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As 2014 comes to a close, we're sharing the beauty picks that became our editors’ absolute favorites this year. Each Glitter Girl narrowed it down to just two products they ...

Beautiful campuses inspire a real sense of higher education -- or at least something pretty to look at while you doze off in lecture. The campuses here have been ranked the most beautiful by the Princeton Review for the ...

Just in time for the ideal reflections on the new year ahead, I sat down with filmmaker Lee Daniels on a terrace overlooking the splendid Arabian Gulf during the recent Dubai International Film Festival. Daniels served a...

Over a series of tweets posted since Friday, Judd Apatow slammed Bill Cosby, his defenders and a pair of venues hosting the 77-year-old comic in 2015. On Dec. 26, Apatow tweeted at the Ontario venues Centre in the Square...

Pets not only improve the look of our homes (a cute cat or dog curled up on a couch is always a great accessory!) they make our homes more enjoyable. But sometimes a little work is involved to make living with pets the m...

Jason Schwartzman's memories of childhood trips to classical concerts are filled with trepidation. "When are you supposed to laugh and applaud -- when are you not?" he wondered. "When do you stand?" These tend to be a co...

Orit Raff, Untitled, 2007, chromogenic print, 39 x 31 1/2", edition of 5 ORIT RAFF (ISRAEL) Orit Raff is influenced by minimalism as well as the Northern Romantic tradition. She is especially drawn to the ice-covered lan...

Get ready to gawk at these stunning spaces. We love browsing pretty pictures and getting inspired to try something new and these homes do it really, really right. Prepare to mop up your drool while you click through this...

Would you rather be called a brat or a champ? The answer might seem obvious. Why choose to be an unruly, impudent child when you could be a valiant victor? That's what Debbie and Jennifer Fink thought, anyway.

It's been quite a year. What better way to review the last 365 days than to examine, analyze, drool over and gush about the work of photojournalists and photographers, who worked to capture everything from protests to pa...

The topic of authenticity was ever-present in the presentations of Christiane Lemieux, Genevieve Gorder and Andrew Corrie. At our December Maker Talk, an audience member was curious how they could remain authentic while ...

I love the paint on his belt almost as much as I love his food. I'm speaking of the one and only Michael Chow, the genius restaurateur behind Mr. Chow, the high-end Chinese restaurant chain. He's talented. He's funny. An...

Renovations can be all-consuming, and nothing ever goes entirely according to plan. But what if you got to do something differently? While currently outside our powers, if we could send our Renovation Diarists back in ti...

Being a parent on New Year's Eve is tough. Kids love the excitement of counting down the last seconds of the year, but keeping them awake until midnight is either impossible or turns them into sleep-deprived terrors the ...

The National Gallery of Art's holiday music offerings, which began with a klezmer group on Dec. 21, closed out Sunday with the Ensemble Galilei, a Maryland group that specializes in folk music mainly from the British Isl...

WE KNEW IT! Sometimes those Facebook and Instagram photos seem just a little too polished and planned. Comic strip artist Andy Herd of the comic site Pandyland shows us that if your friends' Facebook and Instagram photos...

Here's a roundup of upcoming cooking classes in Cary, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham.

Rarely is television able to capture anything as graceful or thought-provoking as the second season of "The Comeback." For something that lays out its premise in such a bare way, the eight-episode journey of Valerie Cher...

Two shows at MOLAA. Each a precious gem. Each vivid and compelling. Each worthy of being savored again and again. Photographs courtesy of Mick Victor/COTU MEDIA "Transformations" represents a perfect use of a permanent c...

Western Wake Farmers' Market is screening the documentary, 'Food Chain$,' on Jan. 5 as a fundraiser to open a second market location.

The one thing the blogosphere does not need is another article about trendy, hip, ironic, facially-haired Brooklyn. In fact some recent articles now toll the death knell of the borough, saying that Brooklyn is passé; it...

Tomaž alamun (1941-2014) When Tomaž alamun arrived at a poetry festival in San Miguel de Allende two years ago with a bad back, which he had hurt tobogganing down the Great Wall of China, I was not surprised to learn t...