As I headed into the Union Station Metro stop the other day, the announcement screen was scrolling through a warning about the recent uptick in phone thefts. You’d think tha...

In my dreams — or, specifically, in a dream I had the other night — everyone could get anywhere by hopping through a wormhole. No SmarTrip card was required, although for ...

I’m freakishly good at guessing plot twists. (Just ask my husband how annoying it is to watch TV with me.) But when I walked into a meeting about problems with the 16th Stre...

“It’s just a few blocks to the Metro.” Despite wearing countless layers of tights and fleece-lined tops, I’ve had to tell myself that every day this week to summon the...

The major issue of the 2012 elections was the economy. How can we control our spending? What cuts can we make without bleeding government programs dry? Will the richest Americ...

On Monday at 12:30 p.m., at the Dupont South escalators, you can witness a phenomenon that occurs only twice a year. And, no, I don’t mean a group of tourists who all know t...

Let’s face it. You won’t be going to the gym every day in 2013. But you will be going somewhere. And maybe you can improve how you do it. That’s why I asked readers to s...

You probably think you’ve experienced an epically bad commute. You won’t feel that way after reading Andy Goodwin’s story. Two Mondays ago — of course it was a Monday ...

When the D.C. Taxicab Commission said it wanted the public to start weighing in this week on possible color schemes for Washington’s fleet, I’m not sure it was expecting t...

It wasn’t so long ago that some Washingtonians’ preferred method for traveling around town was horse-drawn carriage. And by not so long ago, I mean last week. I was walkin...

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�...

Architect and city planner Jeff Speck and his wife and two kids could live anywhere. So why is their house in Washington, D.C.? Their friends. And those folks are likely here ...

On Tuesday, people were faced with questions about the priorities of government, the divisiveness in our society and what it all means for the future. That’s because I stati...

With Metro completely shut down and Capital Bikeshare closed this past Monday, taxis were pretty much the only option for folks without cars who needed to get somewhere. But p...

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...