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Two decades ago, the world lost a 27-year-old musician whose band was on almost every radio station, walkman, CD player and speaker across the globe. We are, of course, speaking about Kurt Cobain, lead singer, guitarist ...

BENICIA, Calif. - Heading south on Interstate 680, just past the Benicia city limit sign, you'll see a giant billboard, all blue sky and golden sunsets, touting this very city…

When photographer Rebecca Leimbach found out she couldn't have any more children, she counted on the family's English Bulldog, Lola, to keep her only-daughter, 7-year-old Harper, company. The BFFs are now inseparable, an...

Shigeru Ban, the eminent Japanese architect who has pioneered the use of unorthodox materials, including paper, in construction and design, has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession’s highest hon...

When a headlining band plays at 25-minute set -- as the Vertical Scratchers did at DC9 Sunday night -- there are bound to be a few audience members who leave with the feeling, to paraphrase a famous rock-and-roll singer,...

When Darren Aronofsky was 13, he wrote a poem inspired by the biblical story of Noah that won an award from the United Nations and was part of a lifelong quest to bring the story to the big screen. After 10 years of tryi...

Historian Simon Schama's "The Story of the Jews" (MPT and WETA at 8 p.m.) explores the many effects Jewish history and culture has had on the world. This two-part special begins 3,000 years ago with the emergence of a tr...

How happy is your country? By analyzing Instagram photos, Jetpac calculates how often people smile in their shots. Brazilians have the biggest grins, smiling in 60.5% of photos. The US smiled 29% of the time, and Japan c...

If "Dancing With the Stars" ever needs a ringer to suit up in a sparkle tux, may it turn to Kevin Canevari. Canevari is the Mercer University senior basketball player who turned his team's Cinderella moment into a social...

"Graffiti is like flowers. They are beautiful, but they don't live long." An interview with Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab about the role of art during the Arab spring: "You cannot resist ideas. They can tr...

Joss Whedon's "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" hit Aosta, Italy on Monday for a day of filming that included the franchise's two newest characters: Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. The twins, played by Elizabeth Olsen and Aar...

If you had the opportunity to give advice to your younger self, what would it be? Well, you may get some ideas from Josh Hutcherson. After 21 years of experiences, the "Hunger Games" actor imparts his wisdom on us and it...

A sampling of international female artists at the New York Armory Show.

Everybody knows that the New Yorker is just as famous for its legendary--and often legendarily inscrutable--cartoons as it is for its journalism. On Sunday, "60 Minutes" looked at the process that goes into selecting the...

Many of us spend extra time and money sourcing organic foods. Yet if you polled those same people, I imagine you would find the majority don't think twice about organic fabrics. So what's the big deal, you might ask? It'...

Some people juggle. Some people do celebrity imitations. Frannie Potts, the kooky heroine of the one-woman play "Loveland," has her own entertainment specialty. "I do facial gesturing to sound," she explains brightly at ...

Museum-goers were treated to a shocking display at Florence's Uffizi Gallery on Saturday when a visitor stripped naked before Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus." As the naked man faced the Botticelli painting, he struc...

The following article is provided by Rolling Stone. Tyler Glenn -- lead singer for Provo, Utah New Wave-pop quartet Neon Trees and a Mormon his entire life -- reveals he is gay in the new issue of Rolling Stone (on stand...

Jimmy Palmaro is walking from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., to the Colony South Brooklyn Houses -- a not-for-profit which offers humanitarian services -- where he volunteers by teaching an after-school program. As he appro...

Kick back on the deck under an umbrella and watch boats glide by on the Intercoastal with a plate of conch fritters at Jimbo’s Sandbar. Diners come for “redneck cuisine” including gator bites, peel and eat shrimp, ...

Jazz Fest 2014 has recently announced the 2014 lineup. Rest assured, the well-rounded New Orleans Jazz Heritage Society has programmed something for everyone. Headliners include Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Kahn, Branford Ma...

Thor's hammer is clearly one of the coolest superhero weapons of all time, but what if it's actually too good to be true? Many Marvel fans incorrectly believe that Thor's hammer, Mjölnir, was forged from a dying star. N...