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Maureen's Classic & Comfy Austin Abode Looking for an easy, fast, almost-impossible-to-mess-up decor element you can add to your home today to add some holiday cheer and a winter-y feel? Grab some branches -- forage in y...

Ben Knight, who owns Chef & the Farmer with his chef wife, Vivian Howard, has an art show Thursday at Alizarin Gallery in Durham.

Name: James and Shanna Location: Northgate Park, Durham, North Carolina When I moved from Los Angeles to Durham, North Carolina for a job at Merge Records, I was excited to be able to have an entire place of my own. I re...

The power of pausing before a purchase to really delve into why you're about to swipe your credit card could be a powerful way to save more money, especially if you make this kind of retrospection into a habit and take t...

Project by: Robert Sweet of ras-a, inc. Location: Venice, California As this project proves, sometimes even an affordable material like plywood can look sleek and modern when used effectively, and can really make an inte...

The first trailer for “Jurassic World” came out this week, and skeptical paleontologists everywhere are raising eyebrows about the “Jurassic Park” franchise reboot. As Hans-Dieter Sues, National Museum of Natural...

The first trailer for "Jurassic World" came out this week, and skeptical paleontologists everywhere are raising eyebrows about the "Jurassic Park" franchise reboot. As Hans-Dieter Sues, National Museum of Natural History...

Former Book World editor Marie Arana has been appointed c0-director of next year’s National Book Festival on Sept. 5. The Library of Congress also announced this morning that the festival will remain in the Washington ...

Former Book World editor Marie Arana has been appointed c0-director of next year's National Book Festival on Sept. 5. The Library of Congress also announced this morning that the festival will remain in the Washington Co...

I drive one of those cars made by a company that recently got busted for lying about gas mileage and ended up having to return $300 million in cash and…

The girl with the mattress leans her navy blue burden against the wall of her statistics classroom, then settles into a chair. The professor, pacing, does a double take when he runs into it, but doesn't say anything. Her...

The Grumpy Cat TV Christmas movie is here, about a year too late, and it's as mindlessly soul-sucking as one might expect (hope?) a Grumpy Cat TV Christmas movie to be. Nevertheless, people are going to watch it in drove...

Smashfest, now in its fourth year, raises money for the Scrap Exchange and for some, at least, serves as a kind karmic counterbalance to the consumer frenzy that was simultaneously…

Every year someone takes the Baby Jesus out of the manger and puts him in the sleigh at Dale O'Neal's Raleigh home.

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Magazine writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely knew she wanted to write about sexual assaults at an elite university. What she didn't know was which university. So, for six weeks starting in June, Erdely interviewed students from ...

The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh announced Friday that it will break ground on a new cathedral in West Raleigh on Jan. 3.

Late in the Kneehigh production of Tristan & Yseult, at St. Ann's Warehouse, a character says, "It's hard to keep things white." She's referring to how easily white apparel can be soiled, often by blood. I'd been thinkin...