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PaveGen tiles, formerly installed at the 2012 Olympics and in London Underground stations, have found a new niche in schools. When walked on, these rubber tiles collect energy, and kids learn about sustainable power. The...

We are big fans of Mette, the woman behind Monsters Circus --she regularly comes up with simple yet beautiful DIY projects. This latest craft is doable in about 30 minutes, using minimal materials.

Want to keep your resolutions? Website Give It 100 asks you to upload a daily progress video. And if failing in public isn't motivation enough, every day you miss a video, you get charged $1, which goes to Yellow Boots D...

"Paranormal Activity" fans hoping for a continuation of -- or perhaps a bit of closure to -- the supernatural saga that has stretched out over four films since the 2007 original insinuated itself into their nightmares ma...

Peace by Ashley Tobin Previous On the Wall print

The National Trust for Historic Preservation released its list of 10 places that were saved in 2013. Thanks to preservationists, you can still visit the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, Wrigley Field in Chicago, Terminal ...

When I got back to Baltimore after a long holiday visit with family, my bedroom greeted me with its disarray. The issue? Clothes everywhere.

January always hits us like a ton of bricks -- the packages have all been unwrapped, that last dregs of champagne are quickly going flat in the fridge and, boy oh boy, is it cold out there. But that's when we know it's t...

If you're craving a new look for the new year, start by making a change to your home that won't cost you anything at all: get rid of things. That's right -- often having less stuff, and not more, is the secret to serendi...

If you were anywhere near the path of Winter storm Hercules these past few days, then you're no doubt currently admiring the beautiful, deep, white snow drifts it left behind. Until it's time to shovel, that is. But luck...

I have a confession: I first mentioned my love of hellebores back in 2011's Wicked + Wonderful Plants: My Personal Arsenal, then again in Blood-Burgundy + Nearly-Black Plants For Fall, but I'd never seen them in person u...

Former Bavarian Brathaus owner opens a new destination for bratwursts and beers.

Playing Viennese waltzes on or around New Year's Eve is a curious custom -- the music was not written with that event in mind -- but has become a reliable seller that most orchestras embrace. So it was that hundreds of m...

He remembers meeting her first. In fall 2011, Michael Moskowitz stopped by an information table at a University of Virginia orientation. Elizabeth Dobbins, also a U-Va. law student, was sitting at that table.

“Veronica Mars” was one of the biggest comeback stories of 2013 — a cult favorite TV-show-turned-movie, all thanks to Kickstarter. And now, creator Rob Thomas is kicking off the new year by releasing the official t...

"Veronica Mars" was one of the biggest comeback stories of 2013 -- a cult favorite TV-show-turned-movie, all thanks to Kickstarter. And now, creator Rob Thomas is kicking off the new year by releasing the official theatr...

Name: Mike Rugnetta & Molly TempletonLocation: Bed Stuy, Brooklyn NYSize: 1,350 square feetYears lived in: 2.5 years; rented Molly Templeton is better known as her internet personality Mememolly, and Mike Rugnetta is a c...

Landscape maestro Wolf Kahn, a German-born artist who fled the Nazis as a child and arrived in the United States in 1940, is best known as a painter whose realism is informed by color-field abstraction. But of the curren...

Two centuries of women's work and the myriad ways that's been historically valued are on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition, "Workt by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts."

Conventional wisdom holds that January can be a challenging time for theaters, with winter weather and post-holiday fatigue tending to put a damper on attendance. But in Richmond, the period after New Year's has become a...

BALTIMORE -- Unlike Michelangelo, Henri Matisse wasn't known for painting miracles. But in 1945, he sketched the one he witnessed. The French modernist had only one daughter, Marguerite, who acted as his model, muse and ...

There's nothing like making a list of jobs to do around the house to un-earth all the things you've been avoiding for the last few months...or even two years. Welcome to my list of shame: all those things I have been hid...