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Lanae Spruce describes herself as a foodie and cultural connoisseur. But in the nation’s capital, the 31-year-old is better known for digital storytelling and building social media brands. Until September, Ms. Spruce designed and managed the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s award-winning social media accounts for more than six years. ImageLanae […]

MADRID — Living in Europe, I’m frequently reminded of an oft-repeated dictum from my high school French teacher, Madame Morris, who insisted that Europeans — at least the late 20th-century ones she knew — would rather invest in a few quality garments than a closet full of cheaply made clothes. While Zara, H&M and other

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The Hotel Kyjev has dominated Bratislava’s skyline in stark, tombstonelike fashion since 1973, a Brutalist holdover from the communist era. But the building, long closed as a hotel, got a personality makeover in August 2018, when it was dragooned into service as part of a festival plastering the city with street art.

RICHMOND, Va. — Behind a pane of glass at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a wooden bed frame anchors a sparsely decorated motel room. Vintage suitcases have been arranged at the foot of the bed, and light streams in diagonally through a window, just beyond which a green Buick is visible, parked in the

The Transportation Department is granting antitrust immunity to let Delta expand a joint venture with Air France, KLM and Virgin Atlantic November 21, 2019, 8:25 PM 1 min read The Transportation Department is letting Delta Air Lines, Air France, KLM and Virgin Atlantic expand their joint venture on flights between the U.S. and Europe without

LONDON — Hackney Wick seems one of the few areas of London that’s still on the cusp of gentrification. Around the corner from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, it’s benefiting from upgrades tied to the 2012 Olympics and has become a hipster haunt brimming with bars, breweries and a smattering of shops. With its wall-to-wall

PARIS — It was 1927, and Le Corbusier had already declared, “The house is a machine for living in.” But like Charlie Chaplin in “Modern Times,” he hadn’t quite figured out how to live with the machine from a practical, everyday point of view in the living room, for example, or the bedroom. Yes, the

Walking into a Broadway theater at show time is something special — the electricity, the excited murmurs, the shared anticipation. But, it turns out, walking into an empty Broadway theater can be just as fun. A newly launched tour of the Hudson Theatre offers a rare chance to wander around the interior of Broadway’s oldest

On a recent visit to Budapest, I stumbled across Karolina Gallery, a lovely pottery shop at 55 Andrassy Avenue, the city’s blend of the Champs-Élysées and Broadway. As a ceramics lover, I could not resist a few pieces crafted in the pottery-making tradition of Mezotur, a town in eastern Hungary known for its practical and

Las Vegas police are reporting that a person was shot and injured by police at McCarran International Airport and media outlets say the shooting happened on the tarmac November 21, 2019, 2:42 PM 1 min read Las Vegas police say a person was shot and injured by police at McCarran International Airport and media outlets