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Photo Credit If you saw the last post on Personal Vision Statements, then you know what a good idea it is to make one for yourself. In case you missed the last post, a personal vision statement is a phrase that you write...

Cameron Leigh Meek of Raleigh is to be married to David Randel Rowley, Jr., also of Raleigh. Miss Meek is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harold Guyton...

Kathryn Pavia and Wesley Brummer of Raleigh were married April 27, 2013 at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh. The Reverand Lisa Yebuh officiated at the double-ring ceremony. A...

The 2013 Radio Disney Awards were all about bright colors and big stars, featuring appearances from Selena Gomez, Cody Simpson and Bridgit Mendler, among others....

Photo Credit It's finally -- and thankfully -- spring time! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you are almost done with the school year. Now that exam week has arrived (or, for some of you, is a recent, hori...

The model finds out (the hard way) how delicate designer dresses can be before the White House Correspondents Dinner

Are refillable mascaras the new standard in makeup? If Danish-born makeup artist Kirsten Kjaer Weis has anything to say about it, then yes. Weis' eponymous line has always featured gorgeous organic makeup housed in stunn...

Inspired by the footwear of native New Mexicans, Yuketen's Modello 4 Santa Fe is a unique slip-on deck shoe for Spring/Summer 2013. As always, materials and construction are top-notch, with premium leather and suede uppe...

Realism has been around in the art realm for centuries, but when someone does it justice, it's always worth pointing out. This is the case for Leah Giberson's hyperrealistic paintings of modern suburban life. Regardless ...

Not every duet is an "intimate" one. Pianist Kenny Barron and bassist Dave Holland, two of the finest musicians alive -- Barron is an NEA Jazz Master; Holland should be one -- have worked together for four decades. But t...

So much of human culture has vanished from the world, will surely vanish still, will fall away as if it never existed. In the long view of time, our voices and our footprints are not as durable as we may think.

Tickets to see Dallas Black Dance Theatre perform at the Publick Playhouse are a fraction of what it costs to see Alvin Ailey at the Kennedy Center, but never assume this Texas-based troupe offers a fraction of the talen...

FINALE WATCH: "Bones" (Fox at 8). Status: Renewed for Season 9. Thanks to the work done by an evil tech genius, the Jeffersonian team realizes that a series of murders has links to some FBI agents close to Booth. Meanwhi...

Earlier today, at the British Vogue Festival, Alber Elbaz became the latest person to share his thoughts on Hedi Slimane's work for Saint Laurent. The Lanvin designer told Simon Burstein, CEO of London boutique Browns: "...

Last summer, as I was riding home on BART from a performance at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, an aspiring young playwright from Los Angeles who had noticed the press kit in my hands started to chat me up. After inquiri...

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The Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts created Poetry Out Loud in 2005 to help spread a stronger appreciation for poetry in America's schools.

Barbra Streisand may have turned 71 this past week but she outshone much younger stars at last night's Vanity Fair-Bloomberg post-White House Correspondents Dinner party....

The parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have abandoned plans to travel to the United States to bury one son and help in the defense of the other, their father told Reuters today in an interview in southern Ru...

The annual open house for the N.C. State College of Veterinary Medicine gives the public a rare opportunity to get a first-hand look at the work being done at one...

Former U.S. Senate candidate and Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell once famously claimed, "I'm not a witch." Still, we couldn't help but notice the resemblance...

The term "alternative medicine" is thrown around pretty loosely nowadays, used to describe anything outside the realms of conventional, Western medicine. But, there are so many different types of alternative therapies ou...