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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Days before celebrities strut their Armani and Gucci gowns at the Oscars, protesters rallied on the red carpet Friday to shine a spotlight on one of the awards show's biggest disparities. The securit...

Complaints about the Oscars' gender disparities are in no short supply, even from the nominees themselves. But "Before Midnight" co-star Julie Delpy, who's a Best Original Screenplay contender for penning the movie's scr...

This "dark and dreary" dining room just begged for a makeover to not only brighten it up, but also to make it a space that might actually get used. Inhabited by folks who love to entertain, this small room needed more se...

Did you find good advice from a post we published last week, 4 Fixes for Common Design Detours? Well if your particular design detour -- those times your home's design just gets off-track from what you had in mind -- was...

The writers of the 2000 hit comedy "Miss Congeniality" received inspiration for the Sandra Bullock flick from an unusual place: Ellen DeGeneres. The Oscar host revealed in a new interview with Parade that her attempt to ...

"Successful" meaning not ending up with a room that looks more like a nursery or kid's room versus your living room or grown-up bedroom. With spring on her way, you'll no doubt be seeing pastel colors pop up everywhere i...

Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world, captured in the thick of things. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into various events around t...

Bruce Springsteen may have been born in the U.S.A., but when he played a show Saturday in Auckland, New Zealand, he didn't shy away from a local cover -- the song "Royals" by New Zealand's resident superstar Lorde. Sprin...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- The Oscars will get a dressed-down, beach-side rehearsal at Saturday's 29th annual Spirit Awards. As the final award show before Sunday's Oscars, the Spirit Awards are a looser affair held in...

Sunday's Oscars will feature a host of A-list performers, including all four Best Original Song nominees. Even if a lineup like this means there's no way the telecast will clock in under three hours, at least we can get ...

Would you be willing to serenade an alligator? In 1944, the American Museum of Natural History in New York performed an experiment called "Response of Captive Alligators to Auditory Stimulation," where naturalists observ...

Back in November, before leaving town for a weekend, Nicole Helprin and her two kids wrote a few wishes on tags and hung them on a tree in front of their Portland, Ore., home, KGW reported. When Helprin got back, the tre...

HAVANA (AP) -- Dozens of works of art were secretly taken from a storage facility at Cuba's flagship National Museum of Fine Arts and some have surfaced across the Florida Straits in Miami, museum and gallery officials s...

Martha calls this a "hardworking piece of furniture" because it's got no unnecessary design elements and is just a sturdy, plain piece of furniture that does a good job. In this case, as a dresser. But while hardworking,...

Name: Kathryn & Joey Location: Belltown Neighborhood, Seattle, Washington We are first time homeowners living in a small condo in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle. Our home is a serene, comforting space in the middle...

You might be motivated to watch the newly unveiled opening scene from the "Veronica Mars" movie for one of two reasons: You're a die-hard Marshmallow who pines for any fresh material the show can offer, or you've never s...

Even if you've seen all the Oscar-nominated films, you haven't seen them like this. Mike Breach, 28, a New York barista, specializes in "baristart," a self-coined term for art made in the foam of lattes. Using only a too...

By David Rosenberg In 2004, Matthew Pillsbury met Nathan Noland, fell in love, came out as a gay man, and subsequently left his wife. It was a profound time for the then-30-year-old photographer, who said the coming-out ...

Aristocratic portraits that once hung in the halls of a half-remembered dream, elaborate banquets you read about in a historical fiction novel, overgrown castle grounds hazily recalled from a travel brochure -- these ima...

Though things are coming along in my new apartment (I found a rad dining table last week!) it's all too easy for me to get down when I realize that I don't have a single rug yet, that I'll have beige walls for the forese...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A former financial officer of Pearl Jam's management company has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for embezzling more than $300,000 from the band. The Seattle Times reports (://is.gd/vpGb3n ) that Su...

Do you ever wonder what a piece of furniture you spot on a store's website will look like in a real-life room? If you're feeling overwhelmed by the choices out there or just want to browse photos of spectacular seating t...