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In a weird way, anticipating "Game of Thrones" is even better than watching "Game of Thrones." Yes, it's the best show on TV. But the kingdoms, the characters and the story lines are so endless and enticing that you can ...

Alessandra Kurr. Designer. In 2007, London-based photographer Ben Hopper started "Natural Beauty," a photo series designed to challenge what he described as the societal "brainwashing" done by the beauty industry. Now, n...

GEOQUIZ: To which continent would you travel to visit the Drakensberg Mountains?

Last month, the photographer Pieter Hugo went to southern Rwanda, two decades after nearly a million people were killed during the country's genocide, and captured a series of unlikely, almost unthinkable tableaus.

"La Commedia," by Louis Andriessen, is one of the most important operas written in the past 20 years. It won a Grawemeyer Award, one of composition's plum prizes, three years after its 2008 premiere. Although the opera h...

The city will mark the completion of the Walnut Creek Greenway trail with a dedication ceremony for the final leg on Tuesday.

Since Deutsche Grammaphon/Universal Music released conductor André de Ridder and the Copenhagen Phil's St. Carolyn by the Sea -- a collection of orchestral compositions by both The National's Bryce Dessner and Radiohead...

The two-hour special "The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over, a Great Performances Special" (WETA at 8 p.m.) recalls the band at the forefront of the 1960s British invasion, with archival footage from its debut on "The Ed Su...

Nope, HBO Go crashing wasn't really a big deal for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones," at least in terms of ratings. About 6.6 million people tuned in for the fantasy epic's fourth season premiere, an enormous number ...

Hey, remember the '90s? Of course, you do! But, as it turns out, you don't remember all of it because you were probably on speed the whole time... at least if you were a child actor in a Nickelodeon show, you were. This ...

Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during April, O2 Fitness will host "Shape Up Downtown" in downtown Raleigh.

Not all of us who work from home are lucky enough to have an extra room to devote to a home office, so we utilize what space we do have. Culled from our House Tours, here few great home offices that don't sacrifice style...

Seems like there are tons of new tech Kickstarter campaigns every day, but which ones are worth backing? Design Milk has a roundup of five hot products and services, including XY, jewelry-esque tags that help you find yo...

A.C.'s strategy for making his soft-spoken voice heard and tactful ways to deal with twice-told tales.

The bride and her groom are posing for photos near the head banquet table. "1, 2, 3, smile." A Virginian in a navy sportcoat and khaki pants says, "Your sister is quite lovely," as he shakes the hand of the bride's broth...

Evan Peters plays Quicksilver in "X-Men: Days of Future Past," and while there have been glimpses of his character in the film's marketing campaign, the best look yet at the new mutant has arrived via Hardee's. Peters' Q...

There's no doubt about it: candles are cozy. The following are some guidelines for making decorating with candles as aesthetic as possible. These suggestions are just a starting point; decorating with candles really is v...

Sometimes it's the simplest ideas that end up being the most magical. Take this for instance: film a man walking backwards through a foreign city and show it in reverse. That is the very premise for this work of wonder a...

From generation to generation, a Davie citrus family has preserved its Passover traditions.

Singer Chris Brown and his bodyguard will have separate trials on misdemeanor assault charges, a D.C. Superior Court judge ordered on Monday, our colleague Keith Alexander reports. Brown and Chris Hollosy were both charg...

Laugh it up, fuzzball: According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Peter Mayhew will reprise his role of Chewbacca in "Star Wars: Episode VII." Mayhew played the Wookiee in four "Star Wars" films: "Episode III," "Episode ...

The New Year is aging rapidly, and we’ve broken all of our well-intentioned resolutions by now. So let me propose a new one, at least for wine fans. Repeat after me: “At least once a month I will taste a wine I’ve ...