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His bouffant has toned down considerably since its hirsute heyday in the late '80s, but Al Sharpton has not. During a lively panel discussion preceding a Tuesday screening of the James Brown biopic "Get On Up" at the New...

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Jeff Friesen isn't looking to take over the world, but he is looking to re-create it -- and he's doing it brick-by-brick. As the creator of the wildly popular LEGO scenes "The Great LEGO North," "The 50 States of LEGO" a...

“Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can.” Watercolor by Striped Cat Studio for Glitter Guide

Dakota Fanning captured the world's attention as Sean Penn's bright-eyed daughter Lucy in the 2001 film "I Am Sam." Since then, the 20-year-old has nabbed role after role, transitioning from child actress to full-blown m...

When it comes to me and s'mores, there is no love missing. I am going to tell you something embarrassing. I think we all have an embarrassing snack or treat that we consume--a dessert that is sort of humiliating because ...

Veronica Roth's YA dystopian series Divergent has endured comparisons to Suzanne Collins's wildly successful The Hunger Games series since the first installment, Divergent, was published in 2011. However, in an interview...

When I travel, I always have a sketchbook with me and I like doing small studies like this one in gouache. Sketchbooks are a great way to reclaim your time when you are waiting. Here's the plane I was waiting to board. H...

London is a city with so many vibrant neighborhoods that there is one for every type of personality. I moved to London four years ago with no clue as to where I would end up. But with a little exploring, I found my fit, ...

We now live in a post-2013 VMAs world, where music videos featuring Miley's tongue and dancing models are considered kind of "meh." Pharrell's new video for "Come Get It Bae" just happens to star both (plus a sugar shake...

From books to television to the classroom, "Game of Thrones" cannot be stopped. That's right. The hit HBO series inspired by George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has found its way into University of Virginia class...

Social media has taken over life as we know it. If you're not on one of the 10 or so outlets dedicated to over-sharing, then you're just not in the know. Even world governments are on social media, sharing behind-the-sce...

The Bearded Ladies cabaret has an carved out an avid theater following in Philadelphia in just a couple of years. The nine-member troupe explores the many traditions and forms the art of cabaret can take, even for the op...

When Wes Armson saw his two sons cracking a smile, letting out a laugh or even sneezing for the first time, he wanted to remember it forever. He'd sometimes close his eyes, he said, in an attempt to store these little mi...

It seems natural that the Trump family, who has made exclusivity their business, broke ground Wednesday on their D.C. hotel with gold-plated shovels. After all, the family has labeled Trump International Hotel, Washingto...

In the United States it is illegal to buy or sell any crib that was made before July 23, 2010. Every crib that has drop-down or fold down sides has been recalled along with millions of others for reasons as varied as the...

Adorable architecture alert: graphic designer Matteo Muci animated some of the most famous buildings of the 20th century being built. From Farnsworth House to Fallingwater, take a minute and try to guess which iconic bui...

Landlords always have to balance the need to raise rent (to keep up with the rising costs of owning a building), with the need to keep apartments rented and vacancy rates down. This usually means that, whenever possible,...

Tapman, a dancing crime fighter with toes of steel, needs to be rescued by a daring sound designer. Talk this superhero down from a perilous ledge of elevator music and garbled audio, and "The Adventures of Tapman," whic...

During the years she worked as a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas, Melissa Ritz lived a lifestyle many would envy. She earned six figures. She bought herself a three-bedroom, three-bathroom house and filled it with nice th...

In the United States alone, consumers toss away more than 60 million plastic bottles each year. It's a staggering statistic, one that caught the attention of the architecture firm STUDIOKCA. In an attempt to highlight Am...