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Although our experiences with staircases are fleeting by design, there is still pressure to make them beautiful. Because they're seen from multiple rooms and different levels, there's a lot of room for a great architect ...

Meet Rauf Yasit, aka Rubber Legz. It's not difficult to see where the nickname comes from. The professional dancer has made quite a name for himself by contorting his limbs into seemingly impossible positions, testing th...

We tend to ignore the corners in our homes. They are weird in-between places that don't have an automatic solution, and wind up in awkward decorating limbo, both overlooked and undervalued. What are you supposed to do wi...

It's been 12 years since Ari Roth, artistic director of Theater J, was able to spend the first Monday in September kicking back at a Labor Day picnic. Since 2002, he has spent the holiday at the Kennedy Center, where the...

This New York City artist is thinking outside the (cereal) box. Sarah Rosado makes portraits of major performers out of cornflakes. With works that feature greats like John Lennon and Elvis Presley to latter-day stars li...

View Photo Gallery --The 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Full Recap of the 2014 Emmy Awards While there was a lot of concern about what would happen to TV audience numbers if the Emmy Awards took place on a Monday in August, ...

View Photo Gallery --The 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Full Recap of the 2014 Emmy Awards While there was a lot of concern about what would happen to TV audience numbers if the Emmy Awards took place on a Monday in August, ...

"It wasn't only about me. It was a moment, when a line had to held when you could not conceive the fight", says the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rusdie, in this outtake from a longer interview about his life and ...

One hundred and eighteen years ago today, Peggy Guggenheim came into this world. Eight decades later, she was gone, her ashes scattered next to the buried bodies of her 14 beloved Lhasa Apsos. As with everything she coll...

From "Breaking Bad" to "breaking" websites; Aaron Paul's Emmy speech crashes wife's charitable website Last night at the Emmys, the former "Breaking Bad" actor Aaron Paul devoted much of his moment in the spotlight to so...

If you’re trying to incorporate more fruit and vegetables in your diet, this is the perfect time of year--produce is in season. The same goes for feeding the younger diners in your home. If you've been in negotiations ...

Name: March Location: Bethesda, Maryland Last year I packed up our four kids and maybe 20% of our furniture and we left our big house, and everything in it, to be sold. At the time, it felt like - it was - an enormous lo...

Originally posted on Kirkus. Because it's sold so many copies, a bestselling book appeals to many readers. But not all. Maybe you don't want to read a book about a man who "lacked a striking personality, or any qualities...

I'm excited for fall, but I'm not ready to give up summer eating. I love how low-maintenance and delicious it can be. Labor Day may be right around the corner, but my stomach doesn't need to know that. View the original ...

Few actors have reinvented themselves more onscreen than Helen Mirren. The Oscar-winning star has played a sorceress, a Roman empress, a housekeeper, Queen Elizabeth II, an assassin and, in her latest film, "The Hundred-...

From The Kitchn ' 10 Great Uses for Your Ice Cube Trays, Aside from Making Ice

Your kids are headed back to school. If you're thinking of sending the kids back with a gift for teacher, I have a gift idea that teachers will appreciate. It's no secret teachers can use more school supplies. They often...

Four years later, #Donald4SpiderMan is finally a success! While the "Community" actor and rapper's fan-spurred Twitter campaign fell short in its original goal, the role going to Andrew Garfield, Glover is set to voice t...

As school year schedules are finalized, parents may find themselves fielding their kids' requests for music lessons. While the "Mozart effect" has been debunked in recent years (no, playing Don Giovanni for your child wo...

Leave it to "Orange Is The New Black" actress and advocate Laverne Cox to turn a painful personal story into a poignant teachable moment. In this video from Keppler Speakers, Cox describes a moment in which two men haras...

And the show with the most wins at the 2014 Emmy Awards goes to..."Sherlock"? Indeed: "Sherlock: The Last Vow (Masterpiece)" which airs on BBC and PBS, shocked everyone at the awards ceremony on Monday as it steamrolled ...

And the show with the most wins at the 2014 Emmy Awards goes to…”Sherlock”? Indeed: “Sherlock: The Last Vow (Masterpiece)” which airs on BBC and PBS, shocked everyone at the awards ceremony on Monday as it stea...