Get your tickets quick, because this eclectic, experimental and unusual band's early show has sold out. The Grammy-winning Brooklyn group began as a duo in 1981 and wound up a mainstay of the alternative/college rock scene. In 2002, They Might Be Giants started cranking out children's albums. The...

Although this farce was written half a century ago (it was a Broadway play and then a 1956 film starring Judy Holliday), it resonates in the current times. It's the story of Laura Partridge (played by Nancy Robinette), a minor stockholder who uncovers corruption within a corporation's board of...

On this day, as the nation sits down for the annual feast that launches the holiday season, it could be the way you say something to a friend or relative -- and not your mother-in-law's gravy -- that makes or breaks the day.

Think your home is less polluted than a city street? Think again.

As the holiday looms on the calendar, I sometimes think it ought to be called Angstgiving. Assembling the throng is tricky enough.

These were among sales recorded recently in the District and supplied to The Washington Post by Spatial Systems Associates Inc. and the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue. To find sale and assessment records for homes in the District and elsewhere in the Washington area, visit...

Having a sale? The Sales Talk column is looking for super deals on home furnishings, accessories and services at stores across the area to share with our readers. Let us know the details at least two weeks in advance. Write us at localliving@washpost.com , or call 202-334-4409.

The holiday season brings with it an overabundance of advice on how to avoid gaining weight in the face of all those festive meals, cocktail parties and plates of cookies brought in by co-workers. Depending on whose advice you're inclined to heed, you can cut back on carbs, mind the glycemic inde...

Here is an edited excerpt from The Post's On Parenting blog. Read the latest posts at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/parenting .

The D.C. Animal Shelter, 1201 New York Ave. NE, and the Washington Humane Society Shelter, 7319 Georgia Ave. NW, offer animals for adoption. The D.C. shelter has viewing and adoption hours from noon to 8 p.m. weekdays except Wednesdays and noon to 5 p.m. weekends. Hours at the society's shelter are...

These were among cases handled by the Washington Humane Society. The society operates its shelter at 7319 Georgia Ave. NW and the District's at 1201 New York Ave. NE. For information or assistance, 24 hours a day, call 202-723-5730 or visit http://www.washhumane.org .

Before oversize clocks and reality television and before he penned lyrics with Public Enemy, Flavor Flav was homeless. He slept in a dumpster and would escape just before the garbage truck came to haul the trash.

Youth2Youth, for youths with special needs ages 13 to 21, meets on the first Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. in the Advocates for Justice and Education office, 2041 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Suite 400. The next meeting is Dec. 7.

After the success of the neighborhood trails along U Street, in Mount Pleasant and throughout downtown, among other areas, signs for the Columbia Heights Heritage Trail are up, and neighbors and tourists are learning more about the community's history.

TOY INVENTIONS TALK AND TOUR, museum staff members lead tours of the center dedicated to Jerome Lemelson, holder of more than 600 patents, including 70 for inflatable and jumping toys, toys with propellers, toys that run on tracks, dolls and more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily through Dec. 31, except Dec....

This is the meeting schedule for the D.C. Council and its committees for the coming week. All meetings are in the Council Chamber of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, unless otherwise noted.

These were among incidents reported by D.C. police. For information, call your police district station.

There are Thanksgivings that evoke general thanks, and there are Thanksgivings that evoke specific thanks. For the Ganey family of College Park, this year it will most certainly be the latter.

Before she went rogue, Sarah Palin got lost. She was stalking "majestic dall sheep with their thick curled horns" in a national park, she writes in her new book, "Going Rogue." "I was only about eight years old, and for a couple of anxious hours of climbing hillsides and calling my name, no one...

I have an eight-year-old kousa dogwood, chosen for its purported disease resistance, that lost its leaves from the inside out over most of the summer. The leaves just yellowed and dropped, and by late August the tree had leaves only on its outermost tips.

Dear Dr. Fox: My 10-year-old male cat had to be euthanized.

Deborah Tannen's advice on how to create a living room that encourages people to talk to one another:

Gathering today with your nearest, dearest and others? Holidays, much like relationships, can be "made, maintained and broken" through conversations, says Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, who has written many books on analyzing conversational styles.

"We'd like this to be the informal area where we can eat dinner without worrying about spilling on nice dining room rugs."

After being mesmerized by the slow and pretty leaf drop of autumn, we wake up around Thanksgiving day to the reality of the naked garden.

Do the planet and your garden a favor by recycling fallen leaves. Leaves can be added to the compost pile or spread as mulch over garden beds. They should be chopped up first with a lawn mower to speed decay.

Mold grows like crazy in all my bathroom toilets, in four of the seven faucets and in one of the two shower heads.

Picture this: You and a dozen other people are gathered on couches somewhere today, watching a football game on the big screen and consuming a ridiculously fattening selection of snacks that precede an enormous and even more fattening Thanksgiving meal.

Near the end of her struggle to find the right high school for a son who does not always share her tastes, Tracey Henley was overjoyed to discover that some of her son's best friends had endorsed her choice and that his resistance had vanished. "So now we don't have to forge his signature on the...

The opening of a bike lane down one street in the District generated a lot of interest among readers [ Dr. Gridlock, Nov. 15 ]. I think one reason is that we don't get many chances to talk about innovation in our transportation system. Another is that changes in travel patterns tend to divide...

These food establishments were closed because of health code violations. The list, compiled from health department reports, reflects actions taken by the departments.