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Do plants really grow stronger and healthier when spoken to? That's just what a new social experiment from advertising agency Carmichael Lynch and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is putting to the test. Called "T...

The Knights -- a hip, collaborative and innovative Brooklyn-based chamber orchestra -- made an auspicious Washington debut Monday and Tuesday at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum. Founded by two brothers, veterans of Yo-Yo Ma's ...

It's #tbt -- Throwback Tuesday -- for Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, who took to Instagram to post a vintage shot of TLC filming their iconic 1995 video for "Waterfalls." The photo is lovably '90s, with the girl group seen in t...

For the past six years I have directed a festival of 20/21st century music at the University of Arizona. Any festival worthy of the name has a vision or reason for being. The premise of our model, The Music + Festival, i...

For those unfamiliar with World Order, they are a unique Japanese band created in 2009 by former mixed martial artist, Genki Sudo, that incorporate music, slow-motion and classy suits into a pure blend of auditory and vi...

Given the shutdown in Washington, we expected some scathing commentary at the PEN/Faulkner gala Monday. But no, writers at the 25th anniversary dinner steered clear of politics -- unlike 2008, when Terry McMillan tore in...

Reverberation #8 Medium: Graphite, ink, watercolor, and collage on paper Dimensions: 26" x 26" Date: 2013 This piece was recently on view in the group exhibition "Journey Forth: Contemporary Landscape Between Technology ...

The critics are divided on Miley Cyrus' "Bangerz." Most detractors lambast the album's shape-shifting tones, while others are going after its lyrics. What else is there to do but fashion a quiz that puts the lyrics to a ...

As she was breaking up with me, a woman once told me she loved me. "Why?" I asked. "Because I know you." In the moment, that felt like the worst reason I could imagine. I wanted it to be about some singular quality I had...

"Kids are perfect and our job is to not screw them up." I heard this from a parent once, a statement that in all honesty I haven't thought about much since. Maybe because I am not a parent, maybe because my years as a ki...

Shia LaBeouf might have dropped acid for his starring role in "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," but he also falls hard for Gabi Banyai, played by Evan Rachel Wood. The film follows LaBeouf's character on his j...

I love indoor plants, and I love finding interesting vessels to put them in. Currently geometric hanging planters have been catching my eye. Here are 5 of my favorites.

Are you a BH&G reader? Keep an eye out for Maxwell's new "Apartment Therapist" column. He will offer decorating, space-saving and lifestyle tips to help Better Homes and Gardens readers solve everyday challenges and crea...

Circus Day! And those who have tried, say that it is hopeless to try to tell it - the multifarious glories of the Barnum & Bailey circus. The advance representatives…

"The Two-Character Play" is a modest title for Tennessee Williams's 1975 psychodrama about a brother and sister locked in mortal combat with familiar Williams demons: debilitating fear, sordid family history, a pills-and...

Nature, sometimes you're too beautiful for words. This incredible shot was taken by Norwegian photographer Haakon Nygård during a winter sunset and simple titled "The Sky Was Pink." The photo also popped up on Reddit ea...

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Taylor Swift has set a record with the Nashville Songwriters Association International. The organization announced Tuesday that it would name Swift as its songwriter/artist of the year. This ...

Welcome to a new series, Anatomy of a Room, where we show you one room that gets it really, really right and then break down exactly why it works and how to copy the look for yourself. Today, let's look at a rustic livin...

NEWARK, N.J. -- NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A federal judge in New Jersey is allowing Lauryn Hill to go on tour before completing her sentence on a tax conviction. Attorney Nathan Hochman says Hill has been permitted to work du...

Michael Fassbender and Penelope Cruz participate in a sex scene in Ridley Scott's new film, "The Counselor," and in a new interview with E! Online, Fassbender confirms that the pretend intercourse was as uncomfortable as...

On Monday a rubber-duck sized version of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's giant public sculpture "Rubber Duck" -- which is having its U.S. debut in Pittsburgh right now after traveling the globe for six years, setting of...

"I said, 'Tell me, did you have an affair with her?' He goes, 'I can't remember! Maybe?' . . . It's not true, that particular one -- although the man is capable of it, as you know."