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Welcome to the New Year! Whether you're already hard at work making your fresh batch of New Year's resolutions a reality, or still nursing your hangover and breaking all of them at once, we're here to ease you into equil...

What's the connection between slasher flicks and the art of M.C. Escher? Both inspired Iranian writer-director Shahram Mokri's "Fish & Cat," winner of a special award for innovation at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. The ...

This article originally appeared on Slate. By David Rosenberg According to Mattel, every three seconds, a Barbie doll is sold somewhere in the world. Developed in 1959, the iconic doll has as had roughly 150 careers, rep...

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to increase the space between you and strangers in public settings, a piece of futuristic clothing dubbed "Spider Dress" is about to make all your 2015 dreams come true. From the ...

Billy Joel hasn't written pop music in years, but the 65-year-old piano player is still a knockout in concert. You can see a flash of why in tonight's 90-minute PBS special, "Billy Joel: The Library of of Congress Gershw...

Billy Joel hasn’t written pop music in years, but the 65-year-old piano player is still a knockout in concert. You can see a flash of why in tonight’s 90-minute PBS special, “Billy Joel: The Library of of Congress ...

Growing up with a father on the police force, William Valentine experienced a childhood slightly different from his peers. He observed life-threatening scenarios and witnessed his first dead body before the age of 8 year...

"District 9" and "Elysium" director Neill Blomkamp took to Instagram on Thursday to release concept art from a secret "Alien" project which would have reunited Sigourney Weaver's Ripley and Michael Biehn's Hicks. Unfortu...

Yurts were at the center of a really fascinating trend in 2014: glamping. Or glamorous camping, if you will. And while most yurts featured in the design community are in warm, scenic locations - this one struck me. It's ...

Name: Fanis Location: Financial District, Manhattan, New York This is my sanctuary...a studio in the heart of the Financial District, in New York city, about two blocks away from the new Freedom Tower.

Christi's Creative & Crafty Austin Apartment This post isn't about embracing habits that affect the cleanliness or order of your home like making your bed or taking your shoes off. In fact, it's not about making your hom...

Grape guy Fred Tasker tasted a lot of wine in 2014. These are his favorites. …

South Florida’s growing sommelier community is as diverse as a New World blend. Get to know some top somms. …

Ann Weber, a sculptor from Emeryville, California, one of the rapidly emerging "creative cities" author Richard Florida talks about in The Rise of the Creative Class, is just ending her "artist in residency" at the LUX I...

Ideas and recipes for every night’s dinner. …

As we strive to keep New Year’s resolutions, turn to these guides for recipes that taste great and are good for you. …

Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere can celebrate the start of 2015 with the year's very first meteor shower, set to peak this weekend. The Quadrantid meteor shower, always the first of the year, is expected to peak o...

Make this weeknight meal in minutes. For a wine pairing, try syrah. …

These days, it's standard procedure when a celebrity lands a big profile in a magazine: The star says something that may be controversial. The quote is excerpted, analyzed, and causes outrage. Then the celebrity apologiz...

These days, it’s standard procedure when a celebrity lands a big profile in a magazine: The star says something that may be controversial. The quote is excerpted, analyzed, and causes outrage. Then the celebrity apolog...

The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh will break ground on a new cathedral in West Raleigh on Saturday morning. Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral will become the new mother church for…

There's a computer-controlled sphere dancing in New York City this month, and you have about a week left to see it. The oddity is Maria Blaisse's "Breathing Sphere," and it's currently housed at the Noguchi Museum in Lon...