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The Ohio State University marching band gave the Internet another impressive video. This time, they played tribute Saturday to the Civil War and the Gettysburg Address, which was delivered 150 years ago this week. The ba...

Barry Nemett's recent paintings and drawings are a testament to a lifetime of uncompromised practice and ceaseless development. His solo show Expanding the Grid: Italy and France, currently on view at Denise Bibro in New...

Set in 1994, "Jackpot" is a short film that recreates the experiences of a young gay man who tries to find porn in a pre-Internet world. The boy hears about a stash of gay porn hidden across town and sets out to retrieve...

The campaign boss takes his bourbon on the rocks, with just a splash of water. Kentucky bourbon. "None of that Tennessee crap," growls Bill Hyers. He came to love bourbon while running a Kentucky gubernatorial campaign. ...

The big business of sperm banking has had the one side effect everyone predicted all along: Eventually the babies conceived with anonymously donated, rigorously selected sperm become teenagers and young adults who often ...

Justin Bieber continues to release his "music journals" this week with the debut of "Alone." The new track was made available to fans who purchased a ticket to Bieber's upcoming documentary, "Believe," hitting theaters o...

This weekend, I had a couple of the most enjoyable days I've ever spent at the Kennedy Center. I watched jazz singer Dianne Reeves guide a high school senior's transformation from obedient schoolgirl into freewheeling ja...

There's nothing like combing the design site Houzz for inspiring photos of dream homes. Our favorite, as of late, has been the bathroom. Though the elements of a bathroom will always be the same -- tub and/or shower, toi...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The "Hunger Games" sequel "Catching Fire" opened with $161.1 million at the box office, narrowly besting the original film and setting a record for a November opening. The result, from studio estimates S...

Maurice Hines loves you. He loves his family, he loves his life and he loves the spotlight. He's an old-school entertainer, the life of the party. He wants to make you smile, and he won't take "no." He's a spoonful of su...

Maybe it's getting older and experiencing life's unexpected ebbs and flows, but I've really come to appreciate the niceties of home; a rich cup of coffee every morning, great music when I'm cooking, a soft pillow to rest...

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The new cast of Eugene Onegin, the season opener at the Met, has weighed in. Turns out -- hooray! -- they're a troupe of heavyweights, especially as conducted by debuting Alexander Vedernikov, who appears to have Peter I...

"Are you crazy? Are you sick?" These are questions Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is going to have to get used to hearing. After all, he is just 11 months into a seven-year,...

Katy Perry thinks most awards shows are fun, but she especially loves the American Music Awards. Perry says the Dick Clark-created show "is about serious musicians and their art," and she's thrilled to open the live ABC ...

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PARIS (AP) -- Director Georges Lautner, whose films from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are part of the French canon and still adored, has died. He was 87. The cause of death was not announced. Of the dozens of films he made...

'Legends' is a month-long photographic exhibition and philanthropic project that seeks to celebrate and honor the history of the New York house ballroom scene over the past two decades. Curated by Gerard H. Gaskin, the e...

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"It's All Butch" is a striking annual calendar that showcases butch lesbians in a variety of environments. The brainchild of photographer Debbie Bound, the first installment of the calendar was released in 2010. With spa...

On a good day, art can be a portal to another dimension. On a great day, it's a staircase to nowhere. Meet "Diminish and Ascend," or as we like to call it, the infinite staircase. Designed by New Zealand artist David McC...