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Longreads - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com The website that Washington lives by. Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:12:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://dev.w-cm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Longreads - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com 32 32 https://dev.w-cm.com/2023/12/07/restaurants-vs-diners-psychedelic-therapy-and-the-spy-house-next-door-washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2023/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=restaurants-vs-diners-psychedelic-therapy-and-the-spy-house-next-door-washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2023 https://dev.w-cm.com/2023/12/07/restaurants-vs-diners-psychedelic-therapy-and-the-spy-house-next-door-washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2023/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:00:16 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1666704   Look, we get it. It’s the holiday season. You’re already swamped. There are gifts to buy and parties to attend and a month’s worth of work to cram into what amounts to two-and-a-half weeks before everyone starts setting their inboxes to auto-reply. Things are busy. Who has time to read a bunch of magazine […]

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https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/12/29/washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2022 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:00:15 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1615672 Okay, sure: you could go outside and take advantage of our much less frightful, somewhat more delightful holiday weekend weather. (If you do, we have you covered). But you could also choose to kick back, grab a drink, leave the year-end hustle and bustle to others, and immerse yourself in the following feature stories. And […]

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Washingtonian’s Best Longreads of 2021 https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/12/30/washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2021 Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:00:41 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1561180 This year ended with a plot twist, eh? Time to hunker down, pour yourself a cup of tea (or something stronger), and let any one of these longreads transport you to a headspace that is not America in the last week of a second pandemic year. Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like […]

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Washingtonian’s Best Longreads of 2020 https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/12/29/washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=washingtonians-best-longreads-of-2020 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:00:28 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1365393 Oh, 2020. For everyone in Washington who needed an escape from you, we had many a longread to share. And for everyone who wanted an inside look at how others were managing, we had that covered, too. Here are some of our favorites, in no particular order, from one all-too-memorable year. Cheating Spouses, Secret Addictions […]

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3 Captivating Longreads for a Corona-Free Weekend https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/05/09/3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-8 Sat, 09 May 2020 11:00:01 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1112249 Meet an Amazing Blind Man Raising Blind Triplets Ollie Cantos was a workaholic lawyer—the highest-ranking blind person in the federal government. Then along came Steven, Leo, and Nick: blind triplets who needed a dad. What happened next changed their lives. Sherri Dalphonse delivered this uplifting story in 2016, but we got to thinking about the […]

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3 Captivating Longreads for a Corona-Free Weekend https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/05/02/3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-7 Sat, 02 May 2020 12:00:28 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1103197 A Murder on the Rappahannock River A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman named Emerson Stevens went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and mother of two. Now, a reexamination of the case by a hard-charging UVA lawyer has turned up troubling questions. Did police have the wrong […]

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3 Captivating Longreads for a Corona-Free Weekend https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/04/25/3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-6/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-6 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:00:41 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1089100 Yep, for this week’s edition of Covid-free reads, our minds are wandering off to West Virginia. Here goes: The Billionaire and the Flood: How a Tragedy Transformed the Greenbrier Resort and the Blue-Collar Town that Depended on It In 2016, a historic flood lashed West Virginia, killing 23 people and crumpling homes. It also exposed […]

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3 Captivating Longreads for a Corona-Free Weekend https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/04/18/3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-5 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:00:36 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1088680 Looking for stories to take your mind off constant corona coverage? At your service. What It’s Like to Become the Voice of Your Generation—at Age 12 Gen Z’er Naomi Wadler was the breakout star of the 2018 March for Our Lives. She and her family never imagined the spectacular series of events that came next. […]

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3 Captivating Longreads for a Corona-Free Weekend https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/04/11/3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-4 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 12:00:49 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1081189 Looking for stories to take your mind off constant corona coverage? At your service. I Was All Set to Become the Most Popular Guy in the Cancer Ward. Then I met my nemesis: Ben. The Naval Academy’s War with a Professor Who Sends Shirtless Pics, Offends Women and Minorities—and Somehow Came Out On Top From […]

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3 Captivating Longreads for a Corona-Free Weekend https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/04/04/3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-captivating-longreads-for-a-corona-free-weekend-3 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 12:00:32 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1074715 Looking for stories to take your mind off constant corona coverage? At your service. “It Was ‘The Office’ Does Major League Baseball”: An Oral History of the Nats’ First Year Ryan Zimmerman, Chad Cordero, Jim Bowden, the first Screech, and others remember the behind-the-scenes bloopers, mishaps, and live-to-tell-it tales from when baseball came back to […]

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