Guests gathered in March at the home of McLean businessman Michael Ansari and his wife, Karen, to honor Farah Pahlavi and celebrate the publication of her autobiography, “Enduring Love: My Life with ...

Jean Angulo, for 12 years the Ambassadors Ball shepherdess, has now stepped down, the first major change in this long running (28 years) event since its dress code changed from white-tie to black.

Throughout the course of history, collectors, merchants, kings, queens, sultans and maharajas have been dazzled and intrigued by precious gems. The late master jeweler, Harry Winston, known in the ...

A few days after her nomination as the next U.S. ambassador to Barbados Mary Ourisman trekked across the Key Bridge to deepest Rosslyn for her first diplomatic negotiation. In a high security office, ...

City dwellers may envision lazy summer afternoons in the country as long naps on the verandah, strolls in the garden and refreshing lemonade. Well … we do sip lemonade, sometimes even with a splash of ...

Chief of Protocol Donald Ensenat, former Chief of Protocol Marion ("Joe") Smoak and internationally known polo player Juan Salinas-Bentley put their heads together to revive the Chief of Protocol Cup ...

Art enthusiasts and fans of Caio Fonseca gathered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art for a preview of the acclaimed artist’s first solo presentation in a U.S. museum. Following the reception, Corcoran ...

How can you possibly improve upon the winning formula that the Capital Club has created with its Sinatra Soiree? Take a slow month in Washington (July), have your membership (100 males) send ...

S o u t h e r nC o m f o r t Kiawah Island, located approximately 20 miles from Charleston in South Carolina's coastal low country, has long been a golfer's haven. Five courses located on a 10-mile ...

Tony and Heather Podesta hosted an intimate gathering for New York-based artist Anna Gaskell, whose work is featured throughout the couple's D.C. home. Gaskell burst onto the art scene in the late ...

Three years ago my wife Pamela and I moved to Embassy Row to represent Bolivia's interests in the United States, and to raise the profile of an embassy that had for the previous twenty years fallen ...

Trotting horses, cracking whips and trumpeters' calls from antique carriage tops brought the Gilded Age back to Newport for a few memorable days in August during the Newport Preservation Society's ...