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Architizer is pondering which neighborhoods in the country have the worst acronyms, and it's an East versus West battle. Some gems from both coasts include: SaMo (Santa Monica), LoLo (Lower Lower East Side), and NoPa (No...

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation, with its new museum recently opened in Manhattan, often speaks of its "stakeholders": family members of victims, survivors, first responders, recovery workers, loca...

Little Grey Line, started by N.C. State designer Jessica Johnson Moore, repurposes men's shirts into garments for children.

Around the world, artists come together and decide to work, create, and at times even live under the same roof. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, including community-building, artistic authorship, and self-stag...

This month, the Kennedy Center is putting on a choral festival called "Voices of America." It was supposed to be a big initiative, filling the city of Washington with song, coinciding with the annual meeting of the servi...

Though it's repped names like "The City Of Big Shoulders" and "The Hog Butcher Of The World," Chicagoans have Norman Mailer to thank for the much rosier superlative of the "Great American City." In 1969, the famous write...

It’s less than a week after Netflix started streaming the second season of its runaway hit Orange Is the New Black and fans are already craving more from the women of Litchfield. Since season three won’t likely debut...

Life on the International Space Station requires some adjusting. Just ask astronaut Reid Wiseman, who, luckily for us, is chronicling his first time in outer space on Twitter. Wiseman isn't the first astronaut to send Ea...

I've been working in a small gallery that's all about social media and using it to promote their gallery and artists. I, on the other hand, choose to have a very minimal online presence. I only recently got a Linkedin ac...

The dads on TV and in the movies are a special group of guys. Some are "Joe 6-Pack," while others are "Mr. Businessman." Some are doctors, lawyers, or dockworkers. Some leave you wondering how they ever got, much less ke...

I recently got wind of a weekly bourbon and chocolate pairing event at the iconic Mayflower Hotel in my hometown of D.C. I was intrigued, not so much because of the alcohol, but because there was chocolate involved and t...

Every Thursday, Post TV critic Hank Stuever hosts an online chat to talk all things TV. On the minds of readers this week: Giving up on "Louie," the historical accuracy of the costumes on "Turn" and more thoughts about M...

"Greta Investigates: O.J. Simpson" (Fox News Channel at 7 p.m.) joins the onslaught of O.J. Simpson trial retrospectives this week. In a one-hour special, Van Susteren revisits her exclusive 2004 interview with Simpson a...

Rob Riggle is a rarity in that he’s had two long and successful careers: as a Marine, which took him to hotspots like Liberia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and also as a comedian who cut his teeth at the Upright Citizens Br...

The Senate confirmed Jane Chu as the 11th chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday. Chu, president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, was nominated in February by Pr...

The Senate confirmed Jane Chu as the 11th chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday. Chu, president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, was nominated in February by Pr...

"Flipping houses" just took on a whole new meaning thanks to Instagrammer Geof Newsum's Pinterest-perfect project. Known as #roofline_envelope, the series was born after Newsum took a simple photo of the roof of a nearby...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- When Lina Safar moved from her native Syria to Tampa with her U.S.-born husband in 2010, she assumed she would return occasionally, see her family, walk in her neighborhood and shop at her favorite ma...

The zookeepers at the Oakland Zoo are crossing their fingers as they introduce current lemur resident Anthony to Dern, a rare blue-eyed lemur who relocated to Oakland from the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, TX. Blue-eyed lemu...

The Grand Budapest Hotel is not so much a visual movie as a furnished movie. And what's it furnished with? Neologisms made up of Mitteleuropaische sounding words (a joke that begins to pale), bloody noses, pastry from a ...

There is an easy way to find a great gift for your fitness-inspired dad this Father's Day. Here is my formula for getting the gift that will land you huge hugs from him and help him get fit and stay healthy: The gift has...

It's official. That little camera lens on the back of your smart phone can capture way more than your Vegas trip or Saturday brunch. The results of this year's iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) are in and, as usual, ...