As glass boxes fill the skyline, Douglas Jemal is saving what’s left of the city’s character.
(Gordon Beall)
Washington’s rules for decorating: classic, comfortable, eminently correct.
As summer wanes, beauty lingers — and even grows — in these artful spaces.
With only herself to please, a designer employs pale pinks and shimmery details to turn a 19th-century clapboard house into her home.
- Perspective What are the most common attributes for foreign students studying in the U.S.?
- Perspective
- Perspective What does it take to make it into the 1 percent?
- Perspective D.C.’s bookish babies
- Passed down through generations, Our Lady of Lourdes is on call in the delivery room
- A stack of vintage magazines took her back to another world
- An angry letter from architect Frank Lloyd Wright, an uncle’s solution to a problem
- In creating an opera shirt for her mother, she gave a gift that hit the right note
Around the globe, people want to know how the rich stack up against one another.
Todd Hauptli’s hobby is making elaborate multicourse meals for high-end restaurateurs.
Hirshhorn head Melissa Chiu proved critics wrong and made the museum hot again.
1 star | At the Greenbrier, one bright spot is breakfast.
Niermann Weeks makes elegant pieces that grace penthouses and mansions.
Previously in the Magazine
The writer had never planned to captain her own boat. Then her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
The stats are great. The record is mediocre. His third season may determine his NFL future.
Roger Federer can’t play forever. Once he’s done, can men's tennis still be beautiful and fun?
The dates are still blind. But now, a political profiler, a comedian, a radio producer and a sex writer will help make the matches, talk to the daters and deconstruct what happened.
West Virginia needs jobs and an end to the opioid crisis. Legalizing pot might help with both.
The national GOP is in chaos. Maryland’s governor offers something very different.
In 2002, the FDA approved the much-heralded permanent contraceptive device. Why are so many women speaking out against it?
The monument had stood without controversy in tiny Demopolis, Ala. — half black, half white — since 1910.
At 50, Columbia, Md., has succeeded in ways urban revitalization hasn’t.
Donated items from all over reflect our racial history and bloodied path to democracy.
Oprah Winfrey’s museum donation was huge. Her hopes for the museum are even larger.
The civil rights legend recalls what it took to win the legislative battle for the museum.
Millions of stories help shape collective memory and point us to the future.
The filmmaker sees an opportunity to confront the legacy of the nation’s original sin.
Museum artifacts go through many steps to reach a Smithsonian display case.
Four sets of architects executed the vision for housing the past and the future.
Activists talk across generations about economic power, policing and voting in 2016.
(Courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture)
