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Raleigh Vintage and the Poppycock Vintage Hat Shop aren't thrift stores. The local owners of those shops fetch top dollar for handpicked, quality items, which are lovingly cleaned and repaired,

Mel B is back for her second season as a judge on America's Got Talent, joining Howie Mandel, Howard Stern, and Heidi Klum for season 9 of NBC's hit variety competition show. The beloved Spice Girl, who released her late...

Beloved authors Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Doris Kearns Goodwin and more share their summer reading picks. Chris Bohjalian (Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands) "Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks is riveting. You'll forget to...

This article is part of my exclusive Parade.com series featuring the stars of the Venetian Las Vegas comedy series Lipshtick: The Perfect Shade of Stand Up. Female comics have long battled the fallacy that their male cou...

After the embarrassing (I really can't come up with the proper word) beatdown our Brazilian friends suffered on Tuesday, I thought I’d offer some comfort food from South America's largest country. Brazilian food is ama...

From The Kitchn ' 5 Time-Saving Tips for a Diverse, Self-Sufficient Pantry

Sergeant Larry Reid Jr. just might be the flyest photographer you'll ever encounter. Quite literally. A photographer for the United States Air Force, Reid spends his days with the Thunderbirds, an elite group of F-16 dem...

Consider a venn diagram of Medicine and Art, left and right brained. I reside in the intersection, searching for my true north in two circular worlds. My love for art started early and my parents always encouraged my ini...

On Kawara, the 81-year-old Japanese painter and conceptual artist whose fascination with human mortality was legend, has died, The Huffington Post has learned. The news -- first circulated on Twitter -- was confirmed by ...

We've all been there at one time or another. You're sitting at a restaurant with some friends, glancing over the menu. You look down and -- bam -- there it is: a word you have absolutely no idea how to pronounce. In the ...

You might want to sit down for this one -- ideally, in a seat with a tray table. That's where artist Joe Butcher (aka October Jones), from Birmingham, England, hid inspirational drawings for unsuspecting travelers during...

What if you showed up for work? I mean really showed up. Remember when "Take Our Daughters to Work" happened? Today it's called, "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work." The idea is for children to explore the idea of havi...

Birchbox goes out of the box: the subscription beauty service is opening its first retail store on Friday. The SoHo location is organized like its website, including categories like "cheek" and "second-day hair." There w...

The artist Swoon is known for both her street art and her performance projects that involve group voyages, such as the "Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea," (2008) a journey along the Hudson River, and the "Swimming C...

Balance is the key to using bold strokes of color…

The official start of the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour began Tuesday with a showing from Ovation. Daniel Radcliffe, star of the network’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook, spoke to press about the sh...

BBC America announced today that both Orphan Black and Broadchurch have been picked up for additional seasons to premiere in 2015. BBC America GM Perry Simon made the announcements during its TCA session today at the Bev...

Cynthia Sitton, Jung's Dream, 2014, oil on linen, 36 x 84 in. There have been a lot of articles and blogs lately wherein the value of an art education is called into question. People with art degrees can't get jobs in th...

I understand that conductor Edwin Outwater, who directs San Francisco Symphony's summer concerts, went to college with Thomas Lauderdale, who founded and leads the one-of-a-kind group Pink Martini. That relationship is p...

In the summer season of transforming robots and mutating superheroes, the motion-captured ape is king. Director Matt Reeves’ and 20th Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes arrives in theaters this weekend, fol...

Treadmills seem downright ho-hum these days, but before the era of "random hills" and heart rate training zones, indoor runners had to make their own fun. Luckily, they had people like Rosemary Andree -- a classical danc...

It is unarguable that Renaissance art erased Jesus' Jewish identity. Just walk through any museum gallery of Renaissance artworks or look at images of Renaissance paintings in books and you will see a Christian Jesus wit...