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CLAREMONT, Calif. — Marianne Boruch, a Purdue University creative writing teacher, has won this year's $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a California university announced Monday....

The mystery surrounding fundraising has led many people, usually board members, to ask: What makes a good fundraising executive?

This week, our mouths (and minds!) watered looking at a few delightful book cakes over at Shelf Life. Hungry as we are, we couldn’t resist...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a classic work about the burning of books. There have been dozens of different international editions, yet two websites...

Van Cliburn's playing was neither "musically incorrect, nor too careful, pedantic or cerebral. On the contrary, it was often exciting, sometimes daring and nearly always infused with that most elusive of qualities: trans...

The English musician Robyn Hitchcock, who turned 60 on March 3, says this in the press notes for his new album, Love From London: "Rock and roll is an old man's game now, so I'm staying in it."

James Franco is speaking out against Australia's ban on "I Want Your Love," the new gay-themed film directed by Travis Mathews. In a new video...

Q: Our 18-month-old is a table terror! While I’m preparing dinner, she walks around acting like she’s starving, but as soon as we sit her in her highchair she takes… Click to Continue »

Last week I may have guilted a few people into changing their vacation plans. They will now be visiting college campuses over spring break instead of basking on the beach. Click to Continue »

HuffPost Arts&Culture is celebrating Women's History Month with the help of our favorite artists -- female artists, of course. Every day of March we're rolling...

A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain. Click to Continue »

Your boss wants you to eat your broccoli, hit the treadmill and pledge you'll never puff on a cigarette. Click to Continue »

The next time orchestras are taken to task for being too European, too Caucasian, and too male-dominated, one might reference the new and growing generation of music directors who bring an inclusive sensibility and dimen...

Films like The Last Stand, and Stoker are a litmus test of international filmmakers; they are their first American films, and they use standard genre stories. If it these things feel too archaic and familiar, then you do...

Lenny Kravitz will not play Marvin Gaye in "Sexual Healing," an upcoming biopic. Deadline.com reports Jesse L. Martin will fill in for Kravitz, a surprising...

I've been hearing this music since the cradle, yet, when played right, it never fails to surprise me with its gems of tenderness. This evening, there were no such surprises. Pretty and attractive music, to be sure, but i...

It was hot and dusty in the high desert of Taos. The scraggly cemetery looked like the set of a spaghetti western. Mourners included biker dudes, Val Kilmer in a Stetson, and Jack Nicholson in moccasins. It was June 2010...

"The Following" has been renewed for a second season by Fox. The network has also ordered new seasons of "The Mindy Project," "New Girl" and...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- For decades, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I hung in a small garden gift shop on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Legend had...

Stay classy: According to THR, Harrison Ford has joined the cast of "Anchorman: The Legend Continues." Ford would play a veteran news anchor, "a la...

BERLIN -- After facing protests, a real estate developer has put on hold until at least mid-March plans to remove a piece of one of...

For 32 minutes on Wednesday morning, the world was set to say goodbye to rapper Gucci Mane and hello to rapper Guwop. Thanks to the...