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I don't know about you, but when I think of a shared kids' bedroom, my mind immediately goes to two twin beds side by side, or maybe bunk beds. (Or if you're as unlucky as my sister and I were, a shared full bed. We ofte...

When we decided to dig into some of North Carolina's most beloved cookbooks for a Tar Heel-centric Thanksgiving menu, we decided that turkey should stay on the table. We will…

Q: I was lucky enough to save 5 vintage wood slat folding chairs from the curb yesterday, but I'm looking to update them. Most are in excellent condition. Any suggestions?

Not that this'll ease those still suffering the devastating Hurricane Sandy effects, but it turns out the monstrously ill 2012 wind has blown a bit of good. By the Water, Sharyn Rothstein's drama at Manhattan Theatre Clu...

Beauty isn't about clothes or makeup -- it's about the person underneath them. That's the theory behind the "What's Underneath" video series, filmed by mother-and-daughter team Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum and host...

Drive three hours north of New York City, and venture (barely) across state borders, and you might find yourself in a town called North Adams, Massachusetts. With a population of just under 14,000 residents, the city pla...

Q: I am moving in with my boyfriend and his apartment, while otherwise awesome, has a horrific 70s retro kitchen complete with orange tiles and yellow countertops. It also has an unusable empty space awkwardly behind one...

While debates surrounding music streaming services, online downloads, physical purchases and torrents have been raging the past couple years, vinyl has been making a comeback in a big way. Avoiding what seemed like an im...

Artist Jonathan Payne mixes body parts like a mad scientist. His grotesqueries -- and we mean that in a good way! -- fuse genitals, breasts, fingers, teeth, tongues and more into horrific mutations that look absolutely r...

This is doll-finitely not your average photo series. Copenhagen-based photojournalist Benita Marcussen contacted several sex doll enthusiasts through an online forum and convinced them to let her photograph them with the...

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Knopf, $24.95 Published September 9, 2014 What we think: After an efficient strain of the flu wipes out civilization in a handful of days (fevers, air travel, overcrowded hospitals...

For the first time the story of Matthew Shepard is being told through the lens of a dear friend with an intimate perspective on the life of the hate crime victim. On Oct. 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard died after succumbing t...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An "undercurrent of inappropriate behavior" inside Ohio State University's celebrated marching band was fueled by a combination of societal pressures faced by students, unclear expectations set by ...

At its worst, Instagram encourages the small things in life -- vanity, insecurity, and conspicuous consumerism. At its best, it's a portal to the wide world. Below, we've rounded up some of the best Instagram accounts ou...

According to experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, the least violent and therefor most peaceful time in history is the time we're living in right now. There are parts of the world that might ha...

Did any of you listen to the Productivity episode of The Diane Rehms Show on Monday? One of the experts interviewed described a fascinating study he'd conducted, one that gets at the heart of why housework can feel so fr...

Neil deGrasse Tyson has already assessed the science in "Interstellar," but since you're probably still confused about the movie's ending, here he is explaining things like time, space and how Coop (Matthew McConaughey) ...

What do you love about movies? Film magazine Little White Lies presented the question to a handful of actors and directors, and the responses were as varying as they were inspiring. Francis Ford Coppolla said movies are ...

So, you want to bring the Olympics to Washington. Who you gonna call? Caps owner Ted Leonsis for starters, and mutli-millionaire Russ Ramsey, a few billionaires, community leaders and entrepreneurs -- a group of aggressi...

The Halley's Comet that is comedian Dave Chappelle recently granted a lengthy interview to GQ, as one of the guy style mag's Men of The Year. The D.C.-native was in fighting shape with the sit-down, jumping from jokes ab...

It was a sad coincidence that Batsheva Dance Company, the well-known Israeli troupe, opened its two-day run at the Kennedy Center Opera House on the day of a bloody rampage in a Jerusalem synagogue. Batsheva's supremely ...

It took nearly six years, but official Washington has finally invited comedian Stephen Colbert back to host one of its glitziest galas. On Wednesday, the Kennedy Center announced today that the faux conservative talk sho...