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Smart thermostat Nest is reportedly receiving an additional $150 million in funding which will value the company at over $2 billion. If completed, Nest's value will have nearly tripled in less than a year.

Art and car buffs will have an extra two weeks to see Porsche prototypes, racers and street models at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh.

Name: ErikaLocation: East Village - New York, New York Erika sent us photos of her lovely, dramatically dark-walled NYC apartment. She writes: These are pictures of my apartment that I share with my girlfriend and three ...

Karen Cheng famously learned how to dance in a year in a viral YouTube video that racked up millions of views and adoring blog posts over the summer. But as it turns out, that was just the beginning for the 26-year-old S...

Karen Cheng famously learned how to dance in a year in a viral YouTube video that racked up millions of views and adoring blog posts over the summer. But as it turns out, that was just the beginning for the 26-year-old S...

Mikhail Kalashnikov has died. He designed the AK-47.  Let's hope Saint Peter lets him slide  (After all, he helped fill Heaven!). As we welcome Little Squalling Infant 2014, it's the Style Invitational's tradition ...

The Watts Grocery owner is offering a series of cooking classes at her Durham catering kitchen.

Joshua Harris of 4th Wall Entertainment has just moved into his new office inside a famous Hollywood studio lot. Now home to his digital media production house, this office space was once occupied by Desi Arnaz, during t...

Alfred Marshall died on Saturday in Boca Raton, Fla. He founded Marshalls department store in the mid-1950s when he started selling overstocked and irregular clothing and goods out of his Beverly, Mass. general store. He...

Anyone out there on this rollercoaster ride for the second time around? I liveblogged the January Cure last year, and this year I'm going to do it again. Why? Well... have you seen my doormat? It seems you can't just sla...

I'm guilty of it, and you probably are too: regifting. Depending on how you look at it, it's either tacky and thoughtless, or just plain common sense. I fall in the latter camp, and happily pass on things that were given...

January is the time when many of us say, "Out with the old, in with the new," and for me, there's no exception. My partner and I just closed on our first house at the end of December, and this January, we'll be using the...

If you are a fan of the Angus Barn, you might want to book your spot at these dinners and classes before they are gone.

For me, the winter months are project months. Thanks to the cold weather, I'm reluctant to leave the house, so my creativity gets a workout. Here are ten projects using wood-a warm material-that you can make while you st...

92 year-old fashion and design icon Iris Apfel recently sat down with T Magazine EIC Deborah Needleman. "Style is attitude, attitude, attitude," Apfel says. "It ain't what you do, it's what you do with it."

There's a new player in the increasingly-crowded and increasingly-arbitrary world of cryptocurrency. "Coinye West," scheduled to launch on Jan. 11, is — as the name implies — a digital Kanye-themed currency. Its crea...

There's a new player in the increasingly-crowded and increasingly-arbitrary world of cryptocurrency. "Coinye West," scheduled to launch on Jan. 11, is -- as the name implies -- a digital Kanye-themed currency. Its creato...

My house definitely needs a hefty dose of the January cure! We moved in two years ago full of enthusiasm to renovate, remodel and redecorate, but somehow ran out of steam (and money) and the process just stalled. The ups...

They are as familiar along America's highways as road signs. Wearing bluejeans and carrying knapsacks, their hair often reaching to their shoulders, they are youth on the move, hitchhiking from…

Name: Andrew Samuel and Anne GreenwaldLocation: Ukranian Village; Chicago, ILSize: 1,000 square feetYears lived in: 3 months, rented I visited Drew and Annie's apartment on the first snowy day of the season, when everyth...

Something about "Downton Abbey" died with Matthew Crawley last year. Oops -- sorry if you didn't yet know about poor Matthew, but honestly, how long must the rest of us keep quiet about it? Let's make a deal: This is a r...

A 90-plus-year-old house has its challenges. We've only owned it for a year and a half, so there are lots of dreams and possibilities for what could be. Last year we were still accumulating -- furniture, lights, rugs. Th...