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Name: Britain Spinney Location: Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois My boyfriend and I live in a one-bedroom apartment in the heart of Logan square that is about 600 square feet. We didn't have much time to find an apartment...

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Czech's Mix Part 3: Clarinet Factory from Michal Shapiro on Vimeo. One of the surprising performances at the Crossroads Festival (part of the Colours of Ostrava Festival) in Czech Republic, was from the ensemble called t...

Melissa's living room wasn't bad looking -- it had perfectly functional, traditional-styled furniture and a lot of natural light. But it didn't fit her or her husband's style. So they worked together to come up with a lo...

Jordan and her growing family were looking for a home, but knew with San Francisco's high prices they would probably have to settle for a home that didn't quite match their dreams. Even though friends warned her of the h...

Whatever your reasons for having an all (or nearly all) white kitchen -- perhaps saddled with a drab colorless one because you rent -- it doesn't have to be boring. These five nearly all-white kitchens don't need a lot o...

Ben Affleck made headlines after announcing that he'd appear fully nude in "Gone Girl," one of this season's most hotly-anticipated new movies. While viewers have so far been divided as to whether or not Affleck's full-f...

Looking to lighten the mood in your home? You need only take some notes from these twelve rooms bursting with cheer -- and having fun with design. From bright colors, to playful art, to textures and patterns, these space...

"All you can do is fail," said Mary Szybist about the challenge of measuring herself against the ideal of the Virgin Mary. "There's something profoundly inhuman about her. She is valued because she is a mother and becaus...

Name: Marie-Laurence and Johan Location: Plateau Mont-Royal; Montreal, Canada Size: 900 square feet Years lived in: 1 1/2 years; rented I was excited to photograph Marie-Laurence and Johan's apartment. She is an interior...

When we talk about the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Uganda, it tends to always be in terms of religion-based oppression, violence and murder. However, are the voices that often...

The premise of Love Letters, a chamber piece now on Broadway, is simple: Two people begin writing each other at age 8. Over the next 50 years, from the late 1930s onward, two upper-class WASPS chart their personal voyage...

Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters are savvy social-media users. Images of the crowds taking over the city streets this week have been shared around the world, sparking rallies of support from Manila to Los Angeles. Po...

Four months ago on May 9, Joan Lunden joined me here on Mind Your Body, and we talked about health--the good kind. Then she received a diagnosis of stage 2 triple negative breast cancer exactly a month later. Maybe you'v...

It was an unlikely journey for Chef Jeff Henderson, from a childhood in South Central Los Angeles to becoming the first African-American executive chef at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. There he picked up a Las Vegas C...

Air plants, also known as tillandsias, are all over the blogosphere and I doubt this fun trend is going to fade anytime soon. It's not surprising: With their striking sculptural forms and easy, elementary maintenance, th...

June's fireplace had some dated features like fake wood and weird Victorian-esque floral tiles. She would have loved to replace the whole thing with her dream of a wood burning fireplace, but she didn't have the budget f...

I've been thinking lately about all the places I've called home. And how our past homes tend to stay with us as memories and feelings, long after we move. Home is where we are our most intimate, our most silly, our most ...

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The 2014 winners will be announced starting Oct. 6. 25 Age of the youngest laureate ever (he won in 1915 for physics). 45 Number of women who have won a Nobel Prize (out of 876 total). 29 Percent of all winners have been...

A bevy of great books by and about musicians is hitting store shelves this fall. Elvis & Ginger Ginger Alden, the 21-year-old beauty engaged to Elvis when he died, sets the record straight about the man who loved her ten...

The beloved Britain's Got Talent winner, 53, releases Hope on Oct. 21 and kicks off her first U.S. tour on Oct. 8. What are you most looking forward to with this tour? I'm excited to go to new places. It's a big thank-yo...