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Girls and women often feel sexuality is their most prized possession, thanks to the messages they get through pop culture. But when they do own their sexuality, they are shamed for it, putting them in a double bind. "Not...

On Friday, December 12, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum reopens at the Carnegie Mansion. The revamp includes some pretty cool features that allow you to explore and play with the collection, including a digit...

For many Steven Soderbergh fans, "Ocean's Twelve" sits somewhere toward the bottom of the director's vast filmography, slotted near other perceived failures like "The Good German." And that's fine with Soderbergh himself...

I traveled to Boston to see Eve Ensler's new play performed at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard. I like her big ideas and her love of words. She did not disappoint. We were asked to think deeply about the presen...

FX announced Wednesday that Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons ("Friday Night Lights," "Breaking Bad") will star in Season 2 of "Fargo" as Peggy and Ed Blomquist, respectively. Peggy is described as "a small town beautician...

Jung has two beautiful children at home and expressed how terribly fast childhood goes by. Keeping yourself curious and recognizing the glory of life is essential to staying vibrant. Check out the answer in her own words...

Every year around this time, we gather for a holiday tradition - the swapping of holiday horror stories in Carolyn Hax's annual Hootenanny of Holiday Horrors. This year's Hoot takes place Friday, Dec. 12, so start sendin...

It's not what's behind a curtain, but behind a screen, that counts most crucially in Synetic Theater's graphically clever new adaptation of the 18th-century French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast." The semitransparent p...

Jim Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory" just gave your favorite holiday movie a makeover. The actor, who plays the one and only Sheldon on "Big Bang," voices Buddy the elf in a new clip for NBC's upcoming animated TV specia...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has received a $20 million gift, the second largest in its history, to endow the orchestra's top administrative post and create a fund for technology and innovation. Tech entrepreneur David B...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has received a $20 million gift, the second largest in its history, to endow the orchestra's top administrative post and create a fund for technology and innovation. Tech entrepreneur David B...

At 8:20 a.m. Thursday morning, Kate Beckinsale, Peter Krause, Paula Patton and Jeremy Piven will announce the nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe Awards. Some of the contenders, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Ass...

At 8:20 a.m. Thursday morning, Kate Beckinsale, Peter Krause, Paula Patton and Jeremy Piven will announce the nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe Awards. Some of the contenders, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Ass...

Natalie & Seth's Organic Modern Home Are you a good party guest? Here are three party guest habits to avoid -- and four to adopt -- to ensure you'll be invited back year after year.

The following article is provided by Rolling Stone. By NICK MURRAY When Stuart Murdoch was performing alone at Glasgow open mics in the mid-Nineties, the young singer-songwriter barely considered longevity. "I always ima...

Stephen Waarts, an 18-year-old violinist studying at Curtis, gave an outstanding local debut Tuesday at the Terrace Theater. In a fine program of Beethoven, Bartok, Ravel, and Waxman -- difficult music, in a range of sty...

Post Post When something is removed sometimes there can be trace evidence of its presence. The outline on a bare wall where a painting hung for decades, the impression left in a rug where a chair has sat for weeks, a blu...

Good news: That fantasy every movie-goer has of "randomly" running into a film's star just before the theater lights dim is delusion no longer -- nowadays it's just part of the publicity tour. And thankfully Washington h...

The color experts at Pantone have announced their color of the year for 2015 - Marsala, a deep reddish-brown - a color that has everything to do with the next…

As the weeks wind down toward the holidays, I'm glad I've been able to have some cultural endeavors amid the shopping and, you know, work. Last week, I left two different performances with two very different expressions ...

Classic Latin pop songs get a funky new twist on "Musica Moderna," the new album by Orquesta Discotheque, an ambitious musical project spearheaded by the Venezuelan guitarist José Luis Pardo. Pardo felt that a lot of we...

Making a donation to someone's favorite cause is a lovely gift, but sometimes you want to give something tangible, right? Maybe even pretty? These are great gifts in their own right, and they support admirable efforts to...