In “Playing For Keeps,” out Friday, Gerard Butler plays a former soccer player trying to win back his ex, because this movie takes place in a universe where someone would ...

Counter winter chills as you savor a seasonal favorite: hot chocolate. Bars and restaurants across the District are putting their own tasty twists on the winter drink. Here, w...

The characters in Annie Baker’s play “The Aliens” take a lot of time to think before they speak. This makes Studio Theatre’s production a bad choice for the sick or th...

Chanukah on the Ellipse, featuring the National Menorah lighting, is the Jewish corollary to the National Christmas Tree Lighting. And it’s got one element its conifer-centr...

There’s a lot to envy about James Bond, what with the gadgets and the suits and being allowed to drink on the job. Take a look at column B, though, where you’ve got a whol...

If you’re a comedian who was raised Jewish, there’s likely no stranger place to perform than a synagogue. It’s something Nick Kroll, right, mentioned repeatedly during h...

The world is made up of warm-bodied and cold-bodied exercisers. The former are the ones you see running in T-shirts and short shorts in 20-degree weather. And then there are t...

Why can’t I stop comparing myself to everybody else? I was always self-confident in high school and even college. But now that I am approaching my 30s and engaged, it’s li...

Peek into a Core Values class at Equinox and you won’t see anyone sweating profusely. There’s no jumping. No weights. But it’s one of the most intense offerings at the g...

Patti Smith’s music has been with me since my teens, when I also dutifully consumed Camus and Rimbaud in the classic moody-teen-girl search for meaning. Until Saturday, I’...

Gregg Orton and Meina Banh’s recent move had a few casualties: among them, a man-cave. The couple went from a two-bedroom basement apartment in Mount Pleasant to a one-bedro...

Cap City nesters have loved colorful interiors since George Washington decked out Mount Vernon in Yankee Doodle bright blues and otherworldly greens. Jonathan Adler, the midce...

Dash to local stores and hip websites to score cool loot for all the characters on your list. Below are highlights from our gift guide, which includes over 40 presents for you...

Bicyclists measure their performance in revolutions per minute. So does that make them revolutionary? It sure seems like it at BicycleSPACE, the Mount Vernon Square shop that�...

I have the world’s best job, but December kills me. First, there are all the Oscar-bait releases, which are often an embarrassment of riches. And then there are all the earl...