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As someone who has been obsessed with interiors for most of my life, I absorb so much content daily from work, blogs, vendors, etc. that it's rare for me to come across something so surprising that it completely stops me...

N&O dining critic Greg Cox on the Triangle's best restaurants and the past year's biggest dining trends.

Don't worry... even Gwyneth Paltrow has a "troubled" living room. The GOOP founder used Room in a Box, the e-decorating service of designer Windsor Smith. Changes include moving the piano to the center of the room, getti...

Like many crafters I find myself with a surplus of small items. Whether it's thread, or twine, or more thread, or paint, or even more thread, I seem to have amassed quite a collection of tiny, necessary objects. Lucky fo...

Fur & Glasses by Audrey Jeanne Previous On the Wall print

Lauren Newman and Evan Isaacs first met on a date that really wasn't much of a date. A casual dinner was planned by their mutual friend Melissa in the spring of 2011 after she'd been whispering to both of them how good t...

Some guys who are publishing a book claim some of the paintings in a recent Van Gogh exhibition at the Phillips Collection aren't in fact by Van Gogh. The Phillips Collection, citing the most respected authorities in the...

Name: Annette and Phil EnglanderLocation: Brooklyn, New YorkSize: 900 square feetYears lived in: 22 years; Owned Husband and wife duo Phil and Annette share a Brooklyn home that beautifully displays their collective crea...

We've finally reached the end of the January Cure, and quite the experiment it was, for me. At the beginning I approached it more like a Makeover Challenge, and to be honest with you, got a bit stressed about what I coul...

Storage beds once seemed like the orthopedic shoe of the design world--sensible, but not stylish. These days, some are so attractive that you may want one even if your bedroom is spacious. Ideal for small starter apartme...

You can forgive David Crosby for not remembering the Washington-area venue he was playing in the summer of 1994 when his liver finally gave out after so many blurry years of dope and drink. But he does recall that it too...

This was a squeaker and I just finished my basement reorganization - with one day to spare until the end of the month. Last time we chatted, I had stalled a bit. But this past weekend I busted a move and did a ton of mor...

It's been a full birthday week for rapper J. Cole, who turned 29 on Tuesday. He launched his own Dreamville label imprint and released a new mixtape, "Revenge of the Dreamers." During a show at New York's Madison Square ...

They were friends and colleagues, and they deeply admired each other's art. But an important exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, opening May 11, argues that the relationship between the older French artist Edgar D...

"Musically, I don't care much [anymore] about what you may do and may not do," says the composer Louis Andriessen. "I feel more -- not vulgar, because everyone is already vulgar, but I feel free." Andriessen was speaking...

At the Kennedy Center come March, all the world's ON stage. From China and Chile the plays will arrive, and from France and Kuwait and Canada and Australia and Mexico and Israel and South Africa. From every continent, in...

One of the easiest ways to spruce up a home is with seasonal decor. Invite a bit of the outdoors into your home this winter with all things inspired by the woods (and the critters that live there.) As if taken from a sto...

Feel like shopping this weekend? Of course you do. We found you lots of great deals on everything from the still-going-strong January white sales at Unison and Westin, to 15% off Crate & Barrel beds and mattresses. Hit u...

When Terry Chiao moved into a former Brooklyn textile factory, she realized she needed a roommate, and therefore some privacy. Instead of putting up typical walls, the artist built herself a treehouse and a cabin for a r...

Ready for your country music baptism? Come a little closer. Every summer, Nashville's biggest names swarm our area's biggest venues. But as lively as those massive concert extravaganzas can be, the performances occasiona...

Cathy Horyn, the New York Time’s chief fashion critic, is leaving the paper to spend more time with her ailing partner, Liz Claiborne co-founder Art Ortenberg. The news comes less than two weeks before the start of New...

Cathy Horyn, the New York Time's chief fashion critic, is leaving the paper to spend more time with her ailing partner, Liz Claiborne co-founder Art Ortenberg. The news comes less than two weeks before the start of New Y...