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Taste of InterContinental wine pairing meal rotates at Willard hotel in D.C.

Seven decades in business certainly calls for celebration. For the platinum anniversary of InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, the ritzy hospitality brand's District outpost has unveiled its "Taste of InterContinental" experience, a five-course meal being offered at the Willard InterContinental, located along the busy Pennsylvania Ave. corridor in Northwest -- not far from the White House.

November 6, 2016

Henry Rollins to perform Election Day special in Washington, D.C., hometown

Henry Rollins speaks loudly and forcefully. It is not so much that he wants you to agree with him as that he demands you hear. "I make a lot of notes and run the ideas by myself over and over. I often do it out loud on the treadmill or in the car so I can hear my voice actually say the words," Mr. Rollins said in an email sent to The Washington Times from the road of his current spoken-word tour, which comes to the District's Warner Theatre for an Election Day special Tuesday.

November 3, 2016
Mel Gibson poses for a photo at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Gibson directed a film about Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss in a new movie titled, "Hacksaw Ridge." (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

Mel Gibson returns to director’s chair with faith-based World War II drama ‘Hacksaw Ridge’

It's been a decade since Mel Gibson last went behind the camera as director for "Apocalypto." But Mr. Gibson always knew he would return to do what he does best -- and now he has, with the new World War II drama "Hacksaw Ridge." "I saw this 10 years before I decided to actually do it. I looked at it again, and there's tears on page 54, and I'm like 'what a great story,'" Mr. Gibson told The Washington Times of the film, opening in the District Thursday.

November 1, 2016
Clifton Collins Jr. in a scene from "Westworld." (Digital Trends)

‘Westworld’ actor Clifton Collins Jr. uses gun belt prop from grandfather, who acted with John Wayne

"Westworld" actor Clifton Collins Jr. has a special prop that helps him get into character on the HBO sci-fi Western, in which replicant humans help futuristic park patrons act out their fantasies. The 46-year-old veteran of over 100 films is a fourth-generation entertainer, and on the new show, he wears a gun belt and ammo bands that belonged to his grandfather, character actor Pedro Gonzalez Gonzales, who often played a sidekick to John Wayne in films like "Rio Bravo."

October 31, 2016
The Venus de Milo at the Louvre in Paris. (Eric Althoff/The Washington Times)

TRAVEL: Paris luxury day trip package from London offers grand taste of French capital

During a week in and around London, The Washington Times was graciously granted press tours thanks to Viator, a TripAdvisor tour-brokering firm that creates ambitious-yet-satisfying day trips. After tackling Windsor Castle, Bath and Stonehenge in my first outing, I boarded a train in London and headed south ... south ... south through England and then underneath the English Channel and into neighboring France for the Luxury Paris Day Trip package.

October 30, 2016

TRAVEL: Hunt Valley Inn offers value not far from D.C.

You don't need to go far out of the nation's capital to have a getaway. The Hunt Valley Inn, a Wyndham Grand property located but 61 miles north of the District, offers comfortable amenities and lodging at prices that will be reverse-sticker shock for capital-area residents.

October 30, 2016
When Donald Trump won the White House, he announced he would step down from day-to-day management of the Trump Organization, leaving operations to his children. But he did not divorce himself from it altogether and still shares in the revenue from the organization — including its hotels, food services and even its space. (The Washington Times/File)

Donald Trump officially opens Washington hotel

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump officially opened the Trump International Hotel, located less than a mile from the White House, Wednesday morning, less than two weeks before the election.

October 26, 2016
In this June 3, 2016 photo, Adele Drew watches the Chicago Cubs and The Arizona Diamondbacks in her room at Merkle-Knipprath Countryside nursing home in Clifton, Ill. Drew, didn't have much time for being a Cub fan while she and her husband, Meredith "Huck" Drew, were raising a family, but that changed in her sixties. Adele is 98, so she's endured about 40 years of heartbreak. And some happiness. And she isn't just a casual fan: Her son, Richard, gave her an official scorebook, and she keeps score of every game she can watch. (Mike Voss/The Daily Journal via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

D.C. nursing home sold over residents’ objections

The D.C. Superior Court ruled in favor Monday of The Washington House nursing facility being sold to Sidwell Friends School. According to The Washington Post, residents had hoped to block the $32.5 million sale, claiming the transaction violates a District law requiring a landlord to give tenants right of first refusal before a rental property is sold.

October 25, 2016
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TRAVEL: Roots music and country birthplace in Southwest Virginia offers musical education

Most people can name the major hot spots of American music: Nashville. Memphis. Austin. New York. Los Angeles. But just 400 miles from the nation's capital, where extreme southwestern Virginia kisses the hem of neighboring Tennessee, the Celtic music of Irish and Scottish immigrants melded with the gospel and blues sounds of black Southerners migrating up from the Delta -- resulting in a brand-new musical form that the world had heretofore never known.

October 24, 2016
Rolf Lassgard in "A Man Called Ove." (Music Box Films)

Swedish film ‘A Man Called Ove’ director Hannes Holm on influence of Bergman

Like Ingmar Bergman before him, Swedish director Hannes Holm is obsessed with death. Mr. Holm's newest film, "A Man Called Ove," based on a novel by Fredrik Backman, is about a stereotypically bitter old widower (Rolf Lassgard) who develops an unlikely friendship with his neighbor Parvaneh (Bahar Pars). Seeming to know his death is imminent, Ove begins to re-examine his life choices.

October 20, 2016
Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly in a scene from Mr. McGregor's film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel "American Pastoral." (Details)

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘American Pastoral’ film lacks the tragedy of Philip Roth’s novel

Philip Roth is among the most difficult of authors to adapt to the screen. "American Pastoral" is a very East Coast, New Jersey tale, steeped in Mr. Roth's examination of his Jewishness. It struck me as odd that Ewan McGregor, a Scotsman and a Gentile, would elect it for his directorial debut, though I will venture to believe that he saw in "American Pastoral" the universality of tragedy rather than any specific ethnic or cultural specificity. For this I do not fault him, nor his efforts in trying to translate the book for the big screen.

October 20, 2016

Cheese month in October as seasons change and new beers flow

Petaluma, California's Marin French Cheese, the oldest continually operating cheese company in America, is celebrating American Cheese Month with its seminal Breakfast Cheese, which the creamery has produced since its inception as the Thompson Brothers Creamery in 1865

October 20, 2016