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Maybe you're making room for a new baby's nursery or that cave of collectibles you've always wanted. Or maybe you just like living small. No matter what your motivation is for maximizing your space, the best way to do it...

Kinston chef Vivian Howard and Durham documentary filmmaker Cynthia Hill won a Peabody award for "A Chef's Life," a cooking and food culture show that airs on PBS.

Cinco de Mayo in the United States is a fairly well-celebrated holiday, whether you have Mexican heritage or not. The drink of choice, of course, is the margarita and often…

A misunderstanding about who would direct Taylor Mac's play "Hir" (pronounced "Here") has prompted the New York-based actor and playwright to withdraw his work from Studio Theatre's 2014-15 season. The plans for Mac's pl...

A misunderstanding about who would direct Taylor Mac’s play “Hir” (pronounced “Here”) has prompted the New York-based actor and playwright to withdraw his work from Studio Theatre’s 2014-15 season. The plans ...

Consider yourself warned: This clip will probably bum you out that time travel still isn't a thing. On the heels of the passing of Grammy-winning house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles, the Media Burn video archive shared ...

BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1940-1964 *** 1/2 out of **** A SECOND CHANCE ** out of **** BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1940-1964 *** 1/2 out of **** THE TOWN HALL Broadway By The Year has become an institution for the past 14 years, a c...

A rapidly dialed phone, the pulse of a busy signal, and the electronic chatter of two modems talking: While most of the crowd was too young to know those sounds, it was an appropriate introduction for Childish Gambino, w...

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." -- Rumi As an artform, photography's magic lies in its unique choreography of documentation and interpretation. This paradox unfolds as the choices the artist makes are o...

"Community" (NBC at 8 p.m.) is going to look very different tonight when it gets the animation treatment in a special G.I. Joe-inspired episode entitled "G.I. Jeff." Raj wrestles with dating two women while Sheldon, in t...

A recent collaboration suggests that we should explicitly recognize historic patterns of pedestrian city settings in contemporary urban design and policies. Historic Cours Mirabeau, a 440m walkable main street in Aix-en-...

Most people who drive to work drive alone. The three-wheeled, two-passenger Elio is technically classified as a motorcycle, but is fully enclosed and includes all the trappings of a car. Elio can drive 672 miles on a tan...

Don't you love when old and new come together to create something wonderful? Hungarian graphic artist Zsolt Ekho Farkas was on vacation with his wife when she pointed out Gyula Benczúr's painting "Budavár repossession"...

Text messaging has gotten approximately 1000 times better since the creation of emojis. Can you even remember a time when you had to send texts without the help of tiny cartoon animals and food items? As it turns out, em...

"I wanted to be less judgmental." That simple sentiment was the impetus behind Everyone Matters -- a global awareness campaign which advocates for every person's right to dignity and respect, without judgment or shame. A...

This week marks the 15th anniversary of "10 Things I Hate About You," the high-school romcom detailing the complicated love affairs of sisters Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) and Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles). Also starring Heath...

Some people can't just let things drop. They just can't let them go. In some cases passion and commitment to a higher cause keeps them hanging on. Such is the case with National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig. On Ap...

Tiffany loves thrift shopping and regularly brings home furniture that's seen better days. This $5 table looked a little worse for wear, but nothing that a couple of coats of white paint couldn't fix. When disaster struc...

Raleigh designer Nichole Turner's business South Sail specializes in colorful bow sashes that can be wrapped around the waist of a dress.

The word "feminist" has a bad reputation, but a new campaign from the Feminist Collective at McGill Law School shows us that the "f-word" encompasses a huge range of people. A series of photographs posted on the McGill F...

It is unusual for a designer garment to make its debut in Washington rather than a fashion capital like New York or Paris. Guests at the fourth annual Great Ladies Luncheon, co-hosted by Saks, were privy to such a rare o...

It is unusual for a designer garment to make its debut in Washington rather than a fashion capital like New York or Paris. Guests at the fourth annual Great Ladies Luncheon, co-hosted by Saks, were privy to such a rare o...