News & Politics Seb Audy Is a World Bank Manager Turned Corporate Executive—and One of the World’s Most Daring Polar Explorers The Bethesda athlete is on a mission to crush mountaineering records and expose the effects of climate change. But on the 30th day of his last expedition—snowkiting north of the Arctic Circle—the quest took a sudden, tragic turn. arctic, Climate Change, climber, ClimbingMarch 23, 2022
Home & Style | Shopping Inside the Extra-Pricey, Extra-Fabulous Birthday Bashes That Guilt-Ridden DC-Area Parents Are Throwing for Their Kids Lost time (and vaccines and variant lulls) is becoming the ultimate excuse to party—with bespoke logos, “kidchella” themes, and budgets in the thousands for balloons alone. Birthday Party, Children's birthday party, Features, kids birthdayMarch 16, 2022
News & Politics Javanka in Exile All but banished from Washington after January 6, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been hiding out in a little no-frills town in South Florida. Its Trumpy mayor couldn’t be more thrilled, but the former First Kids have had a frostier welcome from another set of locals. Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, January 6, Jared KushnerFebruary 2, 2022
News & Politics The January Sixers Have Their Own Unit at the DC Jail. Here’s What Life Is Like Inside. They’ve got their own internal justice system for problem-solving—and a Sunday comedy ritual. DC Jail, Jacob Chansley, January 6, January sixerJanuary 5, 2022
News & Politics Washingtonian’s Best Longreads of 2021 10 great feature stories we published this year Britney Spears, covid, Donald Trump, EastonDecember 30, 2021
News & Politics Kal Penn Kind of Promised to Have an Obama Holiday Party at a DC Strip Bar And other funny stories from Penn’s new memoir, "You Can’t Be Serious." Barack Obama, Book release, Kal Penn, You Can’t Be SeriousDecember 30, 2021
News & Politics More and More Women Are Paying Alimony to Failure-to-Launch Ex-Husbands. And They’re Really, Really Not Happy About It. “It’s not just as simple as saying, ‘Because men pay it, women should pay it too.’ ” Alimony, DivorceDecember 3, 2021
News & Politics Inside the Making of the Britney Spears Musical After a year of seismic developments in the pop star’s real-life soap opera, a Broadway show set to her music—with a rise-up tale about a posse of princesses who become feminists—is set to debut. And it premieres in Washington. Aisha Jackson, Briga Heelan, Britney Spears, BroadwayNovember 19, 2021
Food | News & Politics Vinoda Basnayake Is a Beltway Whisperer for Middle Eastern Royalty—and the Operator of DC’s Sceniest Nightlife Spots He’s our town’s hookup to all kinds of big-name celebs, but also a super-wired foreign lobbyist. The two lives aren’t as different as you might think. Carnegie Institution for Science, Casta’s Rum Bar, celebrities, Ciel Social ClubNovember 17, 2021
News & Politics The CIA Is Trying to Recruit Gen Z—and Doesn’t Care If They’re All Over Social Media You’d think a generation of folks raised on making look-at-me posts on social media could never go work at the Agency. You’d be wrong. CIA, Facebook, Features, Gen ZNovember 9, 2021
