News & Politics How to Raise a Rock Star, According to Dave Grohl’s Mom Virginia Grohl managed to raise the Foo Fighters founder and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl—a guy who also happens to be kind and stable and who doesn’t hate her. In a new book, she’s asking other music-industry moms how they did the same thing. Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Ginny Grohl, ParentingMay 9, 2017
News & Politics The Billionaire and the Flood: How a Tragedy Transformed the Greenbrier Resort and the Blue-Collar Town that Depended on It One year ago this June, a historic flood lashed West Virginia, killing 23 people and crumpling homes. It also exposed the complicated relationship between a resort that draws Washington’s rich and powerful and the blue-collar town that houses the hotel’s staff. What happened afterward surprised everyone. Best Features of 2017, flooding, Jim Justice, The GreenbrierMay 7, 2017
News & Politics How a Half-Deaf Outfielder, a One-Legged Pitcher, and a Team of Misfits Made a Run for the World Series Washington hasn’t won a World Series in 93 years. But in the waning days of World War II, an unlikely team came surprisingly close. Baseball, Washington Senators, World Series, World War IIApril 30, 2017
News & Politics Virginia Tech, Ten Years Later After Seung Hui Cho gunned down 32 students and professors in Blacksburg on April 16, 2007, some of their families joined forces in hopes of preventing a similar tragedy in the future. It was an admirable goal. But a decade has passed, and relatives have realized that grief—and politics—can separate people as easily as it can bind them. Virginia TechApril 13, 2017
Real Estate What It’s Like to be a Real-Estate Agent to DC’s Super Rich Georgetown, Kalorama, Massachusetts Avenue Heights, Real Estate AgentsApril 2, 2017
News & Politics The Strange, Spectacular Con of Bobby Charles Thompson Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson. A look inside the hunt to catch one of the country’s biggest con men. Best Features of 2017, LongreadsMarch 19, 2017
News & Politics 50 Great Places to Work in Washington, DC Companies and nonprofits that offer great pay and benefits, flexible schedules, meaningful work, and happy colleagues—and they’re hiring. Great Places to Work, technology, UrbanStems, VoxMarch 7, 2017
News & Politics Confessions of a Washington Ghostwriter Behind many a politician’s book, there’s an invisible writer who gets to see what the author is really like. In an adaptation from her new memoir, Barbara Feinman Todd dishes on her career as the go-to ghost for some of Washington’s biggest bylines. Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Ghostwriter, Hillary ClintonFebruary 5, 2017
News & Politics Larry Hogan Is Having a Grand Old Time as Maryland’s Governor He navigated an urban crisis, beat cancer, and became America’s second-most popular governor—as a Republican in a blue state. And Democrats have no idea how to respond. Larry Hogan, Maryland, PoliticsJanuary 29, 2017
News & Politics The Battle of Raging Bitch A look inside Flying Dog, the company that made a bestseller out of a beer with a naughty name—and launched a First Amendment fight to call its brews whatever the hell it wants. Brewery, Flying Dog Brewery, FrederickJanuary 22, 2017
