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DC restaurant tops Esquire's Best New Restaurants list (and another makes the top 10) 11/14/2019 11:09am • D.C.'s Kwame Onwuachi is winner of Esquire's Chef of the Year. Esquire Magazine's 2019 list of the Best New Restaurants in America puts D.C.'s Seven Reasons, the Venezuelan restaurant on 14th Street, at the top of the list. Seven Reasons, which opened last April, credits chef Enrique Limardo 10 painless ways to save more for retirement 11/14/2019 10:30am • Saving for retirement doesn't have to be a chore. A few small changes can result in a much bigger retirement account balance, given enough time to compound. Here are some ways to save more for retirement without reducing your quality of life. Save 1% More A small increase in saving can result in a Movie Review: Matt Damon, Christian Bale rev up in 'Ford v Ferrari' 11/14/2019 02:33am • What's your favorite racing movie? Think hard. There haven’t been too many. Decades ago, we saw James Caan in “Red Line 7000” (1965), James Garner in “Grand Prix” (1966), Paul Newman in "Winning" (1969), Steve McQueen in "Le Mans" (1971) and Burt Reynolds in "The Cannonball Run" Movie Review: 'Midway' is standard-issue account of World War II turning point 11/11/2019 02:02am • The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the Pacific front in World War II. And yet, it somehow hasn't captured the Hollywood imagination like the D-Day Invasion or Iwo Jima. Decades after the Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda vehicle "Midway" (1976), the battle was ironically left out of AWLA reopens after disease outbreak 11/09/2019 05:36pm • The Animal Welfare League of Arlington is fully open again, following an outbreak of parvo virus, a highly contagious gastrointestinal illness. AWLA CEO Samuel Wolbert said that once two recent arrivals, dogs named Rolo and Slim Jim, tested positive, the shelter was closed "out of an abundance of Iran says case open on ex-FBI agent missing there on CIA job 11/09/2019 07:57am • In this March 6, 2012, file photo, an FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now after five years in captivity, and an image, center, taken from the video, released by his kidnappers, and a picture before he was kidnapped, left, di Veterans Day 2019: Freebies and deals 11/08/2019 12:40pm • As America honors service members who served and sacrificed, there are a number of freebies and deals for veterans and active-duty military this Veterans Day. What's open, what's closed on Veterans Day Things to do Colonial Williamsburg: Free admission for all active-duty military, re Online shoppers beware: Experts see increase in phony e-commerce sites 11/08/2019 10:58am • It’s the time of year when retailers are ramping up for the holiday shopping season. And as online shopping becomes a bigger part of the retail experience, cyber experts say there has been a huge surge in registered websites that appear to mimic some of the leading online retailers. NormShield, Metro ready to bring back some late-night hours 11/08/2019 04:00am • Changes to Metro maintenance are a major driver behind plans to bring back some late-night service. “We think we are now in a place where we can propose an increase in service hours that will not degrade safety or reliability significantly,” rail chief Laura Mason told the Metro Board Thursda Presto’s college football picks: Maryland’s model meets the limelight 11/08/2019 02:52am • The second Saturday of November represents a major upgrade in matchups. No offense to Florida-Georgia, but a pair of one-loss teams in The Swamp pales in comparison to not only two games involving unbeatens but the first No. 1 vs. No. 2 (AP, not CFP) in the regular season since 2011. That game w Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison to perform live in hologram at Strathmore 11/07/2019 12:58am • Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at age 52 in 1988, while Buddy Holly was killed in a tragic plane crash at age 22 on "The Day the Music Died" in 1959. But you can still watch them perform live in hologram with the "Rock 'n Roll Dream Tour" at Strathmore in North Bethesda on Nov. 13. "T 'New day' in Virginia after Democrats take control of state government 11/06/2019 11:01am • For the first time in 26 years, Democrats won full control of Virginia's state government in Tuesday's election. Gov. Ralph Northam and former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, both Democrats, wasted no time Wednesday celebrating while also pledging swift action. "It's a new day in Virginia and it's reall Gerardo Parra wants to stay with the Nats, keep 'Baby Shark' as walk up music 11/06/2019 10:37am • Washington Nationals right fielder Gerardo Parra celebrates with the World Series trophy and a stuffed baby shark at a rally after a parade to celebrate the team's World Series baseball championship over the Houston Astros, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) After Man stabbed to death over Popeyes chicken sandwich in Oxon Hill 11/05/2019 05:19am • A fight that broke out when somebody jumped ahead in a line for Popeyes' popular chicken sandwich turned deadly in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Monday night. Prince George's County police said a 28-year-old man died after he was stabbed multiple times in the parking lot of the restaurant on Livingston Ro Mfume, who preceded Cummings, announces run to succeed him 11/04/2019 01:37pm • Kweisi Mfume announced Monday he's running to succeed the late Rep. Elijah Cummings in the Maryland congressional seat the former NAACP president also held for a nearly a decade in the 1980s and 1990s. In a speech Monday at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & C