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It's day three of Topshop's contest -- do you know who you're looking at yet?

By the looks — or rather, sound — of things, Clara’s family has fallen on hard times. Maybe her old man lost money on the railways. At any rate, these once-prosperous Washingtonians decided to forgo ...

Hommage is everything that a tribute album should be; a blend of striking originality and comforting familiarity that more than does justice to Marley's beloved songs.

Nothing quite like the end of a relationship to get your creative juices flowing, right? Because, as any writer might tell you, sitting down and ruminating over the failings of an emotional adventure is the best way to m...

As we commemorate World AIDS Day, it's timely to notice how three recent documentaries about the AIDS crisis have helped to focus attention on the raging epidemic that should never have happened -- a plague that has now ...

Janet Mayer/Splash News Online We didn’t label her “One to Watch” for nothing: This week Allison Williams proved that she’s no longer an up-and-comer to keep an eye on, but rather a fashion forc...

When will celebs learn not to mess with leather?

Marilyn: the body, the smile, the blonde...the skin. It's undeniable that Lady Monroe was much more than the sum of her (ahem) assets. The woman sparkled and glowed like almost no star before or after her. Of course, mos...

Louise Amstrup, despite being Danish-born, feels London through and through. Designed a bit like a feminine take on Christopher Kane-style prints, with the construction of Phoebe Philo, Amstrup's spring '13 collection se...

Maybe we’re still years away from flying in cars à la Back to the Future II, cooking in self-operating kitchens the likes of Pee Wee Herman, and more seriously, finding medical advances that will hopefully elim...

"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."

Who wasn't a little a lot pissy when the producers of Lost decided to have complete disdain for their audience, and left all of those quixotic plotlines unbuttoned? It's not like from the get-go the show was transparent ...

Everybody has a friend — make that six friends — who displays all the moustache-wearing, bacon-loving, wool-obsessed signs of being a full-fledged hipster…but would never admit it. Here, our own Conni...

"Why I'll never be the sultana of swoosh"

George Frideric Handel wrote a lot more than a certain piece played to death in the month of December. During his stay in Rome, from 1707 to 1710, he composed many Italian cantatas and oratorios, mostly on secular subjec...

Partway through Lar Lubovitch’s jagged and unsettling piece called “Crisis Variations,” one of the dancers flips his partner upside down and spins her on her head. This was one of the more lyrical mome...

Goldilocks is the perfect plant for creating the spiller effect in mixed containers. Click to Continue »

Tour seven homes in Chapel Hill’s Franklin-Rosemary Historic District during the upcoming Holiday House Tour sponsored by the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. Click to Continue »

Michelle Lyon was scouring eBay for vintage buttons when she noticed someone selling pieces of chenille, the tufted cotton used to make bedspreads and rugs in the mid-1900s. Click to Continue »

Q: Our two-level house has 12 steps to the second floor, running along a wall. There is no railing on the stairs. I think this is dangerous and I?d like… Click to Continue »

Trim your Christmas tree with these inspirational decorating ideas. Click to Continue »

For more than three decades, noncommercial station WPFW-FM in Washington has been a feisty voice of sometimes radical leftist politics — relentlessly anti-war, anti-corporate and anti-Republican. Next week, the st...