Adored by critics and revered by his fans, Bruce Springsteen adds another highlight to his career when he receives a Kennedy Center Honor Sunday night.
On the day he turns 89 Dave Brubeck will be a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, just another award that confirms his status as the great living jazz legend.
Legendary opera singer Grace Bumbry broke down racial barriers and set standards in a genre, where during the early years of her career, she was one of very few minorities.
Amid charges of marital infidelity, golfer Tiger Woods, known as one of the world's most private and image-conscious sports stars, finds his personal life exposed and scrutinized like never before.
Whether you're just starting or just finishing your holiday shopping, we've got you covered. Here are our picks for some of the best gift ideas in town.
Lots of retail giants stock piles of identical pendants and glitzy cocktail rings. But an undercurrent of lesser-known designers and local boutiques are focusing on the elusive One Great Piece. Here, a sampling of these splurge-worthy baubles.
While making gift lists, consider toys that will get kids off the couch and on their way toward the 60 minutes of daily physical play recommended for all children and adolescents.
Scene In: 14th Street Corridor From Thomas Circle to T Street, Midcity's fashionistas bring their unique style to 14th Street.
The Healing Fields Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
A President's Retreat During his presidency, Abraham Lincoln often sought refuge from official Washington in a 36-room retreat on the grounds of Soldier's Home, an armed forced retirement community. A seven-year, $17 million restoration of the historic space known as President Lincoln's Cottage is now complete.
Fashion Week INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.
Newseum An interactive tour of the news history museum that opens April 11 in its new, $450 million building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
MULTIMEDIA: The New Museum Opens in New York - The three levels of gallery space in the New Museum feature bare white walls and flat lighting. The artwork is arranged on cement floors, which have been allowed to crack. Art Critic Blake Gopnik reviews the art.
Five years after the Taliban fled Kabul under the cover of night, signs of fragile but real progress abound. Simple pleasures once prohibited -- song and dance, the flutter of kites -- have resumed. And for the first time, women and girls once repressed under Taliban rule are able to take better control of their lives and their futures.
Alberto Korda was born Alberto Diaz Gutierrez in Havana in 1928, the same year as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Korda captured the celebrated photograph of Che during his work as personal photographer to Fidel Castro. In the book 'Cuba by Korda,' available Sept. 15, 2006, rare photos of Fidel Castro and Guevara, as well as the stories behind the photographs.