Hit any D.C. dog park, click on Cuteoverload.com or stream the corny-but-kind-of-good romance “Marley & Me” and you’ll witness touching evidence of humanity’s conn...

As Frankenstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast on Monday, NBC announced its own monstrous creation — the Frankensitcom! “Up All Night,” the single-camera comedy about a c...

It’s a typical Thursday night in Shirlington, a growing neighborhood in South Arlington. The sound of live jazz fills the air outside Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., ...

Unless you’re Donald Trump, you’re probably not negotiating real-estate deals on a daily basis. Most people buy or sell a home only a handful of times in their lives, and ...

Capitol Hill: $1,695 1BR: 1310 K St. SE, Apt. 201 This airy one-bedroom is full of big windows. The kitchen — with new appliances, a granite-topped island, and a washer-drye...

Kitchens can be a source of anxiety for renters. Unless you’re one of the lucky few renting an apartment with a gleaming, new kitchen, you might have to deal with cramped st...

I’m having a hard time deciding on a Halloween costume. My choices: Morticia Addams (in a short skirt), a sexy librarian or Sarah Palin. Which would be the best? What shoes ...

To call Marisa Lynch “resourceful” is an understatement. Upon losing her magazine job on the verge of her 30th birthday, the recreational seamstress busied herself with a ...

Take Note Old school meets high-tech with Wonder Thread’s new collection of iPad sleeves (Wonderthreads.com) modeled after the black-and-white composition books that ran ram...

It’s Halloween night and you’re stranded without a costume. The horror! Rather than staying home and dishing out Kit Kats in shame or — worse — going as a default sexy...

No one likes Monday mornings. And Metro riders may like them even less, based on my years of carefully calibrated grumpiness measurements. So the sheer number of smiles I enco...

I would not want to be a leading actor with Oscar dreams this year. Dwight Henry (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) and Jake Gyllenhaal (“End of Watch”) turned in perform...

How does a nouveau riche Scottish immigrant in Colonial Alexandria tell the world he’s arrived? By building a giant stone house when everyone else is still using wood or bri...

In one version of the backstory, Major Lazer is a Jamaican warrior who survived a zombie attack to gain lasers for hands. In reality, Major Lazer is a collaboration between su...

If you think you’ve cracked the code of “The Conference of the Birds” the minute you figure out that the birds represent people, you’ve got a ways to go. In his 12th-c...