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We would imagine that an artwork as famous as "Ecce Homo" aka "Beast Jesus", is a hard act to follow. But Cecilia Gimenez, the furry...

Awards season is well and truly underway, and before the annual insanity of Golden Globes nominations captures our attention tomorrow, the Screen Actors Guild, with...

The best comic written by a five-year-old ever is finally an animated Web series, and episode one of "Axe Cop" does not disappoint. Dinosaur gangs,...

The Screen Actors Guild 2013 nominations were announced on Wednesday morning -- hours after the nods actually leaked online via dummy pages on the SAG...

MILAN -- This Lohengrin is no knight in shining armor, confidently riding in on a swan to defend a beautiful maiden. No, the barefoot hero...

It is one of the great tragedies of adulthood that so many of us leave our artistic lives in adolescence. I often find myself in conversations with people who lament, "Oh, I used to play the violin," or, "Remember when w...

To accommodate our large Thanksgiving crowd, we swapped our living and dining room furniture. The switch turned out to be great for daily life too, so it stayed. However, it took a bit of tweaking to make our furniture n...

The holidays are all about family and tradition, and there are few traditions as universal as taking family photos. Whether trying to capture that perfect...

Here are the winners of The News & Observer's holiday cookie contest. More than 70 readers entered recipes in this inaugural contest. After much tasting, we picked four winners and… Click to Continue »

There are certain things that middle-aged men should probably steer clear of: buying a flashy sports car, dating a barely-legal hottie, succumbing to the allure...

hough they were often lumped into the Britpop category, Mansun's sound and message were very different from those of their contemporaries. The band drew their sound from new wave and even progressive rock.

A collection of rare, well-preserved Civil War photos were revealed this week at a live auction in Nashua, New Hampshire. A total of 97 items,...

BEIRUT -- Syrian filmmaker Joud Said was planning to attend the world premiere of his latest work at the Dubai International Film Festival when the...

Every year as a kid in the 1960s my family celebrated Christmas as a festive holiday. The funny part of this to some of my friends is that my family was Jewish. Why not enjoy all the holidays during December?

The eyes are windows to the soul -- at least, that's what the old adage tells us. One look at the work of photographer Suren...

This is the guy who kills, who decides when you die, and who controls the zombies -- a fate worse than death in Haiti. Plus, he looks and sounds scary with his slow, drawn-out, nasal speech pattern. He can be downright s...

San Francisco club The Rrazz Room recently announced that it would be closing after Hotel Nikko, the club's home since its 2008 opening, failed to...

Ravi Shankar was our Columbus. While one explorer came looking for India, the other took India to the world. Perhaps that's why it's only fitting, that though I grew up in India, the first time I saw him perform was not ...

"Weird Al" Yankovic has truly dared to be stupid-- by allowing himself to be photographed with a dead hooker on Twitter. The parody king, 53,...

As if we needed to tell you, gross-out desserts are all the rage these days. Chris Verraes, the force behind London-based chocolate and cake shop...

If you were to ease into a life of benign criminality, you could do worse than to land a guide like Edward Zanni. Edward, the hero of “How I Paid for College,” an amusing but unmemorable monologue-with-songs ...

Photographers: The contest is open to amateur photographers from The News & Observer?s readership area. Winners of the 2011 contest may not enter. Only one entry per person is allowed… Click to Continue »