I was convinced the lady who knew where all the witches were in Georgetown was the same one selling crystal balls.

“We do have specimens that are spherical,” replied Becky Waddell co-owner of District Mineral, “but no one’s ever come in claiming to be a witch,” she added calmly.

I have a pretty modern view of witches: women who were ahead of their time, women who were healers, women who had minds of their own, women who were powerful. And those are some of the qualities I thought earned you the slap of “witch” in days of yore.   

The Roman Catholic Church wears its age well — and yet, after 2,000 years, is still developing new features, still growing into its body. Perhaps, for world religions, 2,000 years seems like puberty: you’re at the age where lots of people know you and recognize you, but inside you’re expanding in ways that are still going to surprise them.

I initially published this article without a preface. That was a mistake. I have no doubt immense work went into these issues. God only knows how many jobs Vogue creates and sustains. As much as I would welcome it, I do not have a front row seat to this office...

When we think about homelessness in light of the corporal work of sheltering the homeless, we often think of people on the street. Who hasn’t passed by a pile of blankets and cardboard and felt the pain of knowing there was likely a person breathing underneath?

1. Lorde The supernova singer spoke out when images both photoshopped and not were published from the same concert. And while her opinions on digital editing reveal her unique social intelligence, it is in the moments she chooses to go barefaced when we realize just...

Advent is a peculiar time of year. This past Sunday in mass, the priest said Advent is one of the most reflective periods of our church calendar. That hasn’t been the case for me. My most reflective time is usually Lent. What starts off as a small, relatively...

A peek at where our Presidents lived as Cabinet Secretaries, senators, high-court justices, and more—and how the homes look today.

On Monday night, the Washington AIDS Partnership joined forces with Arena Stage and the cast from The Normal Heart to celebrate the biennial International AIDS Conference taking place this year in Washington.

A 24-by-48-foot mural, the largest painted by a single artist in the 20th century and equal in size to one wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, was moved last week from the lobby of Feld Entertainment in Vienna, Virginia, after being there for 22 years.

After a valiantly fought four-year contest with kidney cancer, Lucia Anne Ferrara came to rest in peace Tuesday, June 5, 2012. She passed with grace under the watchful and caring eyes of St. Peter at his New Scotland Avenue Inn at 57 years old. It is impossible to measure the love she had for her family and friends, which she showed everyday in good times and in bad.

Last Wednesday’s weather didn’t put a damper on the fashion of the guests at the 20th anniversary of the Tudor Place’s garden party. Washingtonians clad in polka dots, feathers, seersucker, and pearls of every color stepped through the front door, accepting a glass of lemonade, vodka, mint, and honey syrup—a Bee’s Buzz—as they were greeted by a fife and field drum corps playing Revolutionary War-era tunes.

Is a summer breeze carrying you east or west this summer? Wherever you’re headed, there is a better alternative to those Ziploc Transportation Security Agency plastic bags. The debut collection of No. 9’s jewelry rolls, cosmetic cases and fan-shaped zipper cases (all available at bergdorfgoodman.com) got us thinking about functional yet adorable toiletry cases.

During summer months, the feet are most on display. And while many of us go out of our way to pamper our toes with pedicures, our shoes can take the real beating. Just because you aren’t tromping through snow and slush doesn’t mean your footwear doesn’t need T.L.C. Just ask David Mesquita.

What would you do with $10 million? Would you build three, 25-foot-tall, egg-shaped structures that filter out pollutants from the local creek? Would you take out the front of an old factory and turn it into a boat dock with a sexy esplanade? Would you fill a couple...

Was it the dog walker with the leash? Was it the groomer with the scissors? Was it the trainer with the poisoned dog food?

Cohoes, New York The man who operated one of the first IBM computers in the New York Capital region, a huge piece of equipment called a tabulating machine, was not a scientist, or a computer wizard, or even a skilled technician. He was a lover of the great outdoors, a...

Ice on the tip of my door handle dripped onto my slipper. It soaked through to the top of my toe. I thought of you.

Flip flops are not just a silly wardrobe decision the students of GeorgetownUniversity are making here in November, as the bitter autumn wind bites theirbare little toes. Two days before the 2008 Presidential election, students areflip flopping over who they are going to vote for, and why.

Justin Rockefeller attended the Democratic National Convention last month and The Denver Post caught up with him on his perspective as a young voter and his new mission, Generation Engage.