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Rosselyn Ramirez and Derek Sakakura of Diablo Ballet in George Balanchine's Who Cares? (Photo: Ashraf Habibullah) After 20 years of charming East Bay audiences, Walnut Creek-based Diablo Ballet tipped its hat to the past...

"Green Snake" March 27-30, Eisenhower Theater Country: China Description: An interpretation of a timeless Chinese myth about two sister snakes becoming human and attempting love, adapted from the novel by Lillian Lee (Li...

Page Skelton of Pittsboro has turned his spicy Cackalacky sauce into a whole line of products.

I walk to my spot and sit down, a mat beneath me and two cushions under my bottom. I'm comfortable now but I know it won't last. Within ten minutes the aches will begin. Dull and annoying to start and then as time drags ...

Project by: Jean-Bastien LagrangeLocation: Le Marais district, Paris, France What's better than a lazy Saturday spent slowly making your way out of bed, enjoying the late-morning light streaming in through your bedroom w...

Has this happened to you? At a thrift shop or a junk store, you see a beautiful piece of furniture, with a not so beautiful finish. The price is right, and you long to take it home -- but re-finishing furniture just seem...

I'm taking screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto at his word: that there's nothing coming at the end of his superbly crafted and brilliantly acted True Detective (concluding tonight on HBO) that relies on the supernatural or extra...

Name: Adam Baz, with his girlfriend Ashley VaughanLocation: Portland, Oregon Our spacious North Portland apartment is filled with plant life, Danish-modern furniture, vibrant textiles, and many DIY furnishings. We wanted...

Name: Adam BazLocation: Portland, Oregon Our spacious North Portland apartment is filled with plant life, Danish-modern furniture, vibrant textiles, and many DIY furnishings. We wanted the space to strike a perfect balan...

It has been far too many years since Washington audiences saw Chicago's Joffrey Ballet do anything besides "The Nutcracker." That was beautifully, and almost painfully, apparent Friday night when the company performed at...

The always-polarizing Lena Dunham hosted "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, and if you bet in your "SNL" pool that she was going to make fun of all the nudity on her HBO show, "Girls" -- congratulations! You earned some...

The always-polarizing Lena Dunham hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, and if you bet in your “SNL” pool that she was going to make fun of all the nudity on her HBO show, “Girls” — congratulations! Yo...

The charm of ScHoolboy Q can be narrowed to one word, repeated multiple times over the hardest groove you can find. "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!" Who knows what it means, and really who cares? It's ScHoolboy's signature, an ...

Looking for the inspiration + resources to transform a boring bathroom into something that wows? Darlene Chimaliro and Caty Tillman of Studio MOD(ish) were tasked with adding some personality to a boring condo for a youn...

Jon Favreau's "Chef," which premiered at this year's South By Southwest Film Festival, is not just about chefs and food porn. It's about what happens when a creative person is forced to work within a corporate-mandated s...

It was a perfect "Winterreise" setting -- a dark winter's night, a small rustic hall with ideally intimate acoustics and the partnership of a wonderfully sensitive pianist. Bass-baritone Ryan McKinny wove his heartsick j...

Saturday night was either typical or atypical for The Orwells. Their thoroughly entertaining set at U Street Music Hall featured the audience regularly parading across the stage, thinly veiled insults directed at the clu...

If, like any sensible person, you love the string quartets of Joseph Haydn with a passion beyond all reason, you would have done well to be at the Library of Congress on Friday night. The Elias Quartet -- a young-ish, mu...

The series Faces is on Faith, a female greyhound, both beauty queen and racing dog. An "exceptional" animal which German photographer Julia Christe chose to emphasize in a series of portraits. Responding initially to an...

Brian d'Arcy James listens to the anthem "Who I'd Be" from the Broadway version of "Shrek" and hears Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." He convincingly mashed them together to wrap up his 90-minute concert Friday in the Ken...

There's just something so grown-up about a bar cart. A stylish one packed and stacked with delicious liquids to imbibe just totally throws off a "I've got my act together" kind of vibe. Not to mention it's a great additi...

Color warms, brightens and enlivens; it's why we often advocate for its frequent use! Adding in color with accessories, furniture and art is an easy way to create a color palette that fits your personality. But sometimes...