Vida restaurant was a sea of blonde hair and plaid gladrags at the Madison club’s second annual Mad in Plaid party on February 25. The twenty-something crowd of 400 danced to a DJ spinning top-40 hits ...

A spring celebration with the Young Benefactors of the Smithsonian featured a private viewing of Hokusai, the blockbuster exhibition of works by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Guests ...

The New House of Sweden fi nally glows on Washington's waterfront and Sweden's King and Queen are coming to dedicate it - no wonder Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Lund and his wife Kari Lotsberg are ...

Art enthusiasts and fans of Caio Fonseca gathered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art for a preview of the acclaimed artist’s first solo presentation in a U.S. museum. Following the reception, Corcoran ...

Chief of Protocol Donald Ensenat, former Chief of Protocol Marion ("Joe") Smoak and internationally known polo player Juan Salinas-Bentley put their heads together to revive the Chief of Protocol Cup ...

Trotting horses, cracking whips and trumpeters' calls from antique carriage tops brought the Gilded Age back to Newport for a few memorable days in August during the Newport Preservation Society's ...

Born to Austrian parents, Christopher Reiter graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in finance. His real education, however, came from the vast amount of time he and his friends spent ...

Harvard alums and their friends gathered at the Chevy Chase home of Elbridge and Susan Colby to celebrate author Ross Douthat’s first book,“Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class” on ...

World renowned fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg gave a lively lecture at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in cooperation with the Embassy of Belgium on January 24. The Belgian-born designer revealed ...

Guests gathered in March at the home of McLean businessman Michael Ansari and his wife, Karen, to honor Farah Pahlavi and celebrate the publication of her autobiography, “Enduring Love: My Life with ...

A few days after her nomination as the next U.S. ambassador to Barbados Mary Ourisman trekked across the Key Bridge to deepest Rosslyn for her first diplomatic negotiation. In a high security office, ...

The late 60s and early 70s were a turbulent time of civil unrest in American history, when people were confronted by tragedy, war and a divided nation. Photographer David Fenton, then a teenage high ...