A play at Anacostia Playhouse explores artistic collaboration across racial divides and auditioning for Shakespeare while black.

Area food banks and charities are stepping up to provide food, rent assistance and other emergency support services to federal employees and contractors living without paychecks. But they can't do it alone.

Washington's fitness scene has a bad rap of cost-prohibitive gyms and homogenous classes.

Forget resolutions. What does the data say about how many people stick with their new fitness regimen? And how can you pick the right gym for you?

We get an update on how federal workers in the Washington region are coping with day 24 of the government shutdown -- and talk #snurlough.

Can Sen. Chris Van Hollen and other Congressional Democrats get federal employees back to work? And what does Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Mark Herring think is at stake this legislative session?