No, it wasn't really the Salahis . But as expected/hoped/dreaded , Saturday Night Live did kick off tonight's episode with a riff on NoVa's own fauxialite White House crashers - this time crashing a presidential press conference. The set-up: President Obama ( Fred Armisen , as usual) giving a...

"Look at this deal from our match against Harlow's team," Unlucky Louie said to me.

DEAR AMY: What is the appropriate course of action to take when someone who tormented you daily in high school and over a couple of years of college asks to be your friend on Facebook?

Each year a group of distinguished artists joins a prestigious club, even more select than Oscar winners, at the Kennedy Center Honors. Now in its 32nd year, the Honors reviews the careers of legends from the performing arts -- dance, music, opera, theater, film and television -- as the recipient...

Few of the stories that have been written and produced about Michaele and Tareq Salahi have failed to mention Michaele's platinum blond locks and her reed-thin figure. She is, indeed, a striking woman who maintains a shade of blond that typically isn't seen on anyone over the age of 2. She also has...

HOLLYWOOD -- On a recent crystal-blue afternoon, U2 leader Bono lifted his shoulders, dropped his chin and scowled like Popeye as he began a spot-on impression of Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan. He slapped a palm to his forehead and began rubbing hard, like a man trying to sandpaper off an eyebrow....

At the beginning of the year, Washington's Joy of Motion Dance Center was experiencing some of the financial pain that was crippling many of its fellow arts groups. It had seen a 25 percent enrollment decrease in its adult classes. Foundation grants had dropped. As a result, the group had been fo...

Here are the organizations that have received stimulus funds from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities:

During his concert at Giants Stadium on Oct. 3, just a couple of weeks after he turned 60, Bruce Springsteen did something no one remembers him doing in many, many years.

Robert De Niro is contemplating two cups. One steams, already full of hot coffee. The other holds two tea bags, over which De Niro carefully begins to pour hot water. "The chamomile is calming, and the coffee is to wake me up," he explains, leaning out of a deep leather armchair to perform what l...

Dave Brubeck turns 89 years old this Sunday, and he gets this birthday-party favor to hang around his neck, a trifle of a thing, really, a rainbow-striped ribbon award to join all the other degrees and honors trailing the great living jazz legend.

There are moments when it hits you: Mel Brooks means more to American comedy now than ever. Whenever a character in a movie audibly passes gas, for instance. Or when you're on a long flight to Los Angeles, watching "Young Frankenstein" on a laptop in Seat 8C, chuckling at the monster tap-dancing ...

You can tell an opera singer by her voice. Grace Bumbry's echoes down the phone lines from her home in Salzburg with a rich, honeyed lilt. Born in St. Louis, raised singing in her church choir, now living in Austria after decades in Switzerland, Bumbry has a warm speaking voice colored as much by...

Dear Carolyn: My co-worker is in her mid-30s, has some health issues, isn't married, doesn't make much (we have the same kind of position, so I know) and is pregnant. She doesn't even care for her pets properly. But she wanted this baby SO MUCH -- her emphasis -- and wants everybody's good opinio...