News & Politics The January Sixers Have Their Own Unit at the DC Jail. Here’s What Life Is Like Inside. They’ve got their own internal justice system for problem-solving—and a Sunday comedy ritual. January 6, Marjorie Taylor Greene, DC Jail, QAnon Shaman | Jan 5, 2022
News & Politics Washingtonian’s Best Longreads of 2021 10 great feature stories we published this year Donald Trump, covid, Trump Hotel, Jeff Bezos | Dec 30, 2021
News & Politics Kal Penn Kind of Promised to Have an Obama Holiday Party at a DC Strip Bar And other funny stories from Penn’s new memoir, "You Can’t Be Serious." Barack Obama, Book release, Kal Penn, You Can’t Be Serious | Dec 30, 2021
News & Politics More and More Women Are Paying Alimony to Failure-to-Launch Ex-Husbands. And They’re Really, Really Not Happy About It. “It’s not just as simple as saying, ‘Because men pay it, women should pay it too.’ ” Divorce, Alimony | Dec 3, 2021
News & Politics Inside the Plan to Make Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post the Everything Newspaper The Post has a new executive editor—Sally Buzbee, the first woman to top the masthead—and visions of becoming the world’s go-to news outlet. The story of the search for Buzbee, and the future at the hometown paper that has long stopped thinking of itself as such. Media, The Washington Post, Features, Jeff Bezos | Aug 25, 2021
News & Politics Inside the Making of the Britney Spears Musical After a year of seismic developments in the pop star’s real-life soap opera, a Broadway show set to her music—with a rise-up tale about a posse of princesses who become feminists—is set to debut. And it premieres in Washington. Features, Britney Spears, Musical, Broadway | Nov 19, 2021
Food | News & Politics The Vegan Food Wars of DC A crew of innovator chefs and entrepreneurs have turned Washington into a hub of plant-forward dining. But they have all kinds of competing ideas about what meat-free fare should be. Features, Vegan, Spike Mendelsohn, vegan food | Oct 7, 2021
News & Politics It Was One Wet Hot Vax Summer at Seacrets At the six-acre, 19-tiki-bar compound in Ocean City, it was almost as if the pandemic never happened . . . COVID-19, Features, pandemic, summer | Sep 1, 2021
News & Politics How Washington Mystics Point Guard Natasha Cloud Became the WNBA’s Unofficial Minister of Social Justice The making of an activist athlete—and her turbulent year navigating court crises, a political rift within her own family, and her new role as spiritual leader of the Mystics team. Basketball, Washington Mystics, WNBA, Natasha Cloud | Jul 8, 2021
Food | News & Politics Vinoda Basnayake Is a Beltway Whisperer for Middle Eastern Royalty—and the Operator of DC’s Sceniest Nightlife Spots He’s our town’s hookup to all kinds of big-name celebs, but also a super-wired foreign lobbyist. The two lives aren’t as different as you might think. Features, Kanye West, Nightclubs, Dave Chappelle | Nov 17, 2021
