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I think I’ve figured out the most flawless way to sort your Hogwarts House and it all has to do with how you handle relationships—in...

My choices include a beautiful coffee table tome, a local LA galley zine and three museum exhibition catalogs.

With the number of road races on pace for an all-time high, Raleigh officials will consider new steps to move the events away from center-city neighborhoods where people complain about… Click to Continue »

It's not easy to bring the multitude of choices in movement, costume, lighting and set into harmony with equally complex choices in melody, texture and tone, but when it's done really well, it's a very different kind of ...

Sundance Institute announced today 19 members of five juries awarding prizes at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City,...

Samuel L. Jackson, otherwise known as Nick Fury, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Marvel movie universe, hasn't heard from Joss Whedon about the "S.H.I.E.L.D."...

The musical Les Misérables has finally made it to the screen, with even more pomp and circumstance than the stage. And, I am happy to report, just as much glory.

Days after Kristen Stewart confirmed that she will be appearing in the film "Focus," Ben Affleck is reportedly dropping out of it. According to Variety,...

The first trailer for Michael Bay's "Pain and Gain" makes the film look like an amalgam of "Bad Boys," "Out of Sight," "Boogie Nights" and...

Architecture is, in a sense, a celebration of history. Designers and architects are heavily influenced by the past; whether or not they admit it is...

If Instagram was going to make big changes to its service, as many feared, I at least wanted to know what else was out there. As I began using Flickr's new mobile app, I immediately realized: This can do everything Insta...

The Library of Congress’s annual Stradivari concert provides a rare opportunity to hear these iconic instruments played together by a professional quartet. These instruments infuse even the quietest playing with a...

The father in Savyon Liebrecht’s “Apples From the Desert” is characterized in brief, efficient strokes, and he is a villain. Tuesday’s audience at Theater J groaned in dismay at an early, casual...

HBO is taking a page from Broadway. The premium cable network is adapting Stick Fly, the Broadway drama about the secrets of prejudice, hypocrisy and...

Like all tweens in the '70s, Judd Apatow was the world's biggest Steve Martin fan. Until the fateful day that Martin declined to give him...

Ambivalent subtleties and poetic analogies may be domain to both music and language, but flat statements that can either be true or false are native to the word alone.

The film was not only the perfect remedy for my blues, but I came out of the theater convinced that I had just seen the truest, most honest, and thus, best Christmas movie ever made -- an opinion I have never swayed from...

Bonobos, which sells tailored men’s fashions online, will open a brick-and-mortar 1,000-square-foot Guideshop site in Georgetown late January. In the meantime, shop Bonobos’s holiday pop-up in Bethesda, whe...

The New York Public Library's flagship building on Fifth Avenue is undergoing a $300 million renovation, courtesy of the London-based architect Foster + Partners. Today,...

One of the benefits of life in Washington is a surfeit of talented brass players, employed by the area’s orchestras and military service bands. Many talented musicians from the Army and Marine bands, and some from...

Since the holidays began, we’ve been pretty hard on the American shopper. “You don’t need a Christmas tree for every room in your house!” we’ve barked. But that’s because you need ...

© Guy Laliberté - Algeria, Sahara Dessert, 2009 Print on cotton paper - 30 x 45 inches Edition of 15 The fire-eating accordion-player who...