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What we do to embrace the change from fall to frosty.

While the art world was fully engaged in the discovery of 1400 lost entartete Kunst paintings in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, a story still unfolding, another, far more modest yet potent victory was celebra...

Blanton Sheorn, a head grower at Metrolina Greenhouses, walks through a greenhouse full of poinsettias, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, in Huntersville. Metrolina Greenhouses grows and sells more than 3 million…

"Glee" star Matthew Morrison smacked of Justin Timberlake at the beginning and Gene Kelly at the end of his Friday concert with the National Symphony Orchestra's Pops series. Neither persona was terribly convincing, desp...

Let's play a game: Are the following parties taking place during New York Fashion Week or Art Basel Miami Beach?

If you're a connoisseur of interesting spaces, then you'll love this week's tours. From a midcentury condo in Phoenix to an uber-modern loft in San Diego to a billiard room turned home in Glasgow, these homes aren't just...

It has been possible to chase composer Richard Wagner's quest for endless melody around the globe in this year. With more than a dozen productions of his epic four-opera Der Ring Des Nibelungen - the Olympics of the oper...

The blog site Interesting Literature: A Library of Literary Interestingness, and accompanying Twitter feed, is celebrating its one-year anniversary this weekend. With that in mind, here are the 12 most interesting facts ...

"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" earned a prodigious $75 million, while 3-D animated musical "Frozen" opened with $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Both films bested the previous Thanksgiving record hol...

If you don't have a child around, chances are you don't play with Lego very often. Unless you're Douglas Coupland. As part of FUSE, the Vancouver Art Gallery's popular adult-only event that takes place on select Friday e...

LONDON, Dec 1

You might remember Blake Baer and Jack Bittner's amazing LEGO re-creation of Rivendell from "The Lord Of The Rings" movie last year. Now that "The Hobbit" has been released, the two teens -- now 17 and 18 years old -- ha...

The phrase "fabric house" might bring to mind a mental image of a play house, or perhaps an uncreatively-named sewing supply shop. But when cloth is put in the hands of Korean artist Do-Ho Suh, the resulting structure is...

The mudroom with built-in bench and board and batten trim. Name: Meg and JoshType of Project: Mudroom/Breakfast Nook remodelLocation: Chinook, WashingtonType of building: Single-Family Home, 1,000 square feet For all of ...

Paul Walker died on Saturday, Nov. 30 in Santa Clarita, Calif. He was 40. The California-born actor is remembered as a "humble" man with a "sweet and grounded" sprit. Walker counted his first film credit for 1986's "Mons...

Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world, captured in the thick of things. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into various events around t...

Homophobia reared its ugly head in response to the supposedly cheerful Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, as some Americans took to social media to criticize the performance of "Kinky Boots," an award-winning Br...

This is the fifth installment in an ongoing series that explores drag culture and the nightlife scene in Brooklyn, N.Y. Over the past several years, following the large-scale exodus of artists across the East River and i...

As we recognize, celebrate and remember during this year's World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, Element Magazine is attempting to enhance visibility surrounding HIV/AIDS awareness through this highly-visual photo campaign. Involving ...

BEIJING (AP) -- Two aspiring American rappers said Saturday that they had filmed part of a music video in North Korea, hoping the novel locale will make a hit. The rappers known as Pacman and Peso did not say where and h...

Simply Special: 10 Well Designed Gifts Under $50 Cheers! Glam Goodies for Bars at Home Ho Ho Ho: Stylish Secret Santa Gifts Good Things Come in Small Packages: Gifts Under $10 For People Who Love to DIY, Craft & Make Thi...

Admittedly, we have a soft spot for bridges. From actual living bridges to proposed trampolines across the Seine, we just think bridges are super nifty. Enter the "Mobius" bridge that's proposed for the Dragon King Harbo...