An outstretched arm and a couple of fingers can still hail a cab. But apps keep promising that smartphones can do it better ? for a tiny fee. With Hailo, yet another taxi-ha...

Nine to five, Joel Daly works at a local communications firm. But in his spare time, he heads the D.C. chapter of Creative Mornings, a New York-based discussion series that pu...

You know the summer cookout routine: Buy some patties and hot dogs, fire up the grill, and toss back a couple of cold ones. It’s a nice enough tradition, but maybe you shoul...

When I got up this morning, the weatherman was shouting about our big heat wave,? which made me think I want to move to Juneau, Alaska, or maybe buy myself some new sandals. ...

Optical Illusions Seeing things through rose-colored glasses just got a whole lot easier. The Rowley Eyewear collection (from ready-to-wear darling Cynthia Rowley) includes hi...

When Zara Frankel, 28, and her roommate were looking for an apartment in Northwest D.C., they knew rents would be steep. So the two apartment-hunters decided to try something ...

“Fruitvale Station,” out Friday, is an extraordinary film for a number of reasons, and many of them are small. There are big things right with the fact-based film ? part...

You know how “Fruitvale Station” ends because of how it begins. Shaky cellphone footage from a Bay Area train station shows a group of black men sitting on the ground, sur...

Ten thousand years in the future, space aliens land in an uninhabited Washington and discover a city dominated by the remnants of neoclassical architecture. With all of D.C.'s...

Passersby who saw clouds of smoke billowing in front of Point Chaud (1736 14th St. NW) last weekend may have worried the creperie was about to ignite. They were in for a sweet...

Underneath a segment of I-695 at the southern border of Capitol Hill sits a little patch of cement and gravel that regularly plays host to a liberal fever dream of multiethnic...

Philadelphia singer-songwriter Kurt Vile is fully aware of how people perceive him based on his long, flowing hair and his rambling, lackadaisical music. “Sometimes when I g...

Pink, fluffy and a hot mess?if you don’t watch out. No, not Nicki Minaj. We’re talking about cotton candy: the featherweight spun sugar that dissolves at the touch of you...

It’s no spoiler to say that Ryan Reynolds’ character gets killed in “R.I.P.D.,” out Friday. After all, how else can he join a police unit made up of the dearly departe...

When you’re single, everyone has advice. Some say to ask friends to set you up. Others tell you to look for your soul mate online. Stand-up comedian Ophira Eisenberg, author...