D.C. might be the sort of place where people are into tawdry affairs, but it's not much of a porn-viewing sort of a town. more ›

Dulles Airport may not be very highly regarded, but it's certainly better than the three airports serving New York. Also: Baltimore is OK, but Reagan National gets no love. more ›

D.C. is apparently so square that even San Juan, Puerto Rico and Kansas City, Missouri are considered better places for hipsters. more ›

The latest lifestyle ranking bestowed on Washington seems so improbable, it's almost seems worth blowing a gasket and punching a wall over. But calm down. Turns out, the D.C. area is a low-stress place. more ›

Virginia really is for lovers—of unlimited campaign contributions and other practices that make the Old Dominion a honeypot of political corruption, according to a new report gauging the public integrity of the states. more ›

The April issue of Glamour has some statistically driven advice for D.C. women: Stay single and stay happy. A survey the magazine and Match.com conducted found that 86.7 percent of District women are happy with their dating lives. more ›

Forbes released yesterday its annual list of the world's billionaires. Of the 1,226 names on the list worth a collective $4.6 trillion—both all-time records, by the way—14 of them live in the greater Washington area. more ›

Four D.C. restaurants and one place somewhat errantly identified as being in the District made a list of the "101 Best Restaurants in America" as compiled by the food website The Daily Meal. more ›

Something else D.C. is pretty good at? Setting scientific education standards for our public school students. The District tied with California to top a national survey of science curricula. more ›

The District topped yet another ranking, this time for the percentage of low-income students enrolled in the school breakfast program. more ›

More from the Rankings Department: we're a very literate and pretty generous city. more ›

Last week The Daily Beast didn't include the District in its list of the country's top 20 most tolerant cities, and now Travel and Leisure has us ranked as the third rudest city in the U.S.: more ›

If you want a great cocktail, head to The Passenger. But how about a great beer? more ›

How tolerant is the District? Apparently less so than Durham, Baltimore, Austin, Trenton, Tampa and a host of other cities. Or so The Daily Beast would have you believe. more ›

The Daily Beast ranked U.S. cities according to their dating scenes. Washington came in No. 10, bested only by a bunch of college towns. Not on the list? You'll never guess. more ›

Georgetown University may be well known for being something of an establishment university, the sort of place where a young politician-to-be can begin to amass a sense of what it takes to be powerful and the types of friends required to get their. But it's also a great place for hipsters and vegans. more ›

In what has, for whatever silly reason, become the story to chat about around the local media this week, Parenting magazine rated Washington D.C. the number one place for families in the country, citing our vast supply of cultural institutions, recreational opportunities and kid-friendly restaurants as signs that the District is the place to raise a kid. Of course, not everyone agrees. more ›

The popularity of the Washington R*******, despite Washington's lemming-like insistence on religiously following the team regardless of its failures on the field and off, has been in the toilet for some time. But we never realized things were this bad (okay, maybe we did): Dan Snyder's cash cow is the second-worst franchise in professional sports. more ›

For those curious, here's how the candidates in the upcoming D.C. Council special election fared on the election season questionnaire handed out by the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. more ›

Is the District the most well-read city in the United States? Central Connecticut State University says so: their annual rankings of America’s Most Literate Cities ranks Washington, DC at the top of the list. more ›

According to new data from the Brookings Institution, D.C.'s home price recovery is "among the worst in the nation," ranking 33rd on a list of the 100 biggest housing markets. What's that you say? You thought the D.C. housing market was doing pretty well, up, say, 4.5 percent year over year? more ›

According to the people over at Business Insider, who apparently have the resources to pen double-bylined stories which basically entail reporters looking up swear words on Google, says that for the second straight year, a Virginia suburb is "the most obscene place in America." Ashburn, Virginia earned the award this year -- in 2009, Herndon took top honors as the place to get your expletive on. (Herndon finished third this year.) more ›

Hey, did you guys read the news this morning? We're basically living inside Thunderdome! "Report: D.C., Baltimore among most dangerous cities" shouts the headline on WTOP this morning -- the story opens by informing us that we should all be locking up our wallets and never leaving the house ever again: "The list...lists D.C. as the fourth most unsafe city with more than half a million people." Egads! Of course, once you get past the lede and actually look at the study, there is good cause to not start preparing for martial law quite yet. The District actually finished as the 22nd "most dangerous" city on the list (PDF). We also thought that we'd quote this reaction from Houston Mayor Annise D. Parker in full, since it does a nice job of condensing all the issues with these rankings that we've read so far this morning: “These rankings represent a gross misuse of FBI data...Everyone with the slightest knowledge of this issue knows the rankings are not credible, but the publication persists with them, presumably because rankings are popular and sell books. Unfortunately, they also do real harm to the reputation and economy of the cities that come out on the losing end, often through no fault of their own.” Good, now we can all feel safe enough to go out and do the other thing that the media is telling us to do ad nauseam this week! more ›

A Newsweek report shows that 7 of the 10 richest counties in the country are in the D.C. metro region. Newsweek used data from the 2009 Census to inform their rankings. The richest county in the country is Virginia's Loudoun County, with a median income of a staggering $114,204. Following are VA's Fairfax County (number 2), MD's Howard County (number 3), VA's Arlington County (number 5), MD's Montgomery County (number 6), MD's Calvert County (number 9), and MD's Charles County (number 10). Yeah, those suburbanites have a lot of money. more ›

Okay, so maybe we're not the best looking people around. But according to a report by the Social Science Research Council's American Human Development Project initiative, the Washington region is doing pretty well for itself when it comes to life expectancy, education and income, topping a ranking of the ten largest American metro areas in those statistics. The long life expectancy of white D.C. residents (the longest among any group in the survey at 83.1 years), large numbers of people with college educations (about 47 percent of the D.C. region have at least a bachelor's degree) and the employment and income boost that the federal government provides to the District and her surrounding suburbs were the driving forces that landed the Washington metro area the top spot. Take that, you shallow Travel+Leisure readers! [Ed. Note: A few people have expressed that this post -- in its haste to grab a quick laugh on the back of yesterday's "attractiveness" rankings -- failed to note some pertinent statistics revealed in the report, like the fact that black D.C. residents have the lowest life expectancy of blacks in any state. I certainly didn't mean to trivialize these aspects of the study by not mentioning them, and apologize to anyone offended by their omission.] more ›

This is totally going to bring everyone down, I know, but: Travel+Leisure's readers have arbitrarily decided that we're a bunch of ugly people. (Not quite as unattractive as, say, Memphis, but still.) more ›

You might think that it'd take a little longer than a month and a half, give or take, to change your level of "gay-supportiveness." (It just doesn't seem like one of those wishy-washy things you can flip-flop on.) But apparently that's not the case -- as long as you can prove that you've got the record. more ›

This blogger approves of the Red Derby. It features good beer, some tasty eats and is generally far enough removed from the main drag that it has yet to be completely taken over by the masses. But calling it one of the most family friendly establishments in town sounds...off. But sure enough, the bar, located at 3718 14th Street NW, was named by Citysearch as the third-best "Family Friendly Restaurant" in the D.C. area. (A tip of the cap to Jonathan O'Connell for the link.) That's impressive, considering I've never even seen one child at the dive bar, let alone multiple families eating there at once -- even during weekend brunch. I mean, did they earn the ranking because the bar features numerous board games? (Which is awesome, don't get me wrong.) Well, from the looks of it, there may be some ballot-box shenanigans afoot -- nothing against the folks at Co Co Sala, but they're showing up in the top three of a lot more of these lists than we would have imagined. It's either that, or the popularity of mommy happy hours is even more unstoppable than we thought. more ›