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From The Kitchn ' 5 Easy Ways to Make Chicken Breast More Interesting

We've all been there: pressed for time (pun intended), forced to use our iron with a dirty plate, nervous that the precious few minutes we are taking to actually iron out the wrinkles might set us even further behind by ...

Actress Anna Kendrick is the new spokesmodel for Kate Spade's holiday collection.

There's a cast of unknowns, the ratings are spotty, and so they call in Prince and hand over a chunk of Saturday Night Live. Reading the breathless press coverage of his upcoming, eight-minute jam (Rolling Stone: "What b...

It's possible to create a neat and tidy map tracing the progress of American art over the last 50 years. Yes, you can draw some sort of shape connecting Pop Art to Minimalism to Conceptual Art, highlighting the famed (of...

Marsha Ambrosius -- model of musical excellence, reigning queen of elegant, adult-contemporary bedroom music -- typically floats on stage, sings beautiful, suggestive songs about love and longing, then glides off, presum...

"I didn't come to Washington, D.C. to talk," said Jake Gyllenhaal, before plunging into a crowd of cameraphone-wielding college students still gobsmacked by the actor's surprise appearance last weekend at a late-night sc...

If you're not willing to settle for a likable lead character, you may well be satisfied with a lovable Frances McDormand in "Olive Kitteridge," an HBO miniseries that is every bit as astringent and intelligent as its tit...

1. A glance between Olivia and Fitz is equal to another couple's 1000 kisses GIF: scandalmoments.tumblr.com Ross and Rachel who? 2. And you know their relationship is toxic GIF: BuzzFeed Ugh, Fitz. 3. But you want them t...

Susan Sollins died on October 13 and changed the lives of all who knew her. It was such a sudden loss -- startling, saddening, totally unexpected. Susan was a person who planned and scheduled, who thrived on the day-to-d...

Looks like Breezy's twist-filled Washington legal saga is over. Singer Chris Brown paid "just over" $100,000 to the Maryland man he punched in the nose last year during a scuffle outside the W hotel, our colleague Keith ...

Last week, we played Let's Make a Dress Out of That Couch, so it's time to turn the tables: here are 10 new items of clothing for fall that would make killer rugs and shower curtains:

Love MUJI's minimalist Japanese aesthetic? Check out the brand's new prefab home, a slender three-story split level completely devoid of interior walls and doors. There's lots to love about the simple beauty of this smal...

It isn't very often that weird humor and hip-hop mix. The Beasties Boys and The Fat Boys were two of the first to embrace comedy hip-hop in the 1980s, a conceit that was picked up by Eminem in the '90s, and current acts ...

A celebrity endorsement for D.C. mayoral candidate Muriel Bowser probably has the Democrat feeling pretty "Happy." Pharrell Williams, he of the extensive hat wardrobe and catchy hit song, tweeted his support ahead of the...

(Ireland Baldwin and Amy Doan. All images courtesy of Susan Michals) Last night in Los Angeles, Hello Kitty got her Hollywood close-up with the first ever Hello Kitty Con convention in the world. The Sanrio character, wh...

Even with his daughter out of the game, even with the writing on the wall, Washington farmer Dale Wentworth wasn’t about to exit Survivor without a fight. “I’m not going to give up until I can’t talk anymore.” ...

Mmmmm horrific cruelty! Photographer Henry Hargreaves froze some of his childhood idols in edible carbonite. "In my nostalgic fantasy... the ruthless gangster, Jabba the Hut, put out a bounty on my favorite childhood cha...

I had heard that the Broadway musical Once set in Dublin and about love in a pub had posted its closing date for early January, 2015, but I was still surprised to see a Wednesday matinee performance pop up on my "best-de...

She seems like such an unpleasant and perplexing person, Olive Kitteridge, until you start to recognize yourself in her. Or maybe you don't. American culture, after all, has spent considerable time and money promoting a ...

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Washington Wizards' Marcin Gortat -- he of the mohawk and the $60 million contract -- recently plunked down $1.6 million for a 4,000 square foot mansion in Arlington, Va, according to Curbed. The custom built five-bedroo...