The Qatar World Cup is sport’s Fyre Festival
Soccer without beer? What’s the point?
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
November 17, 2022
The best places to watch the Qatar World Cup in DC
Cockburn guides you through the bars in the District that will be serving from 8 a.m.
November 15, 2022
BREAKING: soccer is gay
Just in time for the Qatar World Cup!
November 14, 2022
Wining and walking in Turin and Genoa
Turin has an easy elegance that speaks to its role as a major center of Italian industry
With the vintage car enthusiasts at Lime Rock
A usually quiet town in Connecticut finds autos roaring around the racetrack
November 11, 2022
Will Biden really miss his student debt relief giveaway?
A federal judge pumped the brakes on the administration’s pie-in-the-sky promise
November 10, 2022
Feeling grumpy about good service
Is it too much to ask to be left alone while we eat and shop?
November 1, 2022
Serving up a Half Baked Harvest feast
Cooking for my family that night was typically chaotic
October 26, 2022
Steins and slogan tees at the Helen Oktoberfest
The Appalachian Alpine town offers a blissful escape from midterm attack ads
The Halloween costumes guaranteed to get you fired this year
From Zombie Queen Elizabeth to Candace ’n’ Kanye
The punishing and nostalgic life of a Washington NFL fan
Nowadays there are few football traditions worth cherishing in our nation’s capital
October 25, 2022
A Cuban Missile Crisis spent on the Atlantic
We’ve been lost at sea ever since
October 23, 2022
The buildings Richard Nickel championed
None were so dear to him as architect Louis Sullivan’s
October 22, 2022
My womanhood is not your costume
Biden entertains delusion by inviting a trans TikToker
October 20, 2022
In Ottawa, where junkies and technocrats collide
Canada’s liberal capital city has been besieged by drugs and disorder
The last roadside ice cream stands in America
They’re homages, but some get the retro vibe just right
Style blog rates Meghan Markle’s funeral ’fits
Meghan’s Mirror is cashing in on the late Queen Elizabeth II
October 19, 2022
You, too, can ban James Corden from your restaurant
The British TV host was declared Balthazar’s ‘most abusive customer’
October 18, 2022
Investigation: Catholic medical school pushes hormone therapy for minors
Georgetown lecture slides describe puberty blockers as ‘fully reversible’
Americans invade Cambridge
How will Princeton’s provost fare at the helm of one of Britain’s top universities?
October 14, 2022
Keto no-no
Perhaps the key to keto’s success is that it simply delays you from eating with prolonged meal prep
October 13, 2022
NYU sacks a professor because his class is too hard
Maitland Jones Jr. was an award-winning teacher of organic chemistry — then his students complained
October 11, 2022
Are you man enough to eat raw offal?
A new wave of offal-lovers is reviving an interest in organs
A seaplane out of Manhattan
In the awfulness of LaGuardia Airport, one terminal stands out as a reminder of better days
Trapping gators in the Everglades
You cast a ‘huge-ass hook’ into the water, snag the creature, then ‘pull like a bull’
Cake for a world turned upside down
When asked what was for dessert, I said, ‘Oh, it’s a topsy-turvy cake, just like this crazy world we live in now’
The postmodern horror of zucchini ‘apple’ crumble
Nothing is sacred anymore — not even traditional apple crumble
October 10, 2022
Youngkin leads the way in defending parents’ rights
‘Children don’t belong to the state’
October 6, 2022
What’s with all the cheating scandals in sports?
Even fishing isn’t safe
