The Prices Do DC

Sometimes a biographer finds a subject. And sometimes a subject finds a biographer. In 2004, Steve Jobs (in case you have been spending th...

Sasquatch? Or something else? When I was 10, I read Stranger Than Science by Frank Edwards, a book that detailed unexplained events fro...

Dinner plate designed for President Hayes After 9/11 it is difficult to tour the White House. However, if you would like to see somethin...

Sanitation workers at a Memphis, Tennessee demonstration The 1960s was a particularly turbulent time in America. Assassinations. Student...

Like so many of his generation, award-winning biographer Charles Shields became fascinated with the writings of Kurt Vonnegut as a college...

Just grin and bear it. There are some things best seen through the eyes of a child. Christmas morning. Disney World. And zoos of any typ...

Asleep at the Wheel in concert When I was growing up, Sunday mornings always had a reassuring sameness to them. While my Mother and I wo...

No where is the legacy of a president more lasting than in his (and someday her) power to appoint Supreme Court j ustices who serve for li...

Ray Davies: He's Not Like Everybody Else In 1964, the songs of the British Invasion began forming the soundtrack for my life. I was ...

Cuba: Where the old is new Cuba is only a 45-minute plane ride from Miami. But for the past 50 years, our Communist island neighbor migh...

Christopher Lawrence on the scene At first, CNN military correspondent Christopher Lawrence thought the scene was funny. But, on further...

In the hip, psychedelic 60s, superstar pop artist Andy Warhol often combined his 4-minute, 1-character films called screen tests with live...

 Devin with his new friends at the Crime Museum Two of the best things about having your 15-year-old grandnephew as a running buddy is: ...

Every non-rainy afternoon, walking back to the Metro station after consulting at Dunbar High School, I would come across the elderly black g...

The current Dunbar High School: Ground to be broken next week for a new building Normally, when I finish my consulting day at Dunbar Hig...

It was a beautiful, warm American Autumn day in DC. At McPherson Square, the Occupy DC protesters were going about their daily tasks. Some w...

It was one of the most disturbing art images I had ever encountered, chilling in simplicity, large in scope, horrifying in its implications,...

Two boys named Wes Moore. Both black. Both from the streets of Baltimore. Both raised without fathers. Both finding trouble in school and ...

Sly and his family get down and get funky When David Dorfman first saw Sly and the Family Stone as a university freshman in 1973, he pro...

If you turn 90 in DC, how do you celebrate? Well, if you are The Phillips Collection art museum you have Mayor Vincent Gray proclaim a spe...