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Ben Affleck's "Argo" tells a taut version of the events surrounding the Iranian hostage crisis. At the center of his mostly true thriller are six...

A most picturesque Grancy greybeard or white fringe tree recently had me completely mesmerized. If you are a gardener you may be thinking: Doesn?t it bloom in April? The answer… Click to Continue »

Only a few days remain in 2012, which likely means New Year’s Eve party plans have been made, resolutions pondered and sparkly dresses purchased. All that’s left besides securing a cab or an Uber is styling...

We've all seen drawings of impossible objects like M.C. Escher's Penrose stairs and ascending and descending walkway. However, after seeing the optical illusions of mathematics...

A 17-year old high school student in San Francisco has been suspended for a poem she wrote about the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook...

"Marvel's The Avengers," the year's top grossing movie, included one of the year's most breathtaking shots: A "no cut" sequence that shows the superhero supergroup...

Thousands of college students, teachers and activists rallied in New Delhi over the weekend, clashing with riot police near the India Gate. The protests were...

You know you've reached a certain level of, oh, let's call it maturity when "party music" becomes "gym music." We can't spend our entire lives...

Ginger, which has a boutique on Bethesda Row, has opened a new outpost in the Mosaic District. Through the first two weeks in January, take 40 to 50 percent off fall and holiday styles from designers including White + Wa...

Over the past few weeks we’ve partaken in making best-of lists and digging up some Lost Tracks (good music that was overlooked during the year). Consider this a hyper-specialized combination of the two: the top 10...

Although 2012 was a landmark year for music videos, where "Gangnam Style had one billion hits and bands like "Walk Off The Earth" got 142 million views for simply covering Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," it was a...

What is a Mummers Play, you ask, and what is mumming? Mumming is a word for disguising oneself, going door to door, and performing songs, dances and plays in neighbors' homes and in public places.

New Year's Eve has long been a celebration of kissing, so in honor of the annual event, HuffPost TV rounded up the best TV kisses...

Image courtesy of Shawn Dulaney Groves This is the year you are alive in. Before, you can't know the plagues that ravaged the villages,...

From the crowd's perspective, Capital Steez was on top of the world. So it's hard to make sense of what happened just 34 days after that night in November at SOB's. How could a 19-year-old promising star suddenly die?

Jenny Lewis and the rest of Rilo Kiley called it semi-quits in 2010, but a new post on the band's Facebook page suggests they're just...

This week's issue, "The Year In Photos," is a collection of images selected by our photo editors for the way they vividly, and often beautifully, tell the stories that defined 2012 -- the people, events, innovations, tri...

Begin at the middle. That’s how Homeric epics work. There’s no throat clearing, no preamble, no prologue. The poet invokes the muses, and then, BAM, there you are: in medias res, in the middle of things, BY...

As we alternate between the roles of spectator and performer, we owe each other inspired work before taking the stage, the kind that lays weaknesses bare, but follows with a view into our capacity to accomplish unreal th...

Throughout my whole life, whenever I was asked where I'm from, I used to respond, "You've probably never heard of it." All that changed the first morning after I had returned home from my most recent semester at Vanderbi...

"I had no choice, but then I became very serious about it very quickly. It was my life's vocation. When you have a vocation at seventeen, it's the same as being born very rich. "

MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- During stressful times as a combat medic in Afghanistan, Mason Sullivan found solace in Vivaldi. New Jersey native Nairobi Cruz was comforted...