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We must take back our streets from violence and fear. And what better opportunity than when we have all gathered together to celebrate beauty?

Scott Baio is dusting off Bob Loblaw for the new season of "Arrested Development." Baio stopped by HuffPost Live and discussed his return to the...

Today the ambitious online art database known as Artsy launched a preview of works to be displayed at this year's Armory Show in New York,...

Yannick Nézet-Séguinmost most appealing trait is the keen aggression he has, tempered by superb restraint. Add to that his youthful enthusiasm and openness, his will to succeed and the friendly and positive mood he ins...

Domestic violence is often shielded from public view. Usually, we only hear it muffled through walls or see it manifested in the faded yellow and...

We need a curriculum of big questions, examinations where children can talk, share and use the Internet, and new, peer assessment systems. In the networked age, we need schools, not structured like factories, but like cl...

This week I talked with director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan), whose new film, Musical Chairs, is nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. A fierce straight ally, Susan talked with me about the film's nomination...

As the Oscar-nominated film No continues to stir controversy in Chile, Chilean performance artists collaborated at the Encuentro in São Paulo.

Over the past thirty-four seasons my world has grown to enormous proportions of extraordinary depth and richness because of the places and people now as familiar to me as my own home, and in some cases, as my own family.

"The Walking Dead" Season 4 is more than a half year away, but it's already beginning to take shape. The hit AMC zombie drama will...

Chris Cooper has been cast as Norman Osborn -- a.k.a. Green Goblin -- in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," this according to THR. Cooper is the...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- For a time in Cold War America, Van Cliburn had all the trappings of a rock star: sold-out concerts, adoring, out-of-control...

Once, the mere act of a woman slamming the door on her marriage could be a seismic event in the theater. Today, tell someone that a play is about a woman who abruptly leaves her husband and adult daughter to live alone a...

Made of translucent stone, this beautiful canopic jar was meant to accompany a burial--and never to be seen again. "It seems to me that aesthetically...

Choreographer Robert Dekkers is on a mission -- a ballet-by-social-media mission.

Forget Google Glass. A new ebook has come out featuring Google Fingers. Or rather, the scanned fingers of Google Books employees, released under the guise...

It has taken almost a century for gender norms to shift enough for male engagement rings to find their place on store shelves.

Back in April of 2010, The Los Angeles Times reported that Robert Downey Jr., fresh off becoming a mega-star thanks to "Iron Man" and "Sherlock...

The visible and the invisible circle each other warily in the photographs of Kate MacDonnell and Noelle K. Tan, currently at Civilian Art Projects. Both artists are storytellers of a sort, but with a preference for the c...

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Steve Sanetti goes to work every day as the president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the lobbying association for the firearms industry, headquartered in a former bank building a few miles ...

The last time my family and I came back from Damascus was in 1990, we landed in New York and my sister, Layla, was so happy to be back in North America that she got on her hands and knees in the middle of JKF airport and...

A survey says that Britons are underestimating their alcohol consumption by around 40 percent, with a big gap between the booze people own up to drinking and the amount of...