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Nunzio Scordo's original Southern menu has been altered to include trendy mainstream dishes like banh mi and pork belly tacos. Still, pretty much everything that comes out of his kitchen…

A volcano just killed us with cuteness. Pixar's newest short film, "Lava," about a lonely volcano in the midst of a million-year search for someone to "lava," is the most charming volcano love story we've seen since -- w...

Spread your family activities into the middle of the week with visits to farmers markets, museums and even a rodeo.

It is a much thought about and much discussed subject for we all collect. We collect friends, information, knowledge, experience and sometimes even dreams. This thought is about "collecting art" and how to go about it, m...

It's turned into a bit of a Labor Day tradition around here - we send you off on this pre-long-weekend Friday with a BIG list of ideas to inspire you to get a little creative during your bit of extra downtime ahead. This...

Chelsea Clinton is out as a special correspondent for NBC News. The expectant mother, who began her journalism career with the network in November 2011, announced the news in a Facebook post Friday. "To continue focusing...

SERIES PREMIERE: The six-part series "Raiders of the Lost Art" (Ovation at 7 p.m.) uses re-enactments, archival footage and commentary to piece together how famous pieces of art have gone missing. The premiere episod...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Two Sisters (restored), 1901, oil on canvas, 44 x 30 inches, Collection of Lawrence University. Though I attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for nearly six years, I didn't want their d...

New York is an towering city teeming with people, so depicting its small intimate, moments on canvas -- not to mention its moods, its complexity, or even its melancholy -- can be a difficult task. However, artist Max Fer...

My son was only a few days old. Skin soft and pink, his face still puffy, and his eyes often closed in the deepness of sleep. He was perfect, and for days my husband and I simply sat and stared at him, awestruck by this ...

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"A picture is worth a thousand words" is quite a popular saying. And now, a new film explores how black photographers and communities used the power of photography for social change. Inspired by Deborah Willis's book, "R...

Labor Day is not just the end of the summer, or the start of the school year, but a time to celebrate America’s working men and women. Here, four reads on the labor movement (past and present), and who we should really...

(Reuters) - A foundation controlled by the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett has paid $4.5 million for hundreds of artifacts belonging to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, a lawyer for Parks' heirs said on Friday...

The Rev. Amy Laura Hall wants faith groups throughout North Carolina just to say the words "labor union" during services Labor Day weekend.

Q: My new apartment is a wonderful former-flophouse in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Almost all of it has been renovated and the building managers decided to leave in the antique fireplace to add to the charm of t...

For the past four years I have been working on watercolor/gouaches on paper during summer/fall visits to Chania, on the island of Crete where I was born. The light there is vivid, warm and intense, which influences my wo...

Those picturesque still-life scenes in Ikea catalogs aren't real. Up to 75 percent of the Ikea products in catalog displays are computer-generated images, according to CGSociety, an Australian graphic-design group. That'...

Anne Pasternak is the president and artistic director of Creative Time and commissions innovative public artwork around the world. These are her favorite places in New York City. New York City is a great place to live an...

If you happen to look down at just the right moment while speeding across the George Washington Bridge, you may spy a flash of red, a plucky little structure that pre-dates even the bridge itself. You, my friend, have sp...

As scary as it is to think of what is going to happen to all the plastic waste that is filtering out into the ocean, one particular use seems to make a lot of sense -- and its also really beautiful. In 2013 the Canadian ...

From The Kitchn ' How To Make Pumpkin Spice Lattes (Even Better Than Starbucks!)