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Mark Landis at home with recent works. Photo by Sam Cullman. Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories. What is the distinction between mischievous and dangerous? Where do we draw the line between justice-seeking and unhealt...

Dwell on Design is setting its sights on Manhattan. That's right: After nine years in Los Angeles, the largest design event in the nation is coming to the Big Apple. But the New York iteration will be less a trade show m...

Being a parent and keeping up with your other hobbies and passions can be hard. But this dad found a perfect way to balance his parental duties with his music practice -- he wrote a one-handed sonata. The piece turned ou...

Chip It! Like this entry? Favorite it below! Name: M Location: San Jose, CA Division: Cool Inspiration for my palette: Coral reef

"The Maze Runner" isn't a particularly funny movie. But the dystopian thriller, based on a YA novel by the same name, may make you laugh unintentionally, if, like this viewer, you're forgiving of genre tropes. Told throu...

The romantic comedy genre is supposedly dead. Looks like someone forgot to tell the 2014 fall television season. A quick glance at the schedule reveals an unusually high number of shows centered on the time-honored TV tr...

The romantic comedy genre is supposedly dead. Looks like someone forgot to tell the 2014 fall television season. A quick glance at the schedule reveals an unusually high number of shows centered on the time-honored TV tr...

In November 1984, just two months after a brand new TV show called The Cosby Show first debuted on NBC, John Markus, a writer on the series, visited his family in London, Ohio for Thanksgiving. He took a walk at 8 p.m., ...

We've reached a saturation point in TV comedy with the "bearded best friend" character, as I've noted in some of my reviews. He's that schlubby, awkward, often delusionally self-confident supporting male who is inspired ...

Walmart continues to expand their home offerings, this time with a collection from designer Libby Langdon. The discount retailer has also launched a Novogratz line of bed and bath products.

A ritual dance performed during fall TV seasons of yore involved parsing the new dramas and comedies for any examples of diversity in casting -- or, more often, noting the profound lack of it -- and then expressing predi...

The only thing better than picking up an amazing new outfit? Nabbing some fabulous home decor while you're at it. We don't mean a cute little jewelry tray you stumbled upon in the accessories section -- we're talking ful...

Just about a week ago I posted 10 reasons to save the TV show Longmire from cancellation...and found myself in the midst of a sort of online revolution. Longmire fans aren't just loyal watchers; they're also grassroots a...

Are you utterly fed up with spending hours in the gym or pounding out countless miles and still seeing that excess fat on your body in the mirror? I've been there too. Frustrating, isn't it? The fact is, not all types of...

Hilary Swank's next Oscar nomination might be for "The Homesman." The drama, which premiered to strong reviews at this year's Cannes Film Festival, comes from director Tommy Lee Jones, and stars Swank as a frontierswoman...

Break out those calendars -- it's time to get outside and take advantage of the crisp fall air before the polar vortex makes a comeback. In Washington, Virginia and Maryland, the final months of the year are packed with ...

Over the past decade, no label has driven underground electronic dance music as thoroughly and consistently as London's Hyperdub. Founded by Steve "Kode9" Goodman, Hyperdub is best known for charting the development of d...

Night had fallen, and the rain, which began as drizzle soon into our 90-mile journey north from Rome, was teeming by the time we reached Paciano. We exited our van and hurried through a few yards of rural darkness into t...

You know when you're in an art gallery and you decide to steal one of the paintings off the wall and then you can't find a way to jam it into your sweatshirt because it's a painting and large rectangular paintings don't ...

Hans Rasmus Kvamen in Forde, Norway, writes: Do you use any special techniques to enhance your memory? I have a terrible memory and would love to learn something like the “walk of loci,” but I’m afraid that it coul...

Owls: they’re a hoot. And while they’re always associated with wisdom and prevalent in movies, TV shows, and books like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and, well also Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, they’re not as...

A tole lamp, spotted on Rue. Strategically positioned next to a seashell with a cloche on it. Do you ever find yourself drawn to something and can't quite explain why? I would characterize my style as pretty much the opp...