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Carrie Underwood is ready for some football. The 30-year-old singer has nabbed the honor of singing the theme to NBC's "Sunday Night Football" for the...

There seems to be a stigma that equates disability with 'non-functioning' or asexual. But it's just not true. The way in which we live may be different, but we are just as alive. So how do we go about making this topic l...

From the ruminative opening piano chords of the pianist David Virelles, we get the sense that we are being led to a peaceful place; a place where gorgeously created sounds linger in the deliberate suspension Stanko's hau...

Before I became a painter I was a failed poet. I love poetry with its mysterious use of words, bending, creating, smearing words to reveal emotions hidden or apparent. I was too uptight with words and I found my freedom ...

Antique Judaica is a micro-niche in the art and antique world. There are about 15 million Jews in the world, but only about 700 active collectors. One would think that with such a small market base, there would be almost...

TNT has ordered Michael Bay's "The Last Ship" for a 2014 premiere, the network announced Tuesday. The high concept drama, starring "Grey's Anatomy" alum Eric...

The first trailer for "Ender's Game" has arrived. Based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 novel of the same name, "Ender's Game" focuses on a post-alien...

Tailgaters, start your engines: designers Dan Novaes and Ethan Hou recently began taking pre-orders for the first ever flask shaped like an iPhone. The $34.95...

Ok, so maybe they aren't protesting the cicadas, but why the hell not, they protest everything else....

For nearly five years, photographer Mike Brodie documented the lives of freight train-hoppers -- nomadic kids who managed to freely navigate the United States by...

Taylor Swift's new music video is a major departure from the singer's recent work of dressing up like a hipster. The music video for "Highway...

Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted "I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, "Please...

LONDON -- When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by "King Kong" that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He...

If you are a female author, you are much more likely to get a package that suggests the book is of a lower perceived quality. We're the high fructose corn syrup of literature, even when our products are the same.

Mother's Day should be simple. Dad helps kids make homemade cards and serve mom breakfast in bed. Or everybody takes her to brunch and calls it a day.

Michelle Obama held her second book signing Tuesday morning at Politics & Prose, nearly a year after her gardening tome "American Grown" was released. Dressed in a black top with silver embellishment and a gold-green ski...

In this week's Pintful beer column, John Frank talks to Brewers Association President Charlie Papazian about North Carolina craft beer, and Mystery Brewing Co. opens its new tap room and...

The September announcement of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit "Punk: Chaos to Couture" raised several questions. Can punk be couture? Is it still punk if it's on exhibit in a museum or flaunted by Anna Wintour? ...

The September announcement of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit "Punk: Chaos to Couture" raised several questions. Can punk be couture? Is it still punk if it's on exhibit in a museum or flaunted by Anna Wintour? ...

Today, the use of design for personal propaganda has spread to such an extent that even ordinary people can produce their own virtual content, attracting thousands of viewers and gathering tens of thousands of devoted fo...

NEW YORK -- A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, performing a section of the playwright's "King Hedley II"...

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble is composed of particularly arresting dancers. In the first moments of their performance Saturday, it was clear that each is highly musical and capable of moving with utmost clarity an...