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In an intensely depressing sign of the times, the Lifetime Network brings us a made-for-TV movie about a college student who decides to serve as a surrogate for a wealthy couple to pay for tuition. "Sorority Surrogate" (...

Juanita Frady Walker of Raleigh shares an ingenious solution for welcoming wildlife.

Pity opéra bouffe. To those of us who love opera, it's delightful and melodious and frothy and fun, and Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" is among its frothiest and funnest representatives. To those who don't, it's an acqu...

Digital dynamics transform fabric trends for spring 2014.

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Dining room in Chapel Hill gets a multipurpose makeover.

Between Doritos trotting out Lady Gaga, Samsung tapping Jay-Z and Kanye West, and iTunes hosting Coldplay, corporate-sponsored music clearly dominated SXSW in 2014, but what I found most notable was the overwhelming hip-...

Project by: Rachel SeldinLocation: Mill Valley, California What do you do when a couple comes to you with two very opposing and different aesthetic ideas and a completely blank house that needs to be fixed up quickly bec...

“Divergent,” the YA dystopian film based on the hit book series, opens this weekend. The review are in and generally speaking they’re … not great. No surprise there: “Divergent” never really had a shot to sta...

Name: Jennie CainLocation: Athens, Georgia My home is in Athens, Georgia and is 900 square feet. It is a small brick house on one level with an attic. I chose to live here because it is a home built in the 1930s and is i...

You don't have to spend a lot of money to dramatically improve the look of a space, as proven by the kitchen Julia and her boyfriend share in Montreal. Some budget ideas, affordable products and a lot of DIY labor made t...

Is there anything worst than a too-dinky throw pillow drowning on a sofa sea? Want to make a big and soft impact on your seating this weekend? Wow guests with some potent and patterned softness? Banish boring when you go...

It might seem silly to devote an entire post to tabletop vignettes -- those stylish arrangements of art and items on credenzas, shelves, tables and more -- but it's actually not. Because vignettes can play a surprisingly...

With today's social media landscape, we tend to showcase much of our private life out in public, especially when it comes to home. When you love design and are proud of your decor and DIY accomplishments, it makes sense ...

Adorable Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen have uploaded the latest documentation of their best friendship. Collaborating in an attempt to break the Internet, they wore matching bowler hats and playfully called each ...

Step into the Black Cat on Friday night and take a whiff. Do you smell pizza? Or just the faint aroma of beer, cleaning product and the perverse commitment to a three-month-old joke? Tonight's headliner is the Pizza Unde...

This is the twenty-first installment in an ongoing series that explores drag culture and the nightlife scene in Brooklyn, N.Y. Over the past several years, following the large-scale exodus of artists across the East Rive...

Iconic L.A. street artist Shepard Fairey is expressing his love toward Chinese artist activist Ai Weiwei in the most Shepard Fairey way possible, turning Ai's beloved visage into an iconic poster. The image, rendered in ...

On March 15, Los Angeles' ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives opened its "EZTV: Video Transfer" exhibition, a screening series that explores the history of EZTV, a pioneering video space founded in West Hollywood in 1979...

Even though she's now a (semi) retiree, Elaine Stritch proves she hasn't lost a bit of the sass, talent and tenacity which made her a stage and screen legend in an interview with Pride Source's Chris Azzopardi. Still, th...

You might not be familiar with the name Mary Blair, but it's more than possible you're aware of the work the late artist has produced and inspired. Mary Blair, Concept of Alice looking at the White Rabbit's house, ca. 19...