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Gail Fuller of Raleigh took home five ribbons at this year's NC State Fair special cooking contests.

Well-known chef Sean Brock, who is coming to the Fearrington Inn for an sold-out event Wednesday, talks about his debut cookbook, 'Heritage.'

Reports have been circling that Norman Reedus did not want his "Walking Dead" character, Daryl Dixon, to be gay. But on Monday, Reedus took to Twitter to set the record straight. After much fan and media speculation abou...

A child psychologist has tips to help your scaredy-cat get through to the candy haul.

If you wear stockings or pantyhose, don't let runs and snags ruin your day. And definitely don't throw old nylons away. Because, while they might have fallen short in their promise to keep your legs looking smooth, they ...

Photographer Seph Lawless is a master of the abandoned -- his frames are filled with eerie portraits of shopping malls, factories, homes. All dilapidated, all empty, all but forgotten. He usually travels across the Unite...

Revenge of the Green Dragons is a film chronicling the stories of two Asian-American immigrants, Sonny and Steven. While still children, the two are initiated into a local gang known as The Green Dragons, and soon become...

Gabrielle Anwar talks about her beau Shareef Malnik's Make-A-Wish Ball, her documentary-in-the-making, and why she won't "cling to my youth." Gabrielle Anwar. Fans of USA Network's Burn Notice know Gabrielle Anwar as ...

After decades as the reigning high priestess of the Washington dinner party, Sally Quinn knows how to entertain. She wrote the book on it (no, really, she did.) So it was no wonder that the reception following the memori...

"Innocents," Moby's show of big photographs at Emmanuel Fremin at 547 West 27th looked at once placid and uncanny, a good combo. I needed a quote from the artist, and said so. "A hard, gemlike flame," I added. Moby under...

Just in time for Halloween, here's a house creepily melting in the middle of London. As part of the 2014 MERGE Festival in the city's Bankside district, artist Alex Chinneck -- famous for his four-story "sliding house" i...

Photo credit: Valentina I. Valentini I wasn't nervous about going to rural West Virginia until people asked me if I was. "They do a lot of pills," my sister said. "They drink a lot," said someone else. "Watch out for wei...

Traveling teaches you to appreciate the value of solitude. Sometimes one needs to step away and have silence and peace and reflection. Zen can be found be in cities. Museums are where moments of reflection and learning c...

Halloween, a time to push the limits in editing photographs, a chance to break the rules and to have so much fun doing it. Every year, my daughter and her friends pose to provide images of imaginary characters in an imag...

"I want to communicate," goes an early chorus of the musical "Visible Language," and that fundamental message is delivered in song, American Sign Language and supertitles projected above the small stage at Gallaudet Univ...

When people talk about organizing their lives or cleaning up their homes, they don't often mean their digital lives or their tech spaces. So much of our effort when simplifying our lives gets dedicated to the kitchen, li...

Project by: Lindsay MacRae Interiors Location: Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York Client: Baby Tim a.k.a. Tunde The style of this room is vintage schoolhouse with a bit of mid-century modern. It's cute and playful enough fo...

Somewhere in Alejandro's Inarritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) lurks a decent short story. Maybe not a great short story like the Raymond Carver story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," w...

Lindsay Lohan is one of those actresses in a constant state of “comeback” after many years as a Hollywood punchline. Every new project garners optimistic anticipation from those who want to see her live up to the sta...

Lindsay Lohan is one of those actresses in a constant state of "comeback" after many years as a Hollywood punchline. Every new project garners optimistic anticipation from those who want to see her live up to the star po...

From The Kitchn ' 10 Ways to Use Up Leftover Celery

These animal sculptures made of Daikon radishes -- a winter root vegetable native to Asia -- look almost too good to eat. For a new book called "Grated Daikon Art," Tokyo-based viral radish artist Masanori Kono compiled ...