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Never has there been a more versatile piece of furniture than the pouf. It's a table, a seat and a place to rest your feet all at once, while remaining so easy to move around that it can almost earn the title of throw pi...

It's young, it's hip, and it's not coming to a street corner near you. Restaurant mega-chain TGI Fridays rolled a 16-foot-long food truck into the District this week. Staffed by 20-somethings and stocked with free sample...

I am on the phone with Nancy Wagner of Salina, Kansas. Nancy is the grandma of a young lady I have just read about in an ad from the Salina Journal that her parents posted on Facebook. The ad congratulates their daughter...

Last week I visited the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and found myself weeping in front of a painting by Paul Klee. Thirty years have elapsed since I was a summer intern in this museum, housed in a private palazz...

"Dateline NBC" (NBC at 8 p.m.) investigates the nearly two-decade-long mystery behind the death of Gary Triano, a successful entrepreneur in Arizona who was killed by a car bomb in 1996. The Harry Potter franchise gets t...

Ashok Bajaj is the founder of Knightsbridge Restaurant Group and owns many of Washington's top restaurants, including the Bombay Club, the Oval Room, Rasika, 701 and Ardeo + Bardeo. He moved to Washington in 1988.

Reader: I am a software developer who participates in various industry events and online chats. As a woman, I'm assumed not to know much, and thus many men give me know-it-all lectures a la Cliff Clavin from "Cheers," pl...

I can do it, but I hate it," says Scott Stossel, sitting on a sofa in the living room of his comfortable Cleveland Park home with his wife, Susanna, and their two children, Maren and Nathaniel, playing nearby. "I sort of...

Nine years ago, I received a call from a well-respected historian who informed me that my father had played a leading role in one of history's greatest treasure hunts. He told me my father had been involved in the recove...

Even 10 years after it was released, "The Notebook" still leaves audiences yearning for the kind of heart-wrenching, everlasting love Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling brought to life on the big screen. Which is why, back ...

Seeing Jody Miller's stunning photos, you might think she's a veteran storm chaser. "I have only been shooting storms for the last two seasons," the Southern California resident told The Huffington Post. She's been passi...

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America's first public food forest is rising from seven overgrown acres in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood this summer. The edible plants range from shade tolerant species at ground level to large nut-producing trees ...

"Making a commitment to be part of this was kind of terrifying." That's what one woman in "SHINE," a short video from The Goddess Project, said of her decision to join 10 strangers for a photoshoot where participants wor...

A Minnesota high school student has filed a lawsuit against his school district for ruining his reputation after his two-word sarcastic tweet. In January, Reid Sagehorn, 18, was asked through Twitter if he had "made out"...

Dave Isay, founder and president of the non-profit oral history project StoryCorps, long envisioned an initiative focused on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, a group often excluded from the historica...

Whether you're a school nerd (like me) or an aspiring designer eager to learn more about design history, these ten Quick History posts, all related to American design and designers, are sure to teach you something you di...

The top legislative body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Thursday to redefine Christian marriage in the church constitution as the union of "two people" instead of only "a man…

I can't believe I'm actually going to say this. I many never work in this town again. But here goes. As a professional songwriter for over 25 years, I was drawn to a piece that was put out on the wire by the Associated P...

Most of the live music I see these days is a very predictable experience. Usually a four- or five- piece band with a few guitars, a bass, drums, some microphones and lyrics about the sorrow of love lost. Seeing Yann Tier...

The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. -- Mark Twain, 1898 On June 18, 2014 the American Film Institute offered audiences the opportunity to become fami...

Just over a month ago, Sarah Inoue Virk, a Music Business major at Berklee College of Music, hosted an event called "Balancing Musicianship and Business." This is where I met the incredibly talented and inspiring Kiran G...