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New runways, larger trade shows, and a bounty of brands marked this the busiest year yet for Miami swim week. We took stock of the new trends. At Luli Fama, tasseled ends added flirty movement to the designer’s sexy su...

Whether in South Beach or Palm Beach, fall's accessories turn up the heat. Dress, Reed Krakoff ($1,790). Saks Fifth Avenue, Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-865-1100. Rose-gold Arceau Le Temps Suspendu watch, He...

London's Notting Hill Carnival is one of the largest street festivals in the world. Starting its life as a local festival set up by the West Indian community of the Notting Hill area, it has now become a full-blooded Car...

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Screens. Bright fingers that claw at our eyes. Expressions of tenderness, movements of thought, sexual fantasies, our greatest battles. More and more, we occur on screens over invisible waves. That metamodernism has been...

More than 4,500 people gathered Monday for the funeral of Michael Brown, the unarmed teen shot to death by a police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo. Activists, politicians, and high-profile speakers inclu...

For everyone who thinks it's hard to sing and dance at the same time and that everyone uses a backing track during awards shows, just listen to Beyonce's isolated vocal track from her 16-minute set that ended the 2014 MT...

Bike commuting sometimes feels like you need eyes in the back of your head. Backtracker is a radar-based bike light that wants to be your extra eyeballs. The light on the back flashes more frequently as cars get closer, ...

I have a history with researching music schools as a prospective student. Seeing the recent ranking of the "Top 10 Music Colleges in the United States" posted by USA Today brought back the feelings of confusion I experie...

Maloyn Chatelin, Brest France 2011, digital C-print, 49 x 35 Inch Act is the result of Darzacq's long work with handicapped persons. Though some of the subjects are also actors, athletes and dancers, each has asserted th...

Officials in Dare County are planning to expand the shoreline at Buxton in hopes it will keep hurricanes and winter storms from eating away at NC 12.

Generally, it's not a good idea for playwrights to direct their own work--or maybe anyone else's, for that matter. One of the few exceptions is Alan Ayckbourn, who almost always directs the first production of anything h...

From The Kitchn ' Culinary Cycling: Tips for Packing the Best Bike Picnic

Northern California residents are reeling from Sunday's 6.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest quake to hit the Bay Area in 25 years. The earthquake hit early Sunday morning around 50 miles north of Sacramento and lasted ...

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is hope. A New Zealand mother uses photography to show her daughter that the possibilities for her life are endless. Photographer Holly Spring's daughter, Violet, was b...

Britney Spears responds to Katy Perry's VMA throwback outfit Of course she loved it. There was major fashion déj vu on Sunday night when Katy Perry showed up to the MTV VMAs with rapper Riff Raff in matching denim-on-de...

Anyone who gardens knows that there is a wonderful hopefulness in the smooth, black earth of a freshly planted plot, great joy in those first shoots that appear in spring, and an immense satisfaction that comes from seei...

Does your small space need more closed storage and places to put books? Aust & Amelung, a furniture and interiors design studio based in Germany, created Book Box to do both. The shelf uses a hardcover book as a sliding ...

Beyonce may have walked away from the VMAs with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and a 16-minute performance under her belt, but Nicki Minaj had a few career highs of her own. After delighting the audience with h...

Rebecca was drawn to the simple lines of this dresser and the unexpectedly awesome brass pulls, but the finish was just wasn't worthy of her baby's room. Well, it is now.

If you’ve ever noticed rough, white or red bumps on the back of your arm -- don’t worry, you aren’t turning into a chicken; you likely have keratosis pilaris. It may sound scary, but this common skin condition is n...