I’ve spent seven years and 184 episodes waiting for the moment “How I Met Your Mother” has been building to. Every year, there are episodes that end with a montage of he...

It’s got froth on top, it comes out of a tap, and it’s served in a beer stein. But that pale yellow liquid isn’t ale — it’s kombucha, a fermented tea believed to imp...

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...

We’d always talked about my mother-in-law moving to the area when she retires. I would welcome that. But now my wife says she wants her to live with us for the rest of her l...

There’s a little old lady partial to cardigans who has earned a place in rock history. Her stuff goes for hundreds of dollars on eBay. She retired two weeks ago, and Los Lob...

1. Rangers (24-13): They haven’t had a losing streak of more than two games all year. 2. Cardinals (23-13): Their starters have a 2.25 ERA, almost a run better than anyone e...

No Nationals pitcher had a rockier start to the 2013 season than Dan Haren. In Haren’s first three games, the right-hander surrendered 12 earned runs, including six in a 15-...

The sustainability movement has come of age, but most workplaces still operate like it’s 1999. Maddeningly inefficient office spaces abound: over-conditioned iceboxes buzzin...

Name: Maxwell Yakush, 32 Position: Architectural Fabricator (Maxstarindustrial.tumblr.com) Salary: $60,000 a year What He Does: Yakush uses specialized tools to craft bespoke ...

Angela Baker had a pretty great job in the Obama administration a few years back. Still, she was itching to break into the international policy field. So, while working full t...

For the past month, my husband has been in Silicon Valley working on a  business project. Next week, I’ll be joining him for a weeklong vacation in San Francisco and Napa V...

Clean, Chic Not content to fill downtown lofts and suburban bungalows with squared-off sofas and massive mirrors, Crate & Barrel is going into the housekeeping business, t...

When I teach film, I often use clips from Baz Luhrmann movies as examples of formal techniques — montage, say, or framing. His use of the structure of filmmaking to communic...

Q: Every apartment I’ve ever lived in was supposed to be cleaned before I moved in, but it was always a mess when I got there. Is my landlord obligated to clean? Do I have a...

Like a lot of Washingtonians, Lucy and Ethel anxiously await the chance to mingle with friends at their daily 7 p.m. happy hour. The only difference is that their happy hour t...