Northern Virginia decorator Lauren Liess has been blogging at Pure Style Home for more than seven years, writing about her life, work and the laid-back approach she takes to design. Liess runs an interior design and textiles firm in Great Falls with her husband, David, and her first book, “Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating,” […]

Fireworks Mobile Wood Fired Pizza of Turner Pizza is one of those foods Americans never grow tired of eating and reinventing. Hot, crispy and topped with everything from marinara to barbecue sauce to pesto. Fresh veggies and herbs and just the right amount of cheese to hold it all together. Who doesn’t wake up in […]

WASHINGTON – The guy had only left the table for a minute. But as soon as he was out of sight, his date whipped out her phone, opened Tinder and started swiping. “It was deceitful, a little bit,” says Chris McNeal, general manager of Bar Dupont, who’d watched the scene unfold, slightly aghast that this […]

It is just a simple selfie video of a Texas mom laughing hysterically at the talking Chewbacca mask she bought herself as a birthday present. But when Candace Payne wrestles the mask from its box and slips it on, and then can’t contain her childlike glee at its Wookiee sounds, viewers couldn’t help but share […]

Researchers examining more than 10 million Facebook statuses across 65,000 users who opted in to having their posts analyzed found that women were more inclined to use “warmer” words expressing positive emotions and referencing social relationships, while men were linked to words related to politics, objects, and anger. The international, interdisciplinary team of researchers behind […]

The baby girl was born in November 1984. She was placed in a box and left in a San Francisco State University dormitory laundry room by her mother, who was a student at the school, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. In that laundry room, she was discovered by a student named Patrick, the newspaper […]

Under America’s diagnosis, I am a “crazy cat lady.” This is a judgment, an accusation, a scarlet “C” scratched into my forearm by one of my three cats. Google the phrase and you will find scores of women frantically defending their right to have cats without being branded as “crazy.” Here’s a checklist I’m supposed […]

Spontaneous change in vacation plansleads to ‘the best family vacation ever’ My husband prefers spontaneity to planning. For the first few years of our relationship, his wait-and-see approach led to an adventurous lifestyle that threw my risk-averse self so off balance, I fell head over heels. Under his influence, and without commitments, anything was possible. […]