Beginning today, every fifth person you see on the Metro for the next nine months will be reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. And for the next year or two, every third tourist you see will be on a quixotic quest to see for themselves all the D.C. "locations" where the fictional events in the book took place. more ›

Earlier this year we pointed out that DaVinci Code author Dan Brown's newest book, The Lost Symbol, is set here in Washington, concerns itself with the mysteries of the Masons, and is due out in September. Now via The New York Times' Arts Beat blog, we finally get a look at the cover of the book, which depicts "a shadowy skyline of the Capitol." more ›

Kids at the LEGO Master Builder event in Tyson's Corner this weekend are fulfilling one of my lifelong career goals: To construct giant images from under the tutelage of master LEGO masons. Look you will at Rebecca Cooper's photos from the event! As of yesterday afternoon, Masters and Padawans had completed about a third of giant Yoda. more ›