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The harbinger of spring in much of the country is the native eastern redbud known botanically as Cercis canadensis. That being said - hallelujah - they are blooming now in…

I had just gotten out of a relationship and was looking for things to do. This Groupon coupon came up for dodgeball in D.C. I showed up to play with these people I'd never met. That was four years ago. My thought going i...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Who hasn't Pharrell produced for? The hitmaker's Rolodex includes pop heavyweights from Beyonce to Justin Timberlake, maestros like Hans Zimmer and Heitor Pereira, and wildcards such as Daft Punk and Sci...

"Gucci: The Director" (Showtime at 8 p.m.) is an intimate portrait of Gucci's creative director Frida Giannini that follows her for 18 months in the iconic Italian fashion house while she gets inspired for yet another Gu...

Baltimore, get your eyeglasses ready. Thomas Dolby, the man behind the 1982 earworm hit "She Blinded Me With Science," is going to be a Johns Hopkins University professor. Dolby will be teaching a fall course called "Sou...

Two years ago, Jason Barnes lost his arm after being electrocuted while repairing a restaurant's vent hood. Seemingly, the musician's dreams of becoming a professional drummer were ended by the accident. But Barnes wasn'...

The last time we checked in on photographer and editor Matthew Vandeputte, he took us on an incredible motion time-lapse trip from Belgium to Australia. Now he has accomplished a photographic feat by capturing the world'...

Reader: I am a 24-year-old female college grad trying to break into an extremely insular field. At a recent family funeral, I met an older cousin's ex-husband who, it turns out, is good friends with someone in the field....

Susan Haid 57, Chantilly, health-care risk manager The Texas wind blows the hair of the towheaded girl and flaps the sheets on the clothesline, like sails coming through a tack in 20-knot gusts. A young mother smiles and...

This white scallop-shaped pendant has a sweet shape, but the thin trim and brass touches keep it sophisticated and elegant. Amazon lists this light for $856 which, for many of us, is out of the realm of possibility. See ...

The University of California-Berkeley's Cloyne Court, the largest cooperative house in America, is under threat of being completely revamped, and Cal students are fighting to save it. The Berkeley Student Cooperative, a ...

Common sense dictates that if you can't beat them, you might as well join in. But by making 35 million images free and available to the Internet public with an embed code, Getty Images is doing one better: If you can't b...

Common sense dictates that if you can't beat them, you might as well join in. But by making 35 million images free and available to the Internet public with an embed code, Getty Images is doing one better: If you can't b...

Administrators at Santa Fe University of Art and Design were not happy to see depictions of female anatomy and the words "Solid Gold Clit" painted around campus. So unhappy, they nearly imposed a $250 fine on every stude...

Bari has been working with a local design firm to decorate her home in Philadelphia, and the most recent space to be completed was her guest bathroom. She loved the original clawfoot tub, but she wanted to make the walls...

Remember that uniquely teenage feeling of hearing a song for the first time and knowing it had just changed your life forever? If you are of my vintage, that memory is rooted in the seventies, a sublime moment for rock, ...

Tim Wright, grandson to renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, bought a Blu Homes prefab for his Wisconsin property. The Balance model was erected in Spring Green, close to his grandfather's famed Taliesin East, of which...

If you thought sharing a small apartment was difficult, imagine being these two artists sharing a gigantic hamster wheel. Taking the challenges of co-habitation to a new level, Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder have taken u...

When I was growing up, "coming out" to your parents meant exiting the house and going out toward the lawn where the barbecue was -- carrying the platter of hamburgers and franks. There was, of course, a veil over what th...

Katy Perry's relationship with Miley Cyrus sure is hot and then cold. Perry, who has been on good terms with Cyrus in the past, spoke this week about her recent kiss with the 21-year-old singer. The two locked lips at a ...

There's no rulebook for the Congressional Hockey Challenge, the annual charity game that pits members of Congress against lobbyists. So we can't say officially that it was a sneaky move for Team Lawmakers to import a few...

The term "normcore," has been sweeping the internet this past week, giving a name to a contemporary fashion trend marked by white sneakers, zip-up sweatshirts and pleated pants. New York Magazine's Fiona Duncan defined t...