdown" mode. Beyonce released a video to her...

In the final and most emotional audition of the night, Matheus Fernandes discussed his struggle with bullying due to his height. He performed "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke and his voice and his story touched the ...

NEW YORK -- All five nominees for album of the year at this year's Grammys will perform at the awards show next month. The Recording...

A Lumineers gig comes with heaps of "HEY!" and "HO!" and "OH!" and "WHOA-OH-OH!" and it doesn't take long for everything to start feeling very "meh." The ascendant Denver troupe performed to a capacity crowd at DAR Const...

A gallery with a reputation for sour art deals is in the headlines again, this time accused of selling a fake modernist work allegedly painted...

NEW YORK -- It's a few minutes after a performance of his debut play and Hamish Linklater looks like he's got indigestion. The actor-turned playwright...

Cross Terence Stamp off George Lucas' Christmas card list. Stamp -- who has 78 credits to his name, including iconic roles in "Superman" and "The...

WASHINGTON -- The Kennedy Center is expanding onto the Potomac -- literally. The $100 million expansion plan, the Kennedy Center's first structural expansion since its...

Falling down the Etsy rabbit hole is one of my internet-ish weaknesses, and upon one of these bottomless falls I came across this Dead Writers Perfume, which is made with "black tea, vetiver, clove, musk, vanilla, heliot...