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The planned community of Columbia, Maryland, is trying to add urban-style density, without losing its suburban soul — or its founder's utopian ideals.

While traveling abroad with her husband in 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel—yes, that Jack Daniel—how to make Tennessee whiskey.

After nearly a year and a half of COVID-19, Americans are looking to prioritize living and playing over work in the post-pandemic age.

A favorite lunchtime destination of many urban office workers weathered the pandemic thanks to its digital savvy. It’s confident more people will be returning to their offices soon.

Learn how Sallie Krawcheck refused to let the wheel of Wall Street crush her career and how she is now fulfilling her mission to close the gender gap in investing.

Grocery delivery service raised $95 million from investors

Over 160 years ago, the legendary name in whiskey, Jack Daniel, learned a secret ingredient for whiskey from a formerly enslaved man named Nearest Green. Now, Fawn Weaver and one of Green’s descendants, Victoria Eady Butler, are telling Green’s story and starting a distillery to honor his legacy.

A women-run company led by investing titan Sallie Krawcheck, known as "the most powerful woman on Wall Street," is taking on the ambitious role of narrowing the gender wealth gap.

Survey the literature on workplace romances, and you’ll find broad consensus: It’s risky, messy and possibly unethical. But for Daniela Moreira and Andrew Dana, co-owners of the District’s Timber Pizza and the “Jew-ish” deli Call Your Mother...

At 450,000 square feet, The St. James offers enough to keep you busy all day.

Rob and Whit discuss what foods your pets will enjoy as well as what to avoid feeding them.

A single pedicure typically uses somewhere between 13 and 18 gallons of water. To put that into perspective, one flush of a toilet is 1.6 gallons of water. The average shower is about 17 gallons.

From her morning routine to how she runs her female-focused financial platform.

A dinner “pawty” for canine influencers at the Wilson featured human-grade food for dogs and Brussels-sprout tacos for their owners.

The profitable salad chain Sweetgreen was on track to IPO. So why did its founders decide to pivot to tech?

This one showcases a female ringmaster and the ‘strongest mom in the world.’

Despite the sport's declining popularity and aging tracks, and new opportunities to gamble, Belinda Stronach is betting that her company can remake horseracing.

A federal agency more commonly associated with its Smokey Bear mascot and tips on preventing forest fires thinks it may have part of the solution in big cities' fight on crime: urban wood.

The pastry chef and David Chang protégé now runs a profitable, 12-location national business, where she oversees more than 200 employees.

Tossed-salad star Sweetgreen gives Inc. an exclusive, in-depth look at its secret weapon: the small farms and food suppliers that fill its hip, healthy bowls.

A struggling waterfront along the Potomac River will morph into a long-awaited commercial and residential destination known as when it opens next month.

Is the fanciest new pet hotel in town plush enough for a human guest? Our intrepid correspondent checked in to find out.

Keith Clemson, a psychotherapist focused on couples therapy in Washington, worries about his dog when he goes away. A chow chow, Ripley looks like a fluffy bear and can be sweet, but he can also be stubborn and a bit mean...

The flowers will be in bloom, the sun (God willing) will be shining, and more than 100,000 fans will enjoy the Preakness, the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Inside the Owner’s Chalet...

Unilever, the giant food and consumer product company, is buying Sir Kensington’s, a small condiment maker that has muscled its way on to grocery store shelves long thought impervious to disruption.

How to turn a collection of cult-status salad joints into a national fast-food chain? First you have to fix the supply chain.

Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery in Champaign makes cheese from its herd of 75 milking goats. The 13-year-old organic farm is the primary regional supplier of goat cheese for salad chain Sweetgreen, which opens its first Chicago location...

Patrons of Sweetgreen are very particular about their salads. When the company recently removed bacon and sriracha from the menu, customers took to social media to complain.

Vegans are, by necessity, a creative bunch. They grind almonds for milk and spin soy into cheese, ice cream and even some passable meat substitutes. But replacing the egg, in particular the egg white, has proved especially tricky.

Eric Hilton has backed a string of restaurants and bars that have been credited with helping transform pockets of the city’s night life.