The coronavirus pandemic has forced restaurants to rethink their seating arrangements, as social distancing requires some tables be left empty. The Inn at Little Washington is presenting a rather ...

Look around area restaurants today and you’ll see what seems to be plenty of unfilled seats. Though these chairs might seem empty, they actually are filled with respect for those who have served the ...

Fallen Soldiers Tables, or Missing Man Tables, are a growing tradition at restaurants. Here's why you can't sit there.

A group called the Live Events Coalition plans to set up 48 empty tables on the National Mall Wednesday evening to highlight how the coronavirus pandemic has pummeled its members’ businesses. Each of ...

They don’t have a name. They don’t have an affiliation. But they’re hard to miss, especially with a multi-yard Shabbat table on D.C.’s National Mall. A group of concerned D.C. citizens set up a table ...

Until two weeks ago, I hadn’t thought for a very long time about my first girlfriend, Elaine, and the summer of 1956 when I fell in love with her at Brooklyn’s Far Rockaway Beach. My wife, Alyn, and I ...

HONORING THE FALLEN. THERE ARE PLENTY OF BOOKS TO READ INSIDE FACE IN A BOOK BOOKSTORE, BUT TODAY THERE IS AN EXTRA DISPLAY CUSTOMERS CAN’T MISS IT. THEY’RE CURIOUS, BUT THEY’RE VERY QUIET AS THEY ...

(JTA) — The installation stretches across the entire plaza outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art — a table for 200, pristinely set for Shabbat yet searingly empty. The high chairs at a handful of seats, ...

It’s been five weeks, 42 days to be exact, since more than 240 hostages were taken from their homes in Israel by Hamas militants during the Oct. 7 attacks. For Omer Neutra’s family in Plainview, ...

Learning from Bryant Park: Revitalizing Cities, Towns and Public Spaces, by Andrew M. Manshel (Rutgers University Press, 293 pp. $29.95) Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City, by ...