Don’t be embarrassed if you’re a lot older than most of the audience of “The Intergalactic Nemesis.” Even though it’s labeled “for young audiences,” the show was...

The Preakness Stakes, now in its 138th year, is a horse race run by thoroughbreds and held at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. If horses don’t fire your starting pistol...

Hundreds of people dressed as robots gathered in the rain in Dupont Circle last week for a bike ride. They were not afraid of rust. They fearlessly took over the streets for t...

Telling a story in verse is difficult, especially when the story’s as funny, rambling and conceptually complex as Voltaire’s “Candide,” the French satirical novel publ...

Restaurant regulars and industry insiders know that menus don’t always tell the whole story. Additional offerings lurk beyond every bill of fare; you just need to know how t...

Actors don’t have to like their characters, but they do have to understand them. When it came to his role as a self-centered adulterer in “The Last Five Years,” now at S...

American artist Jeff Koons has exhibited giant, shiny, stainless-steel balloon dogs, a 40-foot-tall puppy made of flowering plants and self-portraits of himself in X-rated pos...

Most smartphone owners have felt it — GPS Shame. It strikes when you fire up an app to locate a building 200 feet away. How did anyone get anywhere before Google Maps? “Ti...

Nikki Enfield wants to hear what you have to say. So much so that she’s inviting you to a bar where the two of you can talk. Along with anyone else who shows up. Enfield is ...

In a Mike Daisey performance, the monologuist sits at a table with a script in front of him and talks about his life for two hours. So when people find out the man behind “T...

International Pillow Fight Day is a chance to revert to childhood, scare tourists and take out your aggression on strangers without getting arrested. This year’s event, orga...

In “The Host,” out Friday, a teen love quadrilateral breaks out when two guys love two women, except one of the women is really an alien parasite living in the first woman...

Picture this: The former first lady’s dressmaker and best friend pens a tell-all book about her years in the White House. She reveals intimate details about a revered presid...

St. Patrick’s Day is one of the few days a year when everyone (not just sports fans and reality-show stars) is encouraged to get raging drunk. You, elegant reader, don’t h...

If you care at all about the flavor profile of your drink, or about chatting with your bartender, you may want to avoid going to a bar on St. Patrick’s Day. However, if you ...