Search

Miller's Washington DC restaurant, the Red Sage, is a $3.5 million venture. Miller studied under Alice Waters and has had several successes in his southwestern restaurants. The Red Sage is western, and Miller uses fresh ingredients and native spices and herbs., SPORTING A BEARD AND BLUE JEANS, MARK Miller stands at the corner of 14th and F streets NW, his wispy red hair dancing in the blustering March air. Miller vaguely [...]

Marwood is one of most elegant and valuable properties in the exclusive Potomac region. Gore is trying to save the estate by subdividing the land owned by the family, which has squandered its fortune., LOUISE GORE WAS A TEENAGER WHEN SHE REALIZED THAT SHE WASN'T LIKE YOU OR ME. She was rich, the daughter of a Depression-era real estate tycoon, but her station in [...]

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MARRIOTT BILL MARRIOTT SWALLOWED HARD AND TRIED TO IGNORE THE pounding in his chest. [unkeyable] It was October 2, 1989, a cold, rainy Monday, and [...]

THE OTHER SHOE HAS FINALLY DROPPED in Montgomery County just ask County Executive Sid Kramer: the footprints are all over his posterior. Three years ago, when a wave of slow-growth [...]

POISON PROFITS WAR'S MOST BITTER ODORS - THE smell of death and cordite - fouled the night as the marines of the 23rd Regiment, Second Division moved up to the [...]

The Mercedes sedan edged up Montello Avenue and came to a stop in front of a row of seedy two-story apartment houses. Two pale-faced strangers climbed out and began to [...]

BACK IN THE EARLY 1980S, WHEN he controlled a $1.4 billion financial empire, Tom Billman wanted more than anything to see his face on a wall, specifically a wall at [...]

How Maryland's governor uses his fat-cat friends to grease the wheels of government THEN WILLIAM DONald Schaefer replaced wimpy Harry Hughes as the governor of Maryland, not even his harshest [...]

FOUL PLAY CLEANING UP MARYLAND'S SCANDAL-PLAGUED ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT IS JUST ANOTHER DIRTY JOB FOR LEW PERKINS LEW PERKINS LEANED OVER IN HIS CHAIR, PLANTED HIS BIG FOREARMS on the table [...]

THE BOTTOM LINE ON BARRY What it really cost to bust the mayor MARION BARRY'S ARREST AT THE Vista Hotel in January was, as the cops say, a cheap bust. [...]

TONY CICORIA Cozy dealings with developers put him center stage - and brought the law out of the wings ANTHONY CICORIA ONCE SEEMED TO have it made in Prince George's [...]

THIS FALL, POLITICAL EARTHQUAKES rumbled through the District of Columbia and Maryland, and rescue workers are still searching for the bodies. Perhaps Robert Johnson, the president of Black Entertainment Television, [...]

I knew we were saved as soon as Kmart Corp. reintroduced the BlueLight Special. The budget retailer brought back the promotional gimmick last April, and the memories immediately came flooding [...]

BOY CRAZY The Washington Times called it `the Great Summer Sex Scandal.' But when all was said and done, the paper simply went EARLY IN THE MORNING OF FEBRUARY 28, [...]

Fred Joseph A coffee break with the lawyer who got Nurse Jane Bolding off the hook THE TELEPHONE IN FRED JOSEPH'S law office rang at 11:00 A.M. on March 20, [...]

Lanny Davis MOST POLITICIANS ARE VEXED BY VERBS, but Lanny Davis is haunted by adjectives. They trail after him like a string of tin cans tied to a dog's tail. [...]

Steuart Petroleum, Washington's largest independent petroleum company has taken action to insure its position in the changing petroleum market. It has made acquisitions both in the heating oil market and in service stations. And it has changed its product mix to match consumer demand, and added new products.

THE MARYLAND MERCURY Double Jeopardy. Troubles at Melnicove Kaufman Weiner & Smouse, the highpowered Baltimore law firm, have caused 60 of its 80 lawyers to jump ship. Chief among them [...]