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Va. pub owner shares what makes America's St. Patrick's Day celebrations unique 03/15/2018 11:26pm • WASHINGTON — For one Irish pub in Tysons, Virginia, St. Patrick’s Day will be its busiest day of the year, as folks dressed in green come for corned beef and cabbage, and wash it all down with a pint of Guinness. “It’s great to see the joy that comes into people’s faces when they start 10 Home Landscaping Rules You Should Never Break 03/13/2018 08:00pm • Your home's exterior appearance is important, whether you like to admire your garden from your living room window, host regular backyard barbecues or have a youth soccer team practice out front on the weekends. Planning the right landscaping -- purely for aesthetics or utility -- is imperative to h Playing Through: Pinecrest Golf Course, with DC United’s Steve Birnbaum 03/09/2018 03:23am • ALEXANDRIA, Va. — This was always going to be a busy year for Steve Birnbaum. Despite the fact that the U.S. Men’s National Team, for which he's made 11 appearances, won’t be playing in this summer’s World Cup, the D.C. United defender’s plate is plenty full. He's become one of the most Metro expects huge crowds as gun control march and cherry blossom festival collide 03/07/2018 12:49pm • Update noon Thursday: Metro plans to run near-rush-hour service from opening at 7 a.m. March 24 through approximately 6 p.m. Trains will be scheduled every 8 minutes on each line, with more frequent service at stations served by multiple lines. Metrobus will run on a Saturday schedule, with detours Thousands without power in DC region 03/07/2018 05:13am • WASHINGTON — While the number of overall power outages caused by Friday's windstorm fell to fewer than 5,000 customers without power Wednesday morning, a mix of rain and snow that fell upon the D.C. area Tuesday night exacerbated some additional utility disruptions. Utility crews have been work Metro could extend rush-hour service to Shady Grove and Rockville 03/05/2018 11:23am • WASHINGTON – Metro could add additional rush-hour Red Line service to Shady Grove and Rockville in Maryland by the end of 2018, but several barriers and concerns remain. Metro is now considering three options: Extending all trains that currently turn back at Grosvenor-Strathmore so they th Pepco, Dominion cautious about promising when power will be restored 03/04/2018 06:45pm • WASHINGTON — Following the harshest windstorm the D.C. area has seen in five years, power companies are hustling to get the lights back on for customers throughout the region, but it may take days for the power to be restored fully. Pepco President and CEO Dave Velasquez said that Pepco anticip Clean up operation underway after high winds hit DC area 03/04/2018 06:45pm • WASHINGTON — The clean up operation continues Sunday, with hundreds of thousands of people still without power, and lingering traffic effects from Friday's wind storm that brought wind gusts up to 70 mph to the D.C. area. As of early Sunday, some 150,000 people are still without power. Official Movie Review: Spy flick 'Red Sparrow' has kompromat on Jennifer Lawrence 03/02/2018 12:39am • WASHINGTON — Once an Oscar darling for "Winter's Bone," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle," it's a bizarre turn of events that Jennifer Lawrence won't be competing at the Academy Awards this weekend but rather at the Razzies, honoring Hollywood's worst. Her nomination comes for How a math professor created the information center of the sports world 03/01/2018 03:38am • PHILADELPHIA — Every statistic tells a story. Those stories can be simple, complex, incomplete, even seemingly contradictory at times, depending on how the numbers are tracked and presented. The story of the four-batter sequence in the top of the fifth inning of Game 5 of the 2017 NLDS betwe Hexagon returns with political comedy variety show 'Tweet Land of Liberty' 02/27/2018 01:20am • WASHINGTON — It's become an annual tradition in Northwest D.C. for the past 64 years, as local volunteers put together a variety show of political comedy ripe for the nation's capital. But this year's Hexagon event will be particularly unique, simply because the year in politics has been ve Tell Yourself This Before Making a Healthy Change 02/22/2018 07:00pm • "You'll be fine!" "Piece of cake!" "Come on, lightweight!" "Just do it!" The messages we tend to receive in advance of a difficult task can be confusing. The assumption is that claiming we'll be fine (when failure is a potential option) will make us feel more comfortable, or that claiming the task Here's How Super Cold Weather Affects Winter Olympians' Diets 02/21/2018 07:00pm • PyeongChang, South Korea, is freezing, to say the least. In fact, the city's epically cold temps -- dipping down to negative 4 degrees Fahrenheit at times -- are warping skis and freezing solid television equipment and anchors' makeup. The brutal wind that's postponed a few downhill skiing events h 'Black Panther' pop-up bar in DC ushers folks into Wakanda 02/18/2018 10:33pm • WAKANDA — Folks in the D.C. area still have an opportunity to celebrate the newly released "Black Panther" movie with a trip to Wakanda — in the form of a pop-up bar. Monday is the last day for Enter Wakanda at Red Lounge on 14th Street NW in D.C.'s U Street neighborhood. Tickets are stagge DC ready to host the world's 'largest minority swim meet' 02/17/2018 07:29pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'c11b4a12-31c5-4d67-a50a-7bbcbdf370cc' }).render("525615368cfdb493");}); WASHINGTON — While Olympic athletes are