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Today's "Look for Less" is brought to us by Alberto's little home, a finalist in our 2014 Small Cool Contest. His style and color choices make his 800-square-foot space look not only sleek and calm, but also much larger ...

People may know Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm, the commander of the Unsullied on "Game of Thrones." Soon enough, they will know him by the name Raleigh Ritchie, Anderson's music moniker. The combination of the characters R...

Lukas Moodysson is known for his moving cinematic debut, Fucking Amal (1998), which was retitled Show Me Love in English, and Together (2000). The writer and director's latest film, We Are The Best!, is inspired by his w...

Last year, when the decade-old, much beloved Silverdocs Documentary Festival became AFI Docs, moved most of its operations from Silver Spring, Md., to downtown Washington and did away with many of the filmmaker programs ...

Kara Walker, the black artist who is known, loved and sometimes begrudged for making slavery-inspired silhouettes, hasn't said an awful lot in public about about her latest work, "A Subtlety: Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby....

Our earlier discussion about why you should never apologize to your guests for the state of your home sparked some debate about just how much prep is really necessary before welcoming strangers chez toi. Reader Saseem Fr...

"Punk as f--k" isn't typically how leading theoretical chemists are referred to in the media. But this week, Dr. David Glowacki, a respected American chemist and Royal Society research fellow in London, earned that descr...

After moving roughly eight times in its nearly 40-year history, the Washington Project for the Arts, a nonprofit organization devoted to contemporary art and artists, is putting down longer-term roots in Washington's U S...

We wish every trapeze performance were this mesmerizing. The artistic technology installation in the video above blends a trapeze artist's movements with stunning audio and visual effects. The project, called Ljós, made...

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has bought a 10,127-square-foot Tudor revival in Bantam, Conn. Rye House was built in 1908 and designed by Wilson Eyre, an architect and founder of House & Garden magazine. Cooper paid anywhere...

There's a new viral video making the rounds featuring British R&B supernova Sam Smith performing a slowed-down live cover of Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know." Smith's version is a funeral dirge, slow and inconsolably ...

It isn't Hermes scarves or miniature Eiffel Towers that call out, "Take me home" when we're wandering around Paris. That's too bad as they're easier to shlep back to New York than the Quimper pottery, Provencal tableclot...

When there's a kitchen fire, who you gonna call? Your two dachshunds, obviously. This vine from Crusoe The Celebrity Dachshund is a glorious six seconds of canine absurdity, in which Crusoe and his twin half-brother, Oak...

De Temps Antan. Photo Courtesy of De Temps Antan. Here's a rundown of recent Canadian releases, many of which I picked up at the Folk Alliance conference back in February. Let's begin with a big event in Canadian folk re...

Here we have a response from J.K. Rowling as to what "Harry Potter" would look like from Draco Malfoy's perspective. The beloved author wrote back to a mere muggle with a screen shot of a Tumblr post, chronicling how the...

Wait 'til you get a load of these pictures from the world premiere of 1989's "Batman." Tim Burton's film debuted in theaters 25 years ago today, and the blockbuster helped usher in this current era of superhero franchise...

Photographer Gus Petro has shown us what London might look like if it were placed on Portugal's rugged Atlantic facing coast, instead of the more temperate River Thames. Petro became an overnight Internet sensation last ...

Denis Villeneuve proved himself to be one of Hollywood's hottest new directors with his excellent 2013 thriller Prisoners. Though he has been making films since 1994, the director finally had a breakthrough hit that not ...

If your grandparents had video games, we now know how they would have looked. A new game called "Cuphead," which is set to be released in 2015, is animated in the style of a 1930s cartoon. In fact, it was created the sam...

Have you got a little one in your house for whom this is their very first World Cup? A future soccer star? A football fiend? Want to deck out their room with soccer stuff, but wanting to avoid that ubiquitous soccer lamp...

Bike share programs have taken off worldwide, but the city of Paris has something that others don't: bikes for tykes. P'tit Velib offers four models aimed at two to eight year-olds, with the smallest not having any pedal...