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Life starts early in the Verona of “Romeo and Juliet,” which the San Francisco Ballet launched Thursday at the Kennedy Center Opera House. As dawn rises over the Italian city’s busy public square, even...

At age 70, R&B legend Aretha Franklin remains a musical force — still touring and working with director Taylor Hackford on her upcoming biopic. Although there have been recent questions about her health, the Queen...

Q: I use a 24-foot extension ladder to clean my rain gutters and do other high work on my house. I have never felt really safe on it and recently… Click to Continue »

Flowering kale and cabbage are favorite cool-season plants, but I recently saw them from a new perspective ? backlit by the late afternoon sun. I was amazed at the brilliant… Click to Continue »

Stefanie Garcia, 29, is an executive assistant at a health-care consulting firm. Aaron Robbins Wiseman, 30, is a compliance analyst at the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards. They live in Mount Pleasant. Read...

In 2001, Mical Owens was increasingly sure her crush on Erik Ylitalo was mutual. For two months she’d been working as an administrative assistant in the real estate firm where he was a broker. He smiled whenever h...

It doesn't have to be a dark and stormy night outside for a critic to wonder if reviewing the evening's performance will be a dark and dirty job. All kinds of questions run through a critic's mind as he sits through a le...

Passion, jealousy, vengeance, and regicide returned to the Metropolitan Opera stage Friday night in a revival of La Clemenza di Tito that boasts a fine cast led by a superb Elina Garanca, who captures all the pathos and ...

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the holiday than with the season's most iconic craft -- the hand turkey....

YANGON, Myanmar -- When Arker Kyaw heard President Barack Obama was coming to Myanmar, he gathered 15 cans of spray paint and headed for a...

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If you?ve hosted any holiday meals at your house, you know how stressful it can be. And while hosting tips usually center on making guests comfortable, it?s the host who… Click to Continue »

Don Haynie can take a lot of little nothings and turn them into a big something. Give the floral designer sticks from the yard or woods, a small clay pot… Click to Continue »

I have a friend who claims Thanksgiving is his favorite holiday. There are no gifts to wrap, no costumes to make, no eggs to dye ? just time to sit… Click to Continue »

Horseradish is a prolific perennial herb that adapts to all types of soil. But it can become overbearing, so I highly recommend growing it in containers. Click to Continue »

"We grew 95 percent of the food we ate," Will Allen said of the Maryland farm where he grew up. Click to Continue »

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A person moves toward poetry out of need, says Robert Bly, when religious instruction perhaps fails to resonate deeply enough, or when trying to get in touch with one's senses.

Thinking of those dreaded auditions, I thought I might share some tales from the trade. It also might encourage those who may feel rejected or that they didn't do so well well, since I still was able to make a great care...

One way to get to know a person very well - without talking with them - is to draw with them. I got to know David Humphrey in this way when we became part of the same figure-drawing group and I quickly noticed something ...

The captivating Karen Lugo and Company opened GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Fuego Flamenco VIII on Thursday. Since leaving her native Guadalajara, Mexico, 10 years ago, Lugo has acquired a reputation as a risk-taker, bu...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fans of fictional super spy James Bond rely on the durable film franchise for must-have elements, such as jaw-dropping stunts, great clothes, sultry women - and villains who are drop-dead evil.