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An Oregon Army veteran has discovered a revolutionary -- and absolutely beautiful -- way of dealing with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Stephen Simmons first joined the U.S. Army in 1986 and returned from...

They put a green screen in the Red Room, directly across from an early-19th-century portrait of Dolley Madison. In the Blue Room, where the president receives guests beneath a large crystal chandelier, period costumes we...

The Melbourne band Hiatus Kaiyote doesn't seem like anything special on first glance: The group has a quirky made-up name, a lead singer with a love of costume, a cute nickname for its sound ("future soul") and enthusias...

by Pamela Redmond Satran for Nameberry You say you want an unusual baby name, something far beyond the U.S. Top 1000. But you also want a name that's got meaning and history, that's both creative and cultured. Does such ...

In February of 2013, singer Chloe Temtchine was completing her album, No Pressure -- produced by Grammy nominee, Greg Camp -- and preparing the international promotional tour. Then one day she was rushed to the emergency...

The central character in Jonah Bokaer's "Occupant" is the modern dance equivalent of either Mama Rose in "Gypsy" or Nurse Ratched. Hard to say. The cryptic new work by Bokaer, a former Merce Cunningham dancer, premiered ...

Ever wonder what happened to Nora, the protagonist of Ibsen's "A Doll's House," after she left her husband and children, slamming the door behind her? Or Alice of "Through the Looking Glass" fame in the years after her a...

I love talkbacks. As an audience member, I appreciate the opportunity to learn more about what I've just seen. There are those who think poorly of talkbacks. They think theater, in many ways an ephemeral art, is to be ex...

White-lipped peccaries may not be glamorous-looking, but like their truffle-sniffing cousins, they sometimes turn up treasure. On the trail of the pig-like creatures in Brazil, researchers made an unexpected and rare dis...

I first became aware of the work of photographer, filmmaker and independent publisher Bob Mizer (1922-1992) by chance one momentous spring afternoon in the late '60s. I grew up in the ghetto of Detroit, and in the teneme...

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NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Nathaniel Stampley ached to make the role of Porgy his own in the celebrated 2012 Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess." Instead, he kept dying. Stampley was an understudy for Norm Lewis in th...

To most, "The Lone Ranger" is an American icon -- a cowboy vigilante whose masked visage became synonymous with the glory of the old west. Artist Dotty Attie explores the folk figure's simultaneous embodiment of seductio...

LOS ANGELES-Californians are more supportive of President Barack Obama's health care law than the country at large, but they still worry it will raise health care costs and hurt the…

Heidi Klum has bought the Sherman Oaks estate of Ed Weinberger, one of the creators of "The Cosby Show," and his wife, television actress Carlene Watkins, for $9.875 million.

Administration officials scrambled Friday to find a quick fix to a problem President Barack Obama said would never come about - millions of insurance policies canceled for people who have…

Cary baker Lionel Vatinet Vatinet is as passionate about teaching as he is about breadmaking, and that's what prompted him to write a cookbook, "A Passion for Bread": to help…

Eighteen days and counting when the most important food event of the year comes to your dinner table. And gravy is the centerpiece of Thanksgiving. You can roast the turkey…

Retracing the painter's life in Vermont…

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A place called "Dismal Swamp" sounds like something to be avoided. But you'll find that the Great Dismal Swamp, in northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, can actually be a…

Your private space should reflect your personality…