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Say "Westminster Kennel Club" and one immediately thinks of preening purebreds groomed within an inch of their lives. But among the high-born specimens on display during the organization's televised competitions in New Y...

For Jonathan Groff, the talented actor who is now staring in HBO's Looking, bartending never worked in his favor. While he's the first to admit he was “a great waiter,” there was something about mixing drinks behind ...

Britain's National Gallery has bought its first-ever painting by an American artist. The purchase of "Men of the Docks" by George Bellows is a departure from the Gallery's previous policy of only acquiring pieces by arti...

We just passed our one-year "Housiversary", one year from the day we took a deep plunge into a pool of debt and found ourselves with a set of keys to an empty house. We brainstormed how we would celebrate this momentous ...

Sarah bought this mid-century dresser at a recent auction for $8. $8!!!! Since its legs were lost years ago, the dresser needed a little pick-me-up to get it off the ground and back to being furniture to fawn over.

In Archiset, Barcelona-based artist, architect, and cinephile Federico Babina illustrates the interiors of classic films in his signature retro style. Babina intended the series to resemble dollhouses of movies such as G...

It’s very good news that the majestic rock formation known as Natural Bridge (near Lexington, Va.) will become a Virginia state park. Given its importance to American history, the fact that the land beneath it was once...

You may have been tempted recently by a meme asking you to "occupy Facebook" with art or poetry. Please resist the urge. Facebook's latest chain-mail-style fad, which emerged over the past week, operates much like the "2...

You may have been tempted recently by a meme asking you to "occupy Facebook" with art or poetry. Please resist the urge. Facebook's latest chain-mail-style fad, which emerged over the past week, operates much like the "2...

Get set to shop this weekend. We found super deals on everything from FLOR tiles to sofas at West Elm and some amazing discounts on both Jonathan Adler and Scandinavian-chic Secto Design at Lumens. In New York, join a pa...

Remember the episode of Sex and the City where Carrie Bradshaw goes to look at apartments, and the only one she can afford has a tiny closet, and she's like, but where do the shoes go?, and her agent is like, you get one...

Rosie O'Donnell paid a very highly-hyped visit to "The View" on Friday morning. Why is that a big deal? For those with short memory spans regarding daytime talk show drama, this is the first time that O'Donnell appeared ...

Rosie O’Donnell paid a very highly-hyped visit to “The View” on Friday morning. Why is that a big deal? For those with short memory spans regarding daytime talk show drama, this is the first time that O’Donnell a...

By October 2015, the swipe and sign credit card system will be mostly extinct. U.S. credit card companies will be switching to a chip & PIN system, like much of the rest of the world. A quarter of all credit card transac...

Sunday marks the return of "The Walking Dead," and all of its zombie-filled gore. The mid-season finale was a brutal, violent 60 minutes of television; it was also one of the most refreshing episodes of the series. Whate...

Sunday marks the return of "The Walking Dead," and all of its zombie-filled gore. The mid-season finale was a brutal, violent 60 minutes of television; it was also one of the most refreshing episodes of the series. Whate...

The Olympics are a boon to politically inclined artists and satirists. The games have long since devolved into a crass international marketing scheme, which offers a ready-made iconography ripe for parody and repurposing...

The Olympics are a boon to politically inclined artists and satirists. The games have long since devolved into a crass international marketing scheme, which offers a ready-made iconography ripe for parody and repurposing...

Name: Lucie Ayres, interior designer at 22 Interiors & Chris Ayres, author & journalist Location: Hollywood Hills; Los Angeles, CaliforniaSize: 2,750 square feetYears lived in: 7 years Lucie and her husband Chris bought ...

The city fathers (and mothers) of "Beertown" -- that fictional bastion of ballot-worshiping democracy -- have temporarily pulled up stakes inside the Beltway and resettled smack-dab in the middle of Manhattan.

If you care about art, you are obliged to loathe the film "The Monuments Men," a star-studded history drama that purports to tell the story of American efforts to rescue and repatriate art stolen by the Nazis in World Wa...

Just hours before the Versace couture show began in Paris last month, Donatella, the creative force behind the brassy Italian house, snapped a photo of the most glittering piece on display. "My beautiful room!" she wrote...