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Color geeks, unite. The Pantone Hotel in Brussels is now open. Featuring seven color palettes spread over 59 rooms, each is a full immersion into a particular hue. Guests can enjoy the Pantone roof terrace, Pantone meeti...

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei received a shipment of garments from 14 up-and-coming fashion designers with instructions to photograph the clothes for the readers of V magazine in whatever manner he chose. He decided to do...

The tallest contemporary building made nearly entirely of wood opened last week. The 96-foot-tall, 51,000 square foot structure houses University of Northern British Columbia's wood engineering department, among other te...

"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars," Matthew McConaughey says in the first act of "Interstellar," Christopher Nolan's new epic adventure. "Now we just look down and worry about our place ...

Hey isn't that... George Takei, the "Star Trek" OG and 77-year-old social media maven, holding court at the 4th annual FedTalks at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Thursday? "How many Trekkies are in the house?" shoute...

While discussing the Blu-ray release of the HBO series with the Associated Press, "The Sopranos" creator David Chase was asked about the possibility of a prequel to the series. According to the New York Daily News, Chase...

From The Kitchn ' Kale Thinks It's a Big Deal. Let's Eat Swiss Chard Instead.

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A task often overlooked, cleaning your makeup brush is an easy way to promote healthy skin by keeping bacteria and dead skin cells at bay. This two-minute task is easy, and can even prolong the life of your makeup brush....

It all started in a New York wine shop in 2006. Rapper Jay Z, as one version of the story goes, stumbled upon his next big obsession. Gold bottle? Check. Unique label, an ace of spades? Check. Sometime later, the champag...

Known as the "Jewish James Bond," Simon Wiesenthal is credited with bringing 1,100 Nazis war criminals to justice, including a role in the capture of Adolph Eichmann, the architect of The Final Solution. The survivor of ...

UPDATE: Azealia Banks has officially Beyonced us with her debut album, "Broke With Expensive Taste." The rapper tweeted a link to the album in the iTunes store on Thursday afternoon. Voila!!!! Here it is... "Broke With E...

Winter may be coming fast, but that doesn't mean that you have to put away the bold patterns and colors of summer and spring. Here are five playful interiors and five matching coats that will keep you warm and happy, eve...

One of the fondest memories from my childhood was going to the Wanamaker's store in Philadelphia for lunch with my grandmother. We'd go right around every holiday to find me a frilly holiday dress, then visit the store's...

The Katskhi Pillar is a limestone monolith topped with the ruins of two Byzantine churches in the Republic of Georgia. The remote location is inhabited by a monk named Maxim Qavtaradze, who is restoring the churches hims...

So, somewhat sneakily, this assignment serves two purposes. It's ostensibly about helping to hold yourself accountable for completing the Cure, but really, it's ultimately about realizing how good it is to share your hom...

Can we write our own fate? David Marshall Grant ponders that question on a couple of levels in his surprising dark-comic drama "Pen," currently on view in an entertaining Washington Stage Guild production. To begin with,...

Quentin Tarantino reached deep into his own Rolodex for his buzzy new movie, "The Hateful Eight." The Weinstein Company announced the cast on Thursday, and among the lead stars are several actors who've appeared in Taran...

Autumn can be an intense time. There is an instinct to gather food and firewood and reading material and hunker down for the long winter ahead...but at the same time there is much beauty yet to explore. The leaves have t...

Thought you couldn't get excited about a kitchen sink? This post is here to prove you wrong. Here are 12 beautiful examples of sinks so stunning, you may actually start to look forward to washing the dishes.

Were you hoping that it was a functioning Airstream in which you could cruise across the country? Yeah, so was I. But in lieu of that, I'll take this adorable pint-sized version that works as a hip playhouse (playcamper?...

SHOW BOAT *** out of **** AVERY FISHER HALL AT LINCOLN CENTER Show Boat is an excellent show for the New York Philharmonic to present in concert. It's almost absurdly overstuffed with performers, making a Broadway reviva...