In 1991, two decades after Susan Stamberg moved into her Chevy Chase home -- with its sun porch, stone fireplace and welcoming vestibule bench -- a neighborhood architecture buff informed her she ...

Did you ever hear the expression “kit and caboodle” and wonder what a caboodle was? I learned what it was in preschool, or at least a reasonable interpretation of it.When it comes to young children ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The expression “the whole kit and caboodle,” like its siblings “the whole enchilada” and “the ...

TORONTO -- Inside a converted warehouse in a desolate area just east of downtown, Abigail Breslin sits patiently with her mother, waiting for the film cameras to set their positions for the next take.

Witch cat Kit lives alone for a century, until broken-winged bat Caboodle tumbles through her window one Halloween, in Pignataro’s tender tribute to friendship. While Kit’s nonsense spells fail to ...