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Critics and audiences weren't the only ones who thought "Rock of Ages" was a bad movie. According to TheWrap, "Rock of Ages" co-star Alec Baldwin called the musical "horrible" during an interview with New Yorker editor D...

Wilson Daily Times food editor Lisa Boykin Batts shares her mother's recipe for this eastern N.C. treat.

BOO! With Halloween upon us, HuffPost Weird News has assembled a list of 13 horror films that were inspired by disturbing real-life events. These films aren't the best or the worst, but the fact that they're based on rea...

The ways of opera houses are inscrutable. When the Washington National Opera opened its production of "La Forza del Destino" the other week, I tried to think of reasons officials engaged such poor singers. It's almost im...

Elliott Smith needed a cigarette. The singer-songwriter was onstage at Largo on Fairfax Avenue not long after smoking had been banned in California bars.

The always-entertaining champion figure skater Johnny Weir is officially retiring from the sport, he announced Wednesday on the "Today" show. Instead, he'll take his talents to NBC, where he'll become an announcer and he...

Actor, film-maker and painter Liu Xiadong is currently the subject of two recent exhibitions: "Between Israel and Palestine" at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, and "Hometown Boy," at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. A l...

Don Geronimo, the freewheeling radio personality who left Washington's airwaves after three decades in 2008, is on his way back. Geronimo will return to his old station, WJFK (106.7 FM), starting Thursday with a new even...

Wineries are set up this week at the Hunt Horse Complex outside Gate 8 of the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.

Molly Jo Shea is an artist with a highly developed sense of humor which is clearly at play in her work. Her art straddles the boundary between satire and an admiring embrace of those things she may or may not be critiqui...

Seriously, no matter how hard you try and spin the Lorde song "Royals," it is inescapably catchy. This parody by The Key of Awesome is no exception, so beware -- it will be stuck in your head for all time. We especially ...

The next time someone says count your blessings, do it... were it not for the scant 120-odd years that have passed, pretty much every last one of us would have been a good candidate for the West Virginia Hospital for the...

Graffiti artist Banksy is two thirds of the way through a "residency" on the streets of New York City but it seems that the project has run into a spot of bother in the last 24 hours. Throughout October "Better Out Than ...

Sorry Red Sox fans, you're stuck with "Sweet Caroline" for awhile hang on, doesn't everyone love the iconic Neil Diamond tune? Apparently not. According to the Boston Globe, the team tossed around the idea of changing it...

What is Adrian Fenty up to these days? In case you missed it earlier today: Our colleague Dan Zak checked up on the former D.C. mayor, who landed a gig at a Silicon Valley law office last month, and also involved in a "b...

Sheldon makes a scientific breakthrough on "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS at 8 p.m.), but he feels it may haunt him for the rest of his career. After Howard makes a grand romantic gesture for Bernadette, Penny puts more effo...

Keen interest in the effort of The New York Times to find the truly typical American girl of the day was expressed yesterday by Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch. ... Mrs.

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She was the epitome of simple chic at a time when the style du jour was anything but. She was savvy, sophisticated and oh, so quotable. But reading through some of Ms. Chanel's most famous words, it's also clear that the...

If you're looking for the image to illustrate the definition of "complete comfort in one's skin," you need not look any further. These rare photos from the archives of LIFE Magazine show an individual so uniquely at ease...

Name: Deirdre and Vito Donno (and cat Onzo)Location: Brooklyn, New YorkSize: 3,000 square feetYears lived in: 16 years; Owned Long time Brooklyn resident Deirdre Donno has an an unparalleled eye for style. After many yea...

There are more trunk shows in the Triangle this week, plus some chances to spend money for good causes and a tote bag designed by Justin LeBlanc.