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Throwing a $2,000 camera and $1,500 laptop into a backpack to jostle in the overhead bin of an airplane is enough to make even the most pleasant flight a nerve-riddled nightmare. For travelers who pack more gear than soc...

Melissa Clark, author of The New York Times' "Good Appetite" column shares a Lebanese dish.

Name: Bridget & MattLocation: LaGrange, Illinois My fiance Matt & I purchased this suburban ranch back in November. Since then, we've slowly worked to make it feel like home. We believe that we can create a comfortable a...

Summer brain drain isn't just for children. Join the Washington Post's virtual summer book club and make sure you'll always have an enthralling new read, and energetic company to chat about it with -- courtesy of our Boo...

Summer brain drain isn't just for children. Join the Washington Post's virtual summer book club and make sure you'll always have an enthralling new read, and energetic company to chat about it with -- courtesy of our Boo...

There are many shows written about D.C., but very few written for the people who live here -- the ones who know, for instance, that Farragut Square doesn't look like an office park and there is no Meridian Park metro. .....

Just about every director of a major Southern Californian art museum has signed onto the following letter, which complains about the Los Angeles Times laying...

No matter which swimsuit girls choose to wear, a healthy body image helps them make better decisions.

Secretary of State John Kerry got a little emotional Wednesday while updating an audience on the condition of his sick wife. "Teresa is doing better under evaluation and we hope improving," he said as he opened an annual...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists say they have discovered some of the world's oldest known primitive writing, dating back about 5,000 years, in eastern China, and some...

Anyone getting lucky tonight can now channel Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" in more ways than one. The popular song's sexually charged themes only get sexier...

Jeffrey Tambor will make an appearance on "The Good Wife." In the Season 5 premiere (Sunday, Sept. 29) of the CBS series, the "Arrested Development"...

If you think modern Apple computers are expensive, prepare to have your mind blown. During a 16-day online auction that ended on Tuesday, Christie's sold...

After enduring the Great Recession, the public has shown a backlash against the $25 admission fee for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, which charges it as a "donation."

Summer Magic | This group photography show, curated by Shelley de Soto, features by Adam Ekberg, Nick Meek, Naida Osline, Katie Shapiro, Trujillo-Paumier, and Carlo Van de Roer. The works in Summer Magic convey the hypno...

Me removing the final planks of wood from the wall behind the pantry. Success! Name: Christine & PierreType of Project: Kitchen remodelLocation: Montreal, QuebecType of building: Ground floor apartment of a triplex, 1,10...

Auguste Renoir, The Boulders at l'Estaque, 1882, Boston Museum of Fine Arts I couldn't have been more than 10 or 12 when I first heard tales of the Midi, recounted by my fruit-growing father in Kentucky, about his sun-da...

LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas tourists can stroll through the Sin City of yesteryear at a museum full of the town's retired neon signs. The...

Don't have time to cook but still want an unforgettable dinner for one, two or more? How about serving spectacular chicken pot pies and finishing off the meal with decadent caramel brownies? The pot pies are made from sc...

In the hills surrounding the town of Brumadinho, in Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state once known for its gold and diamond mines, is Inhotim, an entirely different kind of art gallery. It's equal parts gallery and botanical...

The apocalypse will be budgeted. That is our trajectory, anyway: The bureaucratization of disaster. That which cannot be stopped will still be crammed, heroically, onto a spreadsheet. We like to tell ourselves that we're...

We've written quite a bit about color dipped furniture -- you know, the thing where you paint the legs of a chair (or desk, or dresser, or what have you) so it looks like it's wearing little furniture socks. But what if ...