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Barbara Park's "Junie B. Jones" books, more than any haphazardly kept journal or carefully curated photo album, capture how dramatically my parenting has changed in the past eight years.

Theater and opera crazo Terrence McNally loves writing about his passions, especially anything to do with their off-stage aspects. Given his list-as-long-as-your-arm resumé, he's certainly a playwright who's spent enoug...

The microbrew movement is slowly taking hold in South Florida.

The holidays are just around the corner, and who says you can't break out a little Christmas music even before Thanksgiving? Pentatonix thinks it's okay, and so do we. Watch them bring on the cheer and smiles with this a...

This holiday season make a sparkly statement with sequin pants instead of the standard cocktail dress. These drawstring stunners are currently available at Anthropologie and we can’t wait to style ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Opera singers Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott have separated. The soprano's spokesmen issued a statement Monday saying her relationship with the bass-baritone had ended "amicably" after six years. Netreb...

On a recent too-cold-to-go-out-even-for-us day, our house became a makeshift stadium for countless throwing and running around games -- anything we could come up with to burn off energy and avoid going stir-crazy. Invite...

Here are a few little tabletop gifts that you can bring as thank-yous for a holiday hostess... and a few splurges that you might want to give as gifts to yourself.

The following is an excerpt from What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power [Seal Press, $17.00], a collection of interviews conducted by Marianne Schnall. Below is her i...

We don't know how this happened, but it did and it's incredible. Composer Jim Wilson recorded crickets making their normal, cricket-y sounds and found that for some reason, after slowing down the recording, it sounds lik...

Extreme small space living tends to be a sacrifice, filled with trade-offs. A tiny house may not have a formal bedroom, but it also doesn't come with a mortgage. But for the "Yestermorrow" home, a compact floor plan offe...

Be it Atlantis or Mordor, artists and cartographers have long been fixated with creating visual representations of lands no living human has ever visited. Novelist and essayist Umberto Eco explores the worlds that have b...

Samuel Beckett's 1953 Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter's 1975 No Man's Land rank high on the list of the world drama's enigmatically existential talkfests, placing two aged and futureless characters together in a deso...

Name: Rachel Lavin of Pio JewelryLocation: Bouldin Creek, Austin, TexasSize: 700 square feetYears lived in: 7 years Sometimes you get to know someone the moment you walk into their home. That's the case wtih jewelry make...

The guitar has a distinguished legacy and repertoire. If you include lute music, which is easily adapted, a guitarist has centuries of literature to mine. So the programming of Sunday evening's recital at the National Ga...

Singer-songwriter Bonnie "Prince" Billy released a new recording of his song "Black Captain" on Saturday, dedicated to Greenpeace captain Peter Willcox. Willcox was recently released from a jail in St. Petersburg after s...

Instead of the bygone damsels in distress -- yes we're talking about you Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty -- the female royals of "Frozen," Disney's latest animated wonder, are feisty, forward and independent. ...

Ever buy an appliance with so many working parts that you feel the need to read the owner's manual again and again? A first sitting through "If/Then," the charming and ungainly new musical trying out for Broadway at the ...

Jen Lewis at BuzzFeed has done a public service by creating these Bingo cards for your dysfunctional family Thanksgiving. Now, when your Aunt gets drunk or the turkey takes too long, it just means you're one step closer ...

Yahoo confirmed Monday that Katie Couric will be joining the online giant as "global news anchor" in 2014. She will conduct interviews with newsmakers and oversee a staff of reporters in her new position.

We are big fans of natural cleaners here on Apartment Therapy, and generally they are very easy (and inexpensive!) to make. I personally try to use citrus in my cleaning repertoire whenever I can because I find it to be ...

We're nearing the middle of winter, and it's times like these that summery retreats like this one start to look really, really good. I would love to be sipping a cocktail by the pool right now. Helpfully, weather.com tel...