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STOCKHOLM.- Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her colourful, voluptuous goddesses, her shooting paintings and the spectacular exhibition SHE - A Cathedral at...

Jenna Fischer visited the "Late Show" where she talked about the upcoming end of her show, "The Office." She told David Letterman that, as a...

The Detroit Jazz Festival organizers announced the lineup for the annual weekend on the waterfront, and it's a doozy. From Aug. 30 to Sept. 2,...

LONDON -- A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction....

Here's the issue: because research is too boring and too difficult to read, very few people actually read it. The problem is that much of the research we're not reading is impacting us, or could.

"I need a little respect and dignity in my life!" screams out a Finnish punk rocker with cerebral palsy. This line could be the refrain of many of the films that screened at the recent Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festi...

Also in The Washington Post: Mark Wahlberg is looking to shed his title as Hollywood's most successful high school drop-out. The movie star/producer has enrolled in an online program to complete his credits, some 23 or s...

No thinking: that's the empty mind-set of the swinging '60s bedroom farce "Boeing Boeing," even though this peppy French artifact is fundamentally a math problem. Follow the numbers. The play is about a single jaunty pla...

Well, here's a actual newsmaker headed to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner: Kevin Ware. The 20-year-old Louisville sophomore, who spectacularly shattered his leg on live TV during the NCAA Tournament ga...

Next month's dinner with chef Thomas Keller at Fearrington House has a waiting list of more than 100 guests.

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Brief news from elsewhere: President Obama tells the "Today" show about his patented body-art-preventative tactic: "What we've said to the girls is, 'If you guys ever decided you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and ...

NEW YORK -- Alexandria, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn., are cities for readers, if not always the kinds of books your parents wanted you to read....

PARIS -- The Cannes Film Festival announced its most Hollywood-heavy jury lineup in years Wednesday, with a list that includes Oscar winners Nicole Kidman, Christoph...

MIAMI -- She was almost like a member of the family. An employee, but almost one of them. For three years, Maria Magdalena Romero had tended to the suburban Miami home of Jeb and Columba Bush, had helped to raise their t...

Whether it's shouting the lyrics to "Baby Got Back" for the millionth time at a party or recalling the somberness of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" with...

PARIS -- An Italian artist has decorated the Louvre museum's iconic glass pyramid for the first time with a message about capitalism. Michelangelo Pistoletto, one...

Important word nerd news: In its third annual ranking of the Most Well-Read Cities in our great nation, Amazon has crowned Alexandria, Virginia, as #1 for the second year in a row. To celebrate, perhaps the Alexandrians ...

Important word nerd news: In its third annual ranking of the Most Well-Read Cities in our great nation, Amazon has crowned Alexandria, Virginia, as #1 for the second year in a row. To celebrate, perhaps the Alexandrians ...

My Place (2108 S. Main St.; 919-761-5009; myplacewakeforest.com) brings a number of features which should guarantee it an eager welcome in Wake Forest.

Two favored "Star Trek" characters take center stage in these new "Star Trek Into Darkness" character posters, debuting exclusively here at HuffPost Entertainment and on...

There's now officially no excuse for black-thumb gardeners.