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NC State senior Meredith Haake was named the winner of the first High Cotton Collegiate Design Competition.

If you can write a twenty-minute-long opera, you can move on to an hour-long opera. And if you can write an hour-long opera, you can write a full-length work. This is the premise behind the Washington National Opera's Am...

It was one of the most awesome railway disasters ever to occur in North Carolina.

Tantrick: Yoga instruction that can be performed in the back seat of a car. Run-of-the-milk: Funny enough for a joke at breakfast, but not nose-spurtingly funny. Joke Biden: The vice president. Just over eight years ago,...

Europeans are good at everything. Or at least, that's how it seems when you work for a design blog and all the homes you see in Paris and London and Stockholm are beautiful and perfect and amazing. But there's one thing ...

Name: Lea & Mike of Casa Pino, a textile, interior design and art collaborationLocation: Arlington, Virginia My husband and I moved to Arlington from a small apartment in Brooklyn 2 years ago. We now live in a 2 bedroom/...

When does the exuberantly seedy spirit that animates Pointless Theatre's "Minnie the Moocher" flare into full view? Is it when two sinister figures wearing skull masks caper comically on, their enormous skeleton hands be...

It's official -- Congress is a millionaires' club. For the first time ever, most members of Congress are worth at least a cool million. Lawmakers' average net worth in 2012 nosed above the seven-figure mark to $1,008,767...

(The following is satire. Obviously.) INTERIOR POPE & ASSOCIATES OFFICE CHRIS is standing by a conference table in a bright, high-ceilinged room. He's fidgeting and sweating slightly. A door slams offscreen. OLIVIA (OFFS...

What is going on here? Well, there's Adam LaRoche, Nationals' first baseman and hunting aficionado. And then there's that giant dead animal draped across his shoulders. We're working on getting the back story on what tra...

Hey Isn't that Vice President Joe Biden amiably posing for pictures at Le Diplomate in Logan Circle on Wednesday night. According to our tipster, Biden and wife Jill, who've been spotted at the always packed French bistr...

If you find yourself with an overstuffed closet, a floor full of clothes left behind you when you rush out the door in the morning, or in the habit of not being able to find clothes you once had, maybe it's time to make ...

Chef/owner Cheetie Kumar has reopened the restaurant that started as a take-out window.

Name: Keli Faw, founder of Make*Do*Mend + Drygoods DesignLocation: Drygoods Design: 5308 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107 Years worked in: 2 years Keli Faw, founder of the previously online-only fabric and crafting shop...

Why singers connect to some types of music more than others often comes down to personal taste, and how music and language sit in the voice. During the recital by soprano Ana María Martínez, presented Wednesday night b...

You've probably seen, and perhaps marveled at, these pictures of a frozen-solid Niagara Falls. Unfortunately, like everything of beauty and wonder on the Internet, these are either totally misleading or outright false. S...

You've probably seen, and perhaps marveled at, these pictures of a frozen-solid Niagara Falls. Unfortunately, like everything of beauty and wonder on the Internet, these are either totally misleading or outright false.

After I ordered my custom sofa, I felt anxious during pretty much the entire 6-week wait time for delivery. I worried that it wouldn't fit into the hallway to my living room, even though I made sure to measure it. I imag...

Signature Theatre’s gripping “Gypsy,” a revival of the 1959 musical that is fortified by the crackerjack central performances of Sherri L. Edelen as Momma Rose and Maria Rizzo as daughter Gypsy Rose Lee, so captiva...

Signature Theatre's gripping "Gypsy," a revival of the 1959 musical that is fortified by the crackerjack central performances of Sherri L. Edelen as Momma Rose and Maria Rizzo as daughter Gypsy Rose Lee, so captivated me...

Imagine this scenario: you are hanging out one night with a group of friends, and someone suggests you all hop in the hot tub together -- naked. Would you strip down at the drop of a hat? Or would you rather string yours...