Known for both her easygoing demeanor and her easy-to-prep Mediterranean recipes, Giada De Laurentiis is best known as the Food Network’s “Everyday Italian” host. But in...

Not-So-Angry Birds: Little plush chickens are so ubiquitous at Easter time that they blend right into the scenery. This year, take a good hard look at one. That’s easy, tha...

Think cooking hunks of meat is as retro as June Cleaver or Carol Brady? Think again. “Roasts are very relevant today,” says Neil Fletcher Wilson, a Hyattsville, Md., perso...

This year, the whole family is going to New York to spend Easter with my in-laws, who are wonderfully sweet people, whom I adore. The one problem is that they go to a very tra...

Omaha, Neb., may better known for insurance companies than for indie bands. But visiting the Gateway to the West was a dream come true for Swedish sister act First Aid Kit (Jo...

Six words — actually, one word used six times — have set off a battle that could keep the people who most need to see “Bully” from seeing it. The documentary, out Frid...

If seasonal allergies aren’t getting to you yet, I bet the seasonal tourists riding the Metro are. And Claritin can’t do anything about the hordes blocking entrance gates ...

Capitol Hill: $529,000 Condo:  625 3rd St. NE, #5 A flood of sunlight from the large windows highlights the contemporary design of this 1,320-square-foot, two-level condo. Tw...

Susanna Salk is not a designer. She tells readers that in the introduction to her new design book, “Be Your Own Decorator” (Rizzoli, $45). Without formal training, Salk ha...

In a light drizzle on a November morning, Heather and Rick Garcia stood outside their Old Town Alexandria house and greeted Tom Silva, a general contractor who stars on PBS’...

The season of Snow White begins Friday with "Mirror Mirror" and continues with “Snow White and the Huntsman” in June. Julia Roberts plays the evil queen in "Mirror" and jo...

The ending of “Boy,” the latest film from New Zealand director Taika Waititi, is a little bit ancient tradition and a little bit King of Pop. As the final credits roll, ca...

Until recently, most chefs reached for a bottle of wine when they wanted to give recipes a booze lift. But with beer sommeliers (and more than 1,600 craft breweries nationwide...

Snow White has been “fairest of them all” since her Brothers Grimm days, and with two new big-screen adaptations of the classic fairy tale due out this year, that title is...

When New York/Los Angeles-based installation artist Doug Aitken first saw the Hirshhorn museum in person, he thought its concrete exterior looked like a giant movie screen. "I...