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She is young, dynamic and driven. Yet when she stopped by my studio in the summer to look at my work, she was kind and generous as well. I could tell that she appreciated the work I was doing in trying to tell particular...

If you are tuned in even a little to the South's culinary scene, you have probably heard of Sean Brock.

The Washington Redskins' paraphernalia, in its traditional burgundy, gold and white, bears the profile of what is intended to be a Native American man. His complexion reflects the team's moniker, and his broad forehead s...

Those dance dynamo paperboys of Newsies occupied the Academy of Music in Philly for the kick-off of their boffo 1st National Tour of the 2012 multi-Tony Award winning musical. Who says they don't write musicals like this...

The "Julius Caesar" now playing at Folger Theatre is haunted, funereal and apparently eternal -- a "Caesar" bubbling up from the pits of hell. Director Robert Richmond has set the play in a grim stone structure that easi...

In a jaded art world, painter Odd Nerdrum still manages to divide people along passionate lines. He has always been seen as a convoluted kitschy throwback by the Scandinavian cognoscenti, themselves desperate to be taken...

By the release of Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee had covered a lot of musical territory, from his early days of pop rock as Tom & Jerry to the transcendent dynamism bo...

"Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective" was published by Abrams last month, and its a must-read for cinephiles of all ages. Written by Tom Shone, the book includes anecdotes about all of Scorsese's films and rare, behind-the-...

They say life is not a rehearsal, but Alain Resnais's Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter and not La Vie de Reilly is curiously the French title) portrays human existence as a series of rehearsals which take place tot...

On Monday, the "Let's Move" campaign -- first lady Michelle Obama's eat right or else initiative -- released a "behind the scenes" video meant to illustrate how awesomely healthy the White House is at lunchtime while the...

I am such a sucker for vintage scarves. I cannot resist them. They are little pieces of wearable art that can also look great around your home. For just a few bucks you can transform your throw pillows by adding unexpect...

There are few artists who exist on the same plane as the Beatles, but when it comes to determining the most productive, best-selling musicians, Jay Z is right up there with the boys from Liverpool. Concert Hotels gathere...

I'm the worst kind of writer. I'm the kind of writer who rarely writes, but retains the title. I'm prone to tiresome amounts of alliteration -- even now, I'm resisting the urge to be alliterative, and not doing a very go...

At this year's Middleburg Film Festival, the keynote address -- delivered by Motion Picture Association of America chair and CEO Christopher Dodd -- was titled "Why Films Matter." In the wood-paneled, richly appointed li...

In case you didn't know: Tom Cruise does his own stunts. And for his latest trick, the 52-year-old actor -- wearing a tailored gray suit and dress shoes -- clings to the fuselage of an Airbus A400M as it soars 5,000 feet...

Tom Magliozzi, one of the brothers who hosted NPR’s long-running “Car Talk” program, has died, the broadcaster announced Monday. Magliozzi, known with his brother Ray as “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers,” w...

We're all about this fun and catchy display of teamwork. Rapper Hoodie Allen and British pop sensation Ed Sheeran have released a playful new video for their track "All About It." The two don superhero costumes, smash wa...

Paul Stone, Untitled, ca. 1960s, Pencil on brown paper, 12.25 x 9 in. Collection of Arthur Bennett Kouwenhoven. Several ideas struck me while viewing the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art's current and very amb...

Tom Hanks, who needs no introduction unless you've literally never seen a movie, will add "published author" to his long list of accomplishments sometime in the near future. Just weeks after The New Yorker published his ...

Looks like Taylor Swift has another disgruntled ex. On Monday morning, Spotify sent out a string of heartbroken, pleading tweets, mourning that the pop star asked that her entire song library be removed from the popular ...

Courtesy of Electronic Awakening Film Buy the ticket, take the ride. -- Hunter S. Thompson In humanity's prehistoric time long before we invented money or an alphabet, we lived in harmony with Mother Nature, connected to...

A dirty garbage disposal is often the culprit for bad smells in the kitchen. Food bits can cling to the disposal and pipes and create extremely unpleasant odors. The best way to de-stink your kitchen is with a healthy do...