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In spite of being one of the most unique works of art, the Watts Towers by Simon Rodia are on The Cultural Landscape Foundation's Landslide list of threatened and at-risk landscapes and landscape features. Built by the I...

Project by: Tracy Gilmore Location: Playa Vista, California If you're looking for some design details to add to your space that will create a calm and soothing room, you may find some inspiration in this cozy and simple ...

The Czech Philharmonic had a busy weekend. The orchestra capped its U.S. tour at the National Cathedral on Sunday, marking the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, preceded by playing at Carnegie Hall on Saturday a...

The Allen Jones retrospective at the Royal Academy's Burlington Gardens is like walking into a great party, full of like-minded souls dancing to the same music, where life and seduction, and feeling young, disguise any a...

Remember that scene in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" where a team of concierges band together to free one of their own from jail? It feels like something only a Hollywood script writer could invent. But then you spend a day...

Artist Holly Van Hart is a committed optimist. Her work expounds on the idea that finding serenity in the face of life's trials and turmoil is a matter of staying alert to possibility and open to change. In many of her r...

The river rippled calmly in front of us, but we could hear the thunder of the rapids ahead.

Q: While looking for a desk chair at a local Salvation Army, I stumbled upon these. I immediately liked the shape and tried to convince the store to let me just buy one. Luckily, they told me no, but I was able to purcha...

They don't give out Oscars for music videos -- that's what the MTV Video Music Awards are for! -- but maybe there can be a special dispensation made at next year's ceremony for "Masterpiece." The video, which features fi...

Nobody to walk you back to your hotel or car after dark? This personal safety app may offer some peace of mind.

Q: What is the earliest age that I can apply for my Social Security retirement benefits?

Les Miserables was the first Broadway show that I ever saw. It was a huge deal in my life and a very defining moment in knowing that I wanted to pursue some kind of a life in the theater. The excursion was our big sixth ...

Dallas-based Gwyneth Paltrow fans, rejoice: The month-long Goop pop-up opened today. The Highland Park Village shop will carry brands like Stella McCartney, Calvin Klein Home, Jennifer Fisher Jewelry, Jennifer Meyer Jewe...

It can be tough for a sitcom to take on a timely topic, particularly in the political arena. That’s partly a factor of TV production schedules, partly the hesitance about shoehorning a serious issue in between laugh tr...

It can be tough for a sitcom to take on a timely topic, particularly in the political arena. That's partly a factor of TV production schedules, partly the hesitance about shoehorning a serious issue in between laugh trac...

Just for a day, an "Apple Store" showed off neither phones nor computers but actual Apples. To celebrate its 1,000th anniversary last month, London's Borough Market turned a section of its indoor shopping hall into a dis...

"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also," reads a placard near where the heart of composer Frédéric Chopin lies. It is sealed in a glass jar and concealed by a stone pillar. In Poland, where the organ ha...

"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” reads a placard near where the heart of composer Frédéric Chopin lies. It is sealed in a glass jar and concealed by a stone pillar. In Poland, where the organ ...

Just two months into her year-long reign as Miss America 2015, 23-year-old Kira Kazantsev is already exhausted. "There have been times when I wanted to just crawl into a hole and never talk to anyone again," Kazantsev to...

How we experience purchases of coffee and baked goods may sound fairly trivial, and elitist. But, based on my current immersion in the south of France, I have come to think these simple interactions offer valuable lesson...

Avery Nejam Limited Edition Print. Image courtesy of Avery Nejam "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion writes to open one of her many seminal essays, "The White Album." "We look for the sermon in the ...

When last seen on Broadway in 2009, Disney's $15 million musical "The Little Mermaid" was quietly sinking under the waves after a run of less than two years. A planned major national tour of Francesca Zambello's high-glo...