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Even on a busy night at his Spaghetti Garden restaurant in the Adams Morgan neighborhood, Iraj Askarinam would answer a knock at the back door of his kitchen.

The West Building of the National Gallery of Art in D.C. will partially reopen Monday.

On Oct. 2, 2001, two years after he had taken ownership of the marquee NFL franchise in the nation’s capital, Daniel Snyder stood behind the lectern at the center of the head table at a National Press Club luncheon. He began with a speech…

In their heyday, the trucks drew hourlong lines of downtown office workers.

D.C. Central Kitchen has partnered with Maryland’s Flying Dog Brewery and enlisted top local chefs for a digital cookbook that will raise funds for the Kitchen’s COVID-19 response work.

Washington’s NFL franchise officially announced Monday it will drop its controversial nickname after 87 years, signaling the imminent end of an era in which the franchise was labeled with a dictionary-defined racial slur.

Starting on July 20, visitors will be allowed into parts of D.C.’s National Gallery of Art for the first time in four months. It is one of the first museums on the National Mall to reopen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and…

Seven people were killed in D.C. over the weekend, and now the homicide total in the District this year has passed 100. That’s 23% higher than where the city was at this time in 2019, when the D.C. murder rate was higher than it has been…

TWO YEARS after the National Congress of American Indians launched a campaign to combat harmful stereotypes of native people in media and popular culture, the University of Oklahoma retired its “Little Red” mascot. That was in 1970.…

How do arts organizations get back to business safely? The Washington Ballet stumbled with its online gala, which was streamed live from its studios June 18.