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Inspired by a true story: "SIT" Theatre by the Blind presents an original play about one blind girl's journey through life. Theatre by the Blind, (TBTB) the country's only theater troupe composed entirely of blind adult ...

Hey, isn't that U2 frontman Bono and his wife Ali Hewson, grabbing a late-afternoon lunch at Kafe Leopold in Georgetown on Saturday? The crooner/activist looked appropriately rock-star scruffy, our tipster says, wearing ...

You may have spent all of Valentine's Day binge-watching Season 2 of "House Of Cards," but almost two weeks later Kate Mara hasn't even finished it. "I'm not done yet. I haven't seen the whole season," Mara told In Touch...

Meryl Streep is up for Best Actress at this Sunday's Academy Awards for her part in "August: Osage Country." The honor counts as Streep's 18th Oscar nomination. She previously took home awards for Best Supporting Actress...

Avicii's hit song "Wake Me Up" was begging to be rickrolled from the start. It was really only a matter of time before the song got the inevitable Rick Astley-Chumbawamba mashup to become "Never Gonna Wake Up" -- and her...

Early Monday afternoon, a rumor flickered across Twitter about a possible gunman on a Big Ten campus. The report was false, but for a moment it was terribly easy to believe it was all happening again. The same can't be s...

Tallur L.N. Unicode, 2011, Bronze, coins and concrete   At an oddly chaotic prize ceremony during the 2013 Delhi Art fair, with crowds jammed around an ill-lit open-air buffet, I had my first glimpse of Tellur's complex...

Every day for a year, UK-based photographer Andrew Whyte snapped pics of a LEGO man with a tiny camera on his iPhone. The series shows the mini-photographer shooting a wedding, getting chased by a hermit crab, and in bea...

According to Variety, "Girls" star Adam Driver may play the villain in J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: Episode VII." Driver was first rumored for the project earlier this year. HuffPost Entertainment contacted a representative ...

The idea of a dedicated vanity space instantly conjures up visions of over-the-top makeup counters surrounded by rows of bright globe lights, better fit for a drag show dressing room than my modest apartment. But just li...

It doesn't take stat-crunching to realize the Oscars have some diversity issues, but if there was ever any doubt, Lee & Low Books has produced an infographic that verifies our long-standing complaints. It's hard to pinpo...

Ever since Pussy Riot's anti-Putin performance in a Russian cathedral, the activist band has drawn worldwide attention. But with an absence of protest art in Russia, journalist Masha Gessen wondered how exactly they got ...

I am an inveterate perfectionist, though my perfectionism takes a unique and insidious form (below). Distinguishing perfectionism from the desire for excellent results -- the former a compulsion, the latter an admirable ...

If you have ever built a piece of furniture for your home, you know the unparalleled joy it can bring (no matter how fancy or not fancy that piece of furniture is.) Today, Ben Light brings us the simplest of DIY furnitur...

Name: Vana Chupp of Le Papier StudioLocation: Mount Prospect, IllinoisSize: 400 square feetYears lived in: 7 months; rented When Vana and her husband, both trained as architects, decided to move her office back into thei...

Gay country hunk Steve Grand needs your help to make his debut album dream a reality. The independent Chicago-based singer-songwriter, who shot to viral fame last summer with the smash single "All-American Boy," is aimin...

Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have built a shape-shifting prototype phone. Called Paddle, it's design is based on 3-D Rubik's Magic Puzzle, a loop of 8 squares that can currently fold into 15 differ...

Grammy award winning rap artist Lil' Jon took part in a caps-lock laden Reddit AMA on Tuesday, and the results are fantastic. Encouraging Reddit to "turn up," the hip-hop artist known for his loud attitude and flashy gri...

Well okay, maybe it's not everything you need to know about this year's Oscar contenders. But it's certainly what you most want to know — namely, how they all end. Benny and Rafi Fine, a wildly popular YouTube comedy d...

Well okay, maybe it's not everything you need to know about this year's Oscar contenders. But it's certainly what you most want to know -- namely, how they all end. Benny and Rafi Fine, a wildly popular YouTube comedy du...

Yesterday I shared with you my first round of favorites from the Toy Fair and today I'm back with more. As I wander around exploring different booths I sometimes forget I can't actually shop the fair and bring something ...

Full disclosure, I hate cleaning. No really, I do. I hate how it makes my allergies flare up, the time it takes, and well, just about everything about it. But while I dislike cleaning, I do enjoy having guests in my home...