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Blue Wednesday: Cranes took down Joel Shapiro's "Blue" sculpture yesterday, drawing pushback from locals who see the removal as another way for the Kennedy Center's current leadership to enrage art lovers. The late Shapiro once described his 2019 work in

It has been more than 50 years since Jaws made Steven Spielberg a household name, but you can still see its influence today. In the first hour of the Korean creature feature Hope, the similarities must be deliberate. Director and writer Na Hong-jin, who w

Thursday: Adam Ant at Wolf Trap Even in a decade like the 1980s where garish costumes were de rigueur, what possessed Adam Ant to dress like a brassy pirate? The answer, unsurprisingly, was Malcolm McLaren, best known as the Svengali behind the Sex Pistol

Bowling for dollars: The White House is renovating its double-lane Harry S. Truman Bowling Alley and plans to spend $253,000 on lighting, according to public contract awards reviewed by West Wing Playbook. Charles Mann Enterprises was given a $878,000 con

On Wednesday, Aug. 19, RUSH Bar & Restaurant was evicted from its location on 14th and U streets NW following months of financial and legal turmoil. Around 1 p.m., U.S. Marshals arrived promptly outside the business, which had already been vacated-RUSH st

Dog bytes: First it was electric shock gloves; now it's robot dogs equipped with 360-degree cameras, which ICE plans to spend $2 million on. These robots are also being used by police departments and the Secret Service, and protecting data centers. Accord

Understanding the difference between all-wheel drive (AWD) and four-wheel drive (4WD) systems can be confusing. Their functionalities are similar. Both systems engage all four wheels at one point or another, and both increase traction control when necessa

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Sept. 1. It was updated on Sept. 3 with former executive director André Mazelin responses that were supplied to the writer before press time and were regrettably languishing in a spam folder when we in

Land sharks: A new report from NOTUS says convicted felon and President Donald Trump plans to give a corner of Yosemite National Park to a private hotel developer. National Park Service staff in California and D.C. are working on a land exchange between a