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Though he's only a sophomore, Walker Harnden's college career is already starting on a high note -- literally. According to the Lake Wiley Pilot, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts student set a Guinness...

Amy Marshall Photo: Lois Greenfield 1. Treat class, and your every opportunity to dance, as a gift, as a special time for you. 2. Leave your emotional baggage outside. Let class be your chance to think only about you. Le...

An apartment therapists confession: I really need a new mattress and have been putting it off for no good reason other than that its just one of those shopping experiences that friends seem to invariably end up stressing...

Hey isn't that . . . actress Garcelle Beauvais enjoying the spring weather on the mall Tuesday. Our tipster spotted the former "Jamie Foxx Show" star with her 6-year-old twin boys, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas Nilon, hoppi...

The Sanders Portrait of Shakespeare, 1603 (Canadian Conservation Institute). How can any of us find the words to wish a happy 450th birthday to the single most significant, elegant, funny, wise and human writer ever to u...

From The Kitchn ' Kitchen Before & After: A Cramped NYC Kitchen Gets a Chic Makeover

Sometimes you really have to listen to your parents, even if you're a 17-year-old superstar named Lorde. The "Royals" singer tweeted Monday night that she would postpone her Australian tour due to a "nasty" chest infecti...

"How do we hold a moment?" That is the seemingly simple question posed and pondered within "Still Life," an incredible work directed by Charles Frank and Jake Oleson and posted by ZANDRAK. The short film, "shot guerrilla...

Shannon needed an easy way to update a dresser she found boring, and cycled through several ideas of what to do with it. She has tons of materials stored at home, so the solution came one day when she simply opened a dra...

Canadian programmer and new dad Stephen McLaughlin took a lot of flack from easily scandalized observers over his choice to outsource his daughter's name on the unruly forums of reddit. Now, four months after the voting ...

Canadian programmer and new dad Stephen McLaughlin took a lot of flack from easily scandalized observers over his choice to outsource his daughter's name on the unruly forums of reddit. Now, four months after the voting ...

That New York cliche about running into people you know, even while living in a city of 8 million people? It's true: While waiting inside the Bedford Ave. train station in Brooklyn on March 27, I ran into one of my co-wo...

The author Toni Morrison once offered the following wise advice: "If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." I have recently been in touch with the authors of three...

Lili from Belgrade from Jasmina Tesanovic on Vimeo. Live performance at Berlin Transmediale 2014, pacifist remake of Lili Marlene song. I am just a girl from outskirts of Belgrade all my loving goes one day it's gonna en...

Our landing strip in the old telephone niche. My house was built back when small space living was just living. Nobody had ever heard of the word 'McMansion', and the recommended average square feet per person was 316 (Ar...

David Foster Wallace's family is not happy with Hollywood's plans to turn his life into a movie. Funnyman Jason Segel stars as the famous author in the upcoming film "The End of the Tour." Currently in production, the fl...

Green buildings are more common these days, but some are truly innovating in the space. American Institute of Architects' Committee on the Environment chose ten examples that show an integrative approach to sustainable d...

Typography is a powerful invention. It is, after all, the design mechanism that brings us the words of novelists and writers in an aesthetically pleasing fashion. But can fonts be more "sustainable" than others, wagging ...

At Peaches HotHouse in Brooklyn, owners Ben Grossman and Craig Samuel, along with chef Rodney Frazer, added a dose of one of the hottest chilies in the world, ghost chilies.

Oh, be still my heart- Julia's 415-square-foot entry from 2013's Small Cool Contest brilliantly combines everything I love about pure white home decor with everything I love about deep, dark elements. The white and black...

Even before color photography was publicly available, one enterprising firm found a way to provide the world with the earliest glimpse of North America's extraordinary landscapes in color. These intricately-colored image...

Ethan Drath, the owner of Georgetown's prepster-supply emporium Sherman Pickey, and his wife, Lindsey, snapped up a $1.4 million Wesley Heights home in February, according to public records. Drath is the grandson of Viol...