WASHINGTON - The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel--Gov. Elliot Spitzer's choice for hookups with hookers-- is hardly known for hipness.

Yet late Tuesday and well into Wednesday, this 1920s grande dame of DC hostelry gave great lobby.

Everyone from John Legend and Cyndi Lauper to a happy claque of Bidens --sister, brother,...

WASHINGTON--Fur is back. Big time.

The high glam factor of Barack Obama's inauguration, and the city's brutal cold snap seem to have given many revelers license to come out of their pelt-packed, politically-incorrect closets swathed in the hides of creatures great and small.

At last night's inaugural ball hosted by...

WASHINGTON--As a sartorial signifier, nothing says Serious Political Woman or, for that matter, Political Wife, like an Ann Hand Liberty Eagle.

Since the early '90s, the red-eyed raptor clawing a faux pearl has, like a sorority pin on steroids, perched on the bodices of countless high-profile Republicans and Democrats, from...

WASHINGTON--Über-chef Alice Waters says "I never voted again" after her great friend, journalist-activist Bob Scheer, lost his 1966 anti-Vietnam primary challenge to the Democratic establishment's congressman. The man whose campaign Waters ran from her Bay Area apartment helped spawn a movement to end the war.

She channeled her own considerable...

The vibe in that human crush Friday night at...