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10 Ways to (Stylishly) Childproof a Fireplace
Apartment Therapy - 1 Oct 2013 19:00
It's happened: my five-month-old has started rocking on her hands and knees and I'm well aware of the next logical step -- crawling. It's just about time to start baby-proofing the house. I've done it before so it should...
Miley Cyrus Strikes Again, or the Destruction of the Pendulum
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 18:26
Few people in the United States are oblivious to the Miley Cyrus VMA twerking performance that took place on August 25. Her mild provocation proved effective in scandalizing many who have not yet come to terms with the f...
Competition heats up in the Triangle burger market
News Observer - 1 Oct 2013 16:26
In the mood for a burger? You've got more - and more varied - options than ever. The nationwide gourmet burger trend, given a boost in North Carolina last year…
Rosario Dawson Wasn't Attached To 'Kids' Character: 'I Didn't Even Have Sex Until I Was 20' (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 23:58R.I.P., Marcella Hazan, who judged you for your garlic overuse
Washington Post - 1 Oct 2013 23:54
"I never cook with sun-dried tomato. That's a pickle!"
Gregory Euclide on the ImageBlog
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 23:50A Potemkin Village for an Olympic Home
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 23:34Auto-reply individualism: How many ways can you say 'shutdown'?
Washington Post - 1 Oct 2013 23:18
There are 800,000 federal workers furloughed, and almost as many ways to write an out-of-office e-mail auto reply. The Post's Ryan Kellett compiled these edited selections of e-mail responses from workers at the Departme...
Man Paints Over Not One, But Two Banksy Murals In Australia
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 23:1282nd & Fifth: BRICKS by Sarah B. Graff
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:57
These lions are made of individual bricks of clay, a formless material that through shaping, molding, and firing, became a beautiful, perfected thing. "It always had this possibility to come alive in a very real sense," ...
82nd & Fifth: DOOMED by Sabine Rewald
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:55
Otto Dix strove to capture the essence of a person. For example, the green, black, and brown in this work--the colors of money--reflect the sitter's profession. "He had such a clinical, nearly satirist viewpoint," says c...
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Jailed Pussy Riot Member, Ends Hunger Strike
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:42Francis Ford Coppola Strikes Again -- This Time At 'The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson' (PHOTOS)
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:41'Two-Character Play' benefits from actors' shared history
Washington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:28
Lee Mikeska Gardner and David Bryan Jackson knew a lot about each other before joining -- or, more accurately, becoming -- the cast of "The Two-Character Play" at Spooky Action Theater. They were in a relationship that e...
Carrie Brownstein Interviews Pearl Jam, Band Reveals Current Inspirations
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:21Enchilada soup is easy in a slow cooker
News Observer - 1 Oct 2013 22:12
Chicken enchilada soup is a thicker, richer cousin of chicken tortilla soup. It's almost as if you are eating an actual enchilada in a bowl with a spoon.
Greek prime minister shut out of art exhibit opening reception by shutdown
Washington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:10
The Greek delegation is not pleased. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in Washington for official business, planned to attend to the opening reception on Wednesday of "Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collecti...
The Last of the Unjust and Its Auteur Are Self-Referential
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:09
When you have single-handedly created an alternative name for the Holocaust, Shoah, based on your nearly ten-hour-long documentary interviewing survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders to the extermination camps in Poland...
Novelists sound off on what ails our health-care debate
Washington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:05
As the federal government grinds to a close today over the health-care debate, I wish every member of Congress would read Lionel Shriver's scathing story about the cruelty of American health insurance. "So Much for That"...
Novelists sound off on what ails our health-care debate
Washington Post - 1 Oct 2013 22:03
As the federal government grinds to a close today over the health-care debate, I wish every member of Congress would read Lionel Shriver’s scathing story about the cruelty of American health insurance. “So Much for T...
The Mystical John Zorn
The Huffington Post - 1 Oct 2013 21:26
You may have noticed John Zorn's birthday celebrations around town and around the country. There are still a few events pending next week and you can find out the details at ZornAt60. I was asked to write a few words for...