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Los Angeles vintage and flea market shoppers probably recognize Mark Kologi by face, if not by name. His troughs of forgotten photographic memories have become a popular perusal destination for creatives at the weekly Me...

When I travel, my suitcase usually ends up within a half-pound of the 50lb weight limit, even on fairly short trips. I blame my heavy old laptop and all the local beer and coffee I like to bring for presents, but it coul...

Inspired by vintage tea towels and their humble stripes, Corrine from The Purl Bee set out to make her own version of the classic. She opted for a sturdy linen and cotton blend fabric, and chose a bright tomato red threa...

Ostrau doesn't go all the way to abstraction. To do so would remove the emotional connection she wants viewers to have with her source material. "I'm not a fully abstract painter," she explains: "I want people to feel th...

Q: The place that I rent has two bare light bulbs on the living room wall. I have placed a round wall clock (which I could replace with something else) in between the bulbs. I would love some ideas of what to do to cover...

When Bill Baxley assumed office as Alabama attorney general in 1971, he was determined to bring to justice the bombers who lit the dynamite beneath the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, killing four little black ...

The Unemployed is an interactive installation that visualizes world-wide unemployment by transforming statistics into animated figures who wander aimlessly across the screen. This project is...

For anyone who's ever watched a "Fast and the Furious" movie and thought, "You know, this would be better if it were a cartoon about snails," DreamWorks Animation presents: "Turbo." Wait, wait. That's a little unfair. Ye...

Sad if predictable results of an investigation into the death of Cory Monteith: The Coroners Service of British Columbia announced Tuesday that the "Glee" star succumbed to "mixed-drug toxicity involving heroin and alcoh...

While the world is on royal baby watch, TV networks are in their own special version of limbo - though they must have crews stationed in London at all times, it's getting increasingly more difficult to squeeze news out o...

From his amazing solo Pseudopodia (in which he tumbles, rolls forward and morphs his body onstage like a veritable human coil) to a recent Houdini-like escape from a small red gym bag where he was wrapped up, chained and...

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theater in residence at Howard Community College, is filling the vacant artistic director position with two people: Suzanne E. Beal and Joseph W. Ritsch. Beal is the board chair of the ...

Are your days as one of the coolest man on the planet perhaps numbered when a congressman starts raving about your new album. . . Only ONLY.. #JayZ @s_c_ can pull off a #hiphop ode to Kurt Cobain and REM @remhq. Not just...

With their customary assortment of gags, jabs, songs and jibes, the jokesters of Chicago's venerable Second City are back in town. And if the shivs they plunge into an array of soft targets don't always yield the level o...

Well, the tabloids certainly thought the royal baby would have made an appearance by now. Princess Kate, still a mom-to-be, is a popular cover girl this week, as spotted by our colleague Monica Hesse at a New York magazi...

Well, the tabloids certainly thought the royal baby would have made an appearance by now. Princess Kate, still a mom-to-be, is a popular cover girl this week, as spotted by our colleague Monica Hesse at a New York magazi...

Name: Sam Marts and Nick SistlerLocation: Bucktown, Chicago, IllinoisSize: 1,300 square feetYears lived in: 27 years; owned This is the house of Sam Marts, an architect, and Nick Sistler, a visul artist who works primari...

A beautiful city with a thriving and unique culture, Helsinki is a wonderful place for any traveler to visit. As a destination for design-loving folks, it's a downright mecca. The major city of the small country of Finla...

Lots of people think they're funny, but coaxing laughs out of a roomful of strangers separates the wannabes from the up-and-comers. In a fast and funny hour titled "Smellin' Up the Den!," the performers of Red Knight Pro...

Boys will be boys -- and therein lies Verona's misfortune. Such is the subtext in the gripping "Romeo and Juliet" brought to the Capital Fringe Festival by We Happy Few Productions. This propulsive, 90-minute, eight-acto...

-- Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter dining at Blue Duck Tavern Monday night. The co-hosts/combatants of CNN's upcoming revival of "Crossfire" had dinner at the tony downtown restaurant, flanked by Callista Gingrich and...

Flying off to faraway destinations can be exhilarating, but battling your internal clock in a different time zone can throw a wrench into travel plans. How to emerge out from under the wet blanket known as jetlag? Here a...