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The range hood and surrounding cabinets installed. Name: Dan BaileyType of Project: Kitchen remodelLocation: East Boston, Boston, MassachusettsType of building: 2nd Floor Condo in a Greek-Revival Row House The Renovation...

Design Museum London has released their annual Designs of the Year. The shortlist for 2014 includes 76 projects that represent the latest and greatest of furniture, product, fashion, digital, and architectural design.

Ashley Baker Gensler of Loom Decor was a Pitch Presetner at our February Design Evening. Bridging the gap between hiring a designer and DIY, Loom Decor is a great spot for custom soft furnishings. Click above for a few o...

Facebook introduced new gender options yesterday, making the site more user-friendly to people who don't identify strictly as male or female. But while the change has been lauded by many people — particularly LGBT grou...

Q: My friend has a large window in her living room, which is slightly bumped out. In addition, baseboard heaters and a very large soffit run the full length of the wall. She has chosen to have stationary panels plus func...

Tickets are Tammy Lynn Center's annual fundraiser are $14 off this weekend only.

Newly minted billionaire Michael Kors may also have some psychic powers. The designer’s fall 2014 collection, shown at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday (just hours before the latest snowpocalypse), overflowed with co...

Newly minted billionaire Michael Kors may also have some psychic powers. The designer's fall 2014 collection, shown at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday (just hours before the latest snowpocalypse), overflowed with cozy...

Longtime AFI Docs festival director Sky Sitney is leaving the festival, the American Film Institute announced Friday. Sitney, who started with the documentary festival eight years ago, when it was known as Silverdocs, re...

It's Valentine's Day, and what better time to talk about shopping as a couple in IKEA? We've written about IKEA and relationships before, but I want to also share this short gem of documentary from Cynthia Lowen. A Place...

Valentine's Day plus a long weekend means plenty of extra time (and motivation) to shop. We've dug up lots of Presidents' Day sales to make sure you get the most bang for your buck, so thank Washington and Lincoln for sa...

"Beaches" is what Iris Rainer Dart is best known for, and if it's all she ever did, her career would have reached an enviable high tide. The 1985 novel followed an urchin showgirl and an aristocratic tyke, best girlfrien...

What is a nightstand, anyway? Of course we all know what the pieces identified as nightstands at the furniture store look like: little tables, usually with a drawer or shelf. But all a nightstand really is, at its most b...

First lady Michelle Obama is Washington’s most watched fashion plate, having spent the past six years making a stir each time she steps out — whether in gowns by emerging designers such as Jason Wu and Doo-Ri Chung o...

When winds and tides send the Adriatic into Venice, the canal-laced city's most famous plazas become ponds, and pedestrians stride though several ­inches of water. That phenomenon is evoked by "Venice," Chris Anthony's ...

When things go bad for Barbara Hershey's character in the 1988 movie "Beaches," the soundtrack swells. Bette Midler sings "Wind Beneath My Wings," and for many viewers the mysterious faucets in human tear ducts open wide...

When choreographer Zvi Gotheiner immigrated to New York in 1987, the doldrums of Israeli dance scene was one reason for the move. There was plenty of folk dancing and several modern companies, including a dominant troupe...

Jake Heggie has been seen as the epitome of contemporary American opera composers. That's not necessarily a good thing. Heggie's "Dead Man Walking," written with Terrence McNally, had its premiere in 2000. It was a smash...

How do you stage an opera that takes place entirely on board a ship, with a huge cast and chorus, without making the audience feel as claustrophobic as a crew stuck for months on an overlong journey? The answer, in "Moby...

Laura Tedesco hasn't seen the film yet. But the State Department's "Monument Woman" knows exactly what she would do if rockets rained down on the National Museum of Afghanistan. "If I were at the museum and it were being...

The story of Gerry and Travis begins at a grungy warehouse party in Baltimore in 1995. They were invited separately to celebrate a mutual friend's 40th birthday. Travis almost immediately took notice of Gerry.

Maybe you're one of those super-disciplined people who never has any trouble making it to the gym. If so, this post is not for you. But if your failed New Year's resolution to exercise three times a week has already plun...