Life Style News

Step out of the holiday frenzy by jumping into a new indoor pool at Raleigh’s new Buffaloe Road Aquatic Center. Click to Continue »

If all artists got up on their hind legs and started saying they won't perform unless everything is perfect, there would be very few concerts indeed. What do you think? Valiant protest against bad music, or vain posturin...

Are we dancers, acrobats, actors, circus artists or stunt people? The answer is yes, all of the above! We believe that in today's world this is what audiences are ready to see, we just don't have the right words to descr...

Did director Tom Hooper successfully adapt Les Misérables? Can Victor Hugo's marvelous tome (finally) carry over to the big screen? Other directors had relatively unsuccessfully tried before him, so has Hooper found t...

Kristen Stewart's sex scenes in "On the Road" are "fairly ridiculous" to watch as isolated moments, according to the actress. In a new interview with...

Holiday music certainly isn't for everyone. But who doesn't love a good Christmas parody album? Especially when it involves indie musicians like Beach House and...

Starring in "Snow White and the Huntsman" might have negatively impacted Kristen Stewart's personal life, but that won't stop the actress from reprising her role...

From a foul-mouthed sandwich maker to a late-blooming 71-year-old street performer, a Vancouver filmmaker has spent the past year capturing B.C.'s quirkiest characters in short...

During this Christmas Season, I could not help but notice that The New York Times' default metaphor for anything a critic finds objectionable in the arts is none other than Walt Disney. It is as if Uncle Walt was the ant...

2012 was a good year for music -- pretty much across the board. From Fiona to Kendrick, there was more than enough to go around....

Amber Altschul, 34, and Michael Misiaszek, 29, are patent examiners in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. They live in Alexandria. Wedding date: Nov. 10, 2012 Location: Stein Eriksen Lodge, Park City, Utah Read full a...

Peter Jackson owns the box office right now with "The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey," part one of his "Lord of the Rings" prelude. With the...

As Takoma Park’s beloved-but-broke Video Americain kicked off its final weeks by selling off its more than 30,000 DVDs to mournful buyers, film scholars and store owners Barry and Annie Solan chatted with The Wash...

As I recently descended into sleep after a Messiah concert I thought of all the ways innocence is lost, the moral imperatives that attend these melancholy moments, mostly benign, once in a ghastly while inescapably horri...

We refuse to believe that holiday cooking can't be healthy--and so does Amie Valpone, Manhattan-based culinary nutritionist and personal chef. She gave us genius ingredient swaps for making common holiday recipes healthi...

In 35 years at the Observer, the now-retired Lew Powell accumulated quite a bit of minutiae ? some of historical significance, some of the ?world?s largest two-headed cow? variety. While… Click to Continue »

Surprisingly, I've never hated Christmas music and I've always felt the more the merrier. That said, everyone must understand, there's only one Christmas album that matters. To my ears, all other Christmas albums sound l...

Really? Gangnam Style has hit one billion views? You guys aren’t bored of this yet? Because at this point, it’s not new people discovering equine-inspired rapper Psy and his “sexy laaaaaaadies,”...

For many African American families, the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without Kwanzaa, the week-long secular celebration based on African harvest traditions. The Anacostia Community Museum, which has been...

Len Cariou may well be the most persistently employed performer on the planet. He leaps fleetly from role to role, format to format and venue to venue -- theater, film, television, recordings, narration, voiceovers, docu...

LOS ANGELES — To play a mother torn from her husband and sons by the 2004 tsunami, Naomi Watts sure wasn't going Method. The British...

NEW YORK -- Tom Hooper, the director of intimate character studies like the Oscar-winning "The King's Speech," the HBO miniseries "John Adams" and the TV...