Sonya Clark Explains How Hair Brings Us Together
Sonya Clark is a textile artist who uses flags, money, human hair, and other everyday objects to explore race and Blackness. “Tatter, Bristle, and Mend,” the first survey of Clark’s 25-year career, is...
View ArticleLook Inside My Home: A Glover Park Studio With Black Walls and Peel-and-Stick...
Imani Keal has lived in her Glover Park studio apartment for two years. The 25-year-old project manager, who’s roommates with her 10-month-old Yorkie, Salazar Slytherin II (aka Sal), originally moved...
View ArticleLook Inside This $11.5 Million Midcentury-Modern Dream House in Georgetown
Okay, we need you to know that there’s an insane house for sale in Georgetown. The only caveat: It’s $11,500,000. We know, we know—that is a ridiculous amount of money. But hear us out: the five...
View ArticleShe Loves Me Is Opening Two New Flower Shops in DC
If you’ve walked past the Petworth flower shop She Loves Me recently, you may have noticed it’s closed. But don’t freak out—the business isn’t shutting down. It’s just expanding and opening two new...
View ArticleHow New Technology Is Revealing Civil War Secrets of an Old House
One day in the early 1860s, a Union soldier named Stephen signed his name on the wall of a Virginia farmhouse, adding his tag to hundreds of others that covered the inside of the structure. The house,...
View ArticleLook Inside My Home: A Renovated Bloomingdale Apartment With Tons of Natural...
David Polk is an architect, artist, and an adjunct design professor at Marymount University and George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. So it makes sense that he has a...
View Article3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Freak Out About Cicadas
People need to chill out about cicadas. That’s the advice I got when I called Dr. Paula Shrewsbury, a professor in the University of Maryland’s entomology department, to ask her about last minute yard...
View ArticleBrood X Won’t Go After Your Flowers or Veggies. But You May Need to Worry...
Brood X season is upon us, and some folks are worried about shielding themselves from cicada attacks, or whether dogs and cats can eat them, or whether we humans can eat them. They’re also apparently...
View ArticleA Homemade “Bridgerton” Dress Went Viral on TikTok
Step 1: Learn the basics When Lama Ali was picking a major as a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, she was surprised to find herself drawn to clothing design. “It wasn’t something I...
View ArticleLook Inside Five Bathroom Remodels Evocative of Luxury Vacations
1. Inspiration: Vintage New York City. Before: After: Key elements: Antique fixtures, steel-framed shower, hex tile. Architect Jim Rill and designer Lauren Liess teamed up to create this 1900s-inspired...
View ArticleFollow These Local Designers As They Each Transform a Room in Eight Weeks
If you’re a big interior design fan (or just follow a lot of design accounts on IG), you’ve likely heard of the One Room Challenge. But for the uninitiated, it’s a biannual event where people sign up...
View ArticleDC Architect Carmel Greer Is Selling Her Incredibly Stylish Home
Carmel Greer only finished designing and building her family’s seven-bedroom house in DC’s Kent neighborhood in 2018. But the architect and owner of District Design says Covid made her and her husband...
View ArticleThis Group Wants to Make It Easier for You to Buy and Sell Secondhand Furniture
Anyone who’s navigated buying or selling used furniture on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace knows it can be a lot of work. Sure, you can score a coffee table for much cheaper than you would in-store,...
View ArticleLook Inside My Home: A Centreville House With a George Washington Portrait...
Michelle Whitener moved nine times over the course of 20 years, so she was thrilled to settle in her current Centreville home three-and-a-half years ago, where she’s close to family, walking trails,...
View ArticleA Pair of DC Expats Scored This Historic Farmhouse on Craigslist, Then...
Ron Blunt was into country living before it was cool—or at least before a pandemic sent thousands of his fellow urbanites skittering out of town and away from city crowds. Back in the early 2000s,...
View ArticleSalt & Sundry Is Launching a Bethesda Pop-Up
Soon Montgomery County folks won’t have to trek into DC to get their Salt & Sundry fix. The lifestyle and home decor group is opening a pop-up in Bethesda Row in early August. It’ll be the third...
View ArticleExercise Dresses Are Going Viral on TikTok. What Is an Exercise Dress, You Ask?
You may have seen “cottagecore” fashion and ankle jeans take over the Internet these past few months. Now, there’s a new TikTok fashion trend that millennials and Gen Z-ers have been donning: the...
View ArticleNightlife Is Back, So What’s Everyone Wearing?
More than a month after nightclubs have fully reopened, lines for popular Dupont clubs like Rose Bar and Cafe Citron are back to snaking down the block again. But has going-out fashion also returned to...
View ArticlePeople Are Reevaluating Their Work Wardrobes as They Return to Office Life
Jessica Lee started a new consulting job during the pandemic. Good for Lee, but that also means that the 31-year-old Dupont Circle resident has to deal with a double-whammy: Figuring out the dress code...
View ArticleSix Hairstyling Tips to Get Out the Door Faster in the Morning
If You Like Beachy Waves Sleep with your hair in a loose braid, says Amie Decker of Amie Decker Beauty. In the morning, all you have to do is untie the braid, run your fingers through the waves, and...
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