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Byline: Ellie Silverman, Fritz Hahn, Caitlin Gilbert âLove is Blindâ finally announced its cast for the upcoming D.C. season, and it already has people across the city talking, judging and [...]

Byline: Emily Heil, Fritz Hahn Unlike so many other storied cocktails, the Orange Crush's origins are undisputed. Without the fog of centuries obscuring which monocle-sporting bartender first coined the term [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn There's nothing like the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C. Every year, hundreds of thousands of red-white-and-blue-clad patriots pour into the heart of the nation's capital to [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - Before the pandemic, the National Air and Space Museum was one of the most popular museums in the world. It drew 6.2 million visitors in [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - John F. Kennedy is an outsize presence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: the bronze bust by Robert Berks in the Grand Foyer, [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn After two years of streaming author conversations, podcasts and virtual Q&A sessions with readers, the National Book Festival is back in person at the Walter E. Washington [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn There is never a wrong time to drink a beer in an airport, and that's the beauty of it. Did you arrive 2 1/2 hours early and [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - Not long after the Metrobar beer garden opened last summer in Washington D.C., co-owner Jesse Rauch says, he noticed an unexpected trend: An increasing number [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn It started with two goodwill ambassadors named Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, whose 1972 arrival in Washington included an official welcome from first lady Pat Nixon. Fifty years later, [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Last summer was a difficult one at Delaware and Maryland beaches, as a combination of stay-at-home orders, social distancing requirements and occupancy limits hammered businesses that rely [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - The National Arboretum is a place full of contradictions. It was established by Congress in 1927 as part of the U.S. Agriculture Department 'for purposes [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - The National Cherry Blossom Festival is underway, the famous cherry trees around the Tidal Basin are getting closer to their peak bloom - and the [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-Saddler and Fritz Hahn Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to expand street dining and allow public drinking in more parts of the nation's capital, offering a glimpse [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Tourists usually pack into Washington's museums in the days leading up to inauguration, cooing over the first ladies' gowns at the National Museum of American History or [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn August 26 is the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which affirmed that 'the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn The coronavirus pandemic continues to have a major impact on Washington's cultural institutions even as the region begins to reopen. The responses differ by institution: The Kennedy [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Go-go music has been percolating in Washington, D.C.'s clubs since the 1970s, but D.C.'s homegrown style of syncopated funk has experienced a whirlwind 15 months. In April [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - When Denizens Brewing opened in 2014, it received a license allowing the delivery of growlers to customers within a five-mile radius from its site in [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - If you found yourself walking the side streets of Capitol Hill on a recent tranquil Sunday afternoon, past brick rowhouses and under flowering magnolia trees, [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn The closure of area dining rooms has forced restaurateurs to get creative with their offerings: You'll find Michelin-starred restaurants offering make-at-home meal kits, chefs delivering takeout dinners, [...]

Byline: Adele Chapin;Fritz Hahn Their dining rooms and stages are closed, but many D.C. restaurants, bars and music venues are selling more than just takeout or gift cards during the [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn;Adele Chapin;Angela Haupt In a normal year, you would have already made plans to celebrate your mother on May 10: Brunch plans locked down, flowers ordered, new outfits [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Most cocktail lovers have a go-to that they look forward to sipping after a hard day: stirring an Old Fashioned before settling in on the couch with [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn If you found yourself walking the side streets of Capitol Hill on a recent tranquil Sunday afternoon, past brick rowhouses and under flowering magnolia trees, you would [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn For two decades, the National Gallery of Art's Jazz in the Garden concert series has been one of Washington's signature summer events. The free Friday night series [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Update : Jack Rose will open to the public on Friday, March 27, and not Saturday, March 28, as originally announced. This story has been updated. Back [...]

Byline: Hau Chu;Fritz Hahn 'Lunch Doodles' with Mo Willems Mo Willems is a gift for parents stuck at home with children, and not just because 'Don't Let the Pigeon Drive [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn;Angela Haupt At a time when terms like 'social distancing' and 'self quarantining' have entered common usage, the idea of getting in the car and driving to a [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Local school districts are providing meals to students while children are home during the coronavirus pandemic, but some worry that children might still go hungry. These local [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn;Adele Chapin This is an unprecedented time for restaurants and beverage producers, who've seen their business models upended in a matter of days. To survive, they're getting creative: [...]

Byline: Hau Chu;Fritz Hahn Most of Washington's popular museums and tourist attractions have closed to visitors. Nightclubs have gone silent, and theaters are dark. Restaurants are serving carry-out, if they're [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn The District announced its first confirmed case of the coronavirus that causes covid-19 on March 7. On March 11, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser declared a state of [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Man cannot live on Andy Capp's Hot Fries alone. And so, when you go to a bar's vending machine seeking a late-night snack, you're likely to find [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn;Hau Chu;Thomas Floyd;Stephanie Williams;Rudi Greenberg Washington is a hungry city, always on the lookout for the buzziest new dining room, the coolest new artist, the next star-in-the-making. No [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Some bars go to great lengths to make sure their cheese plates, tapas and bar snacks pair perfectly with the carefully stirred cocktails or the wines by [...]

Byline: Hau Chu;Fritz Hahn;Michael O'Sullivan We're in a new year and a new decade, and we're just trying to find a way through the chaos. What lies on the path [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn At some Washington theaters, audience members have been known to arrive as close to curtain time as possible. That's less typically the case at the Folger Theatre, [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn They came to hear their favorite party band play at an Irish wake. Clarendon Ballroom, the scene of countless happy hours, girls' nights out, first dates, first [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - When visiting friends and family members ask you to take them to 'a real D.C. bar,' they're thinking of the archetypal political watering hole, where [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Since the dawn of the craft beer era, the mantra has been 'Flavorful, complex beers are good. Fizzy, mass-produced yellow lagers are bad.' And yet the best-selling [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn Back at the turn of the millennium, the Washington, D.C., sound that seemed most likely to take over the world wasn't punk or go-go - it was [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn WASHINGTON - Millions of visitors descend on the National Mall every year, touring the U.S. Capitol, posing for photos in front of the memorials and picnicking on [...]

Byline: Fritz HahnIt's been a big month for 'Black Panther.' Last week, it became the first comic book-based film to earn an Academy Award nomination for best picture. On Sunday, [...]

Byline: Fritz HahnIt's late. You've had a few drinks. Your stomach is growling, and the only thing that can scratch the itch is a cheesy Crunchwrap Supreme with extra Fritos [...]

Byline: Fritz HahnWASHINGTON - The first time I voluntarily gave up alcohol for a few weeks after New Year's was in 2009, years before 'Dry January' began showing up on [...]

Byline: Fritz HahnWASHINGTON - Residents of D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood are accustomed to the roars of lions and cries of gibbons emanating from the National Zoo. And while they'll still [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn The Tombs, the storied and student-friendly rathskeller steps from the Georgetown University campus, sells Coors Light drafts and Busch Light cans for less than $3. But for [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn In many ways, 2019 feels like it has been rougher than usual to older bars. It started with the Black Cat's quarter-century-old Red Room moving into its [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn This post has been updated with additional events. Some people obsess about where to find the longest, cheapest all-you-can-drink deals on New Year's Eve. Then there are [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn When visiting friends and family members ask you to take them to 'a real D.C. bar,' they generally don't mean the Raven Grill. They're thinking of the [...]