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Our August Design Evening was fun and informative, with Susan Feldman and Alison Pincus of One Kings Lane as the evening's featured guests. We kicked things off with three pitch presentations from up-and-coming designers...

Jennifer Maravillas is collecting a piece of trash from every block in Brooklyn for a project she's called "71 Square Miles," named for the size of New York's most populous borough. "I'm interested in trash because it sh...

I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household, homeschooled under a religious curriculum and surrounded by oppressive homophobia and paranoia about the world. But the notion that something was wrong with me never fel...

President Harry Truman and Albert Einstein are talking for the first time in Seattle. Actually, it's a "what if" play The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein that opened last weekend at the Bathhouse Theat...

Name: RomanyLocation: Melbourne, Australia Our apartment is in the former Melbourne city Police Station building which was built in 1942. After being left vacant for about a decade, the building was redeveloped as apartm...

By now you've likely heard about molly -- the much buzzed about street name for the drug MDMA, which was recently linked to two deaths at the Electric Zoo festival held in New York City over Labor Day weekend. Molly, whi...

Lady Gaga's latest comeback has been a source of contention among fans and critics, and now the singer is speaking out against her detractors. Saying she feels persecuted in the media, Gaga told The Guardian, "I certainl...

our 10th annual Limerixicon contest for limericks that prominently feature words from one sliver of the dictionary, in this case "fa-." If you entered and got ink, entered and didn't get ink, or just thought of a fa- lim...

"Great Western Buffet", 2012, Oil on Panel, 28x47". This painting references Pieter Aertson's famous 'Butcher Stall', and presents a marketplace stocked and assembled by a butcher of a different sort. A confusion of imag...

TORONTO — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but he's very present at the Toronto International Film Festival. Opening this year's festival on Thursday is the premiere...

Katy Perry is one with the jungle in the new video for her song "Roar," which made its debut on Thursday. The singer brings the song's chorus to life in a pretty literal fashion, channeling the "eye of the tiger" as she ...

Alan Taylor is negotiating to direct the next "Terminator" film, this according to Variety. Taylor, an acclaimed television director on shows like "The Sopranos," "Mad Men," "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones," is b...

"Being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up. . . I will learn the lesson and move on to ...

I am always amazed by what one person can do. One idea, propelled by the determination of a true believer can literally change the world. When other people get on board it can grow exponentially and anything is possible....

Not even torrential downpour and a lightning storm could stop concert-goers from going hard last Friday for the first night of North Coast Music Festival 2013. After about a two hour delay, the gates to Union Park opened...

Who leaked that Olivia Pope was the President's mistress on "Scandal"? Viewers will find out almost immediately when the show returns. "When we come back in this first episode, you do hear who spilled the beans and why. ...

Writers are certainly not stereotyped as being the easiest people to work with, and it's no secret that many are outspoken about their political opinions. Combine this with the fact that many of them think they're the mo...

Kenneth Cole hasn't learned his lesson about using extremely serious current events to promote his brand. The designer posted the following tweet Thursday afternoon: "Boots on the ground" or not, let's not forget about s...

Kenneth Cole hasn’t learned his lesson about using extremely serious current events to promote his brand. The designer posted the following tweet Thursday afternoon: “Boots on the ground” or not, let’s not forget...

“It’s the black sheep of Spanish food,” Eva Alcaraz says of gazpacho, the cold tomato-based soup of southern Spain. “I don’t see it anywhere.”

Like this Room for Color 2013 contest entry? Favorite it below! Name: Kimberly Location: Saint Petersburg, FL Division: Cool Inspiration for my palette: I wanted a moody, dark-but-not-too-dark color that would pair well ...

Name: Darla Minnis & Andrew ChildsLocation: Greenpoint, BrooklynSize: 500 square feetYears lived in: 3 years; rented Darla & Andrew are both creatives pursuing their dreams; he's a web designer and she's a freelance acce...