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We certainly look forward to holiday soirées and fancy fêtes each winter, but sometimes we also crave something slightly unexpected! Instead of donning sequins and heels this weekend, throw on a cozy ...

One of the best parts about January is the opportunity it presents for splurging on a fresh new calendar. There’s nothing quite like flipping through those crisp, clean pages that are soon ...

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The first carnival of the year in Spain is La Vijanera, which draws thousands of people to the Cantabrian town of Silió on the first Sunday in January. La Vijanera is also one of the earliest winter masquerades of pre-R...

A prison sentence is called "hard time" for a reason -- there's nothing cushy (and definitely no high thread counts) at even the low-security prisons where many a VIP has done time. But with celebrity convicts in the new...

Someone needs to give this teacher a gold star in creativity. Many teachers probably agree that grading assignments can be a long and tedious task. But John Zadrozny, a former science instructor in Thailand found a way t...

Broadway scene-stealing ace Alysha Umphress turns jazz chanteuse for a new collaboration with actor-composer Jeff Blumenkrantz. The star of "On The Town" lends her vocals to "I've Been Played: Alysha Umpress Swings Jeff ...

Well, that was a whirlwind! Apparently it's now January and yet my festive to-do list remains a mile long. Let's take stock of all the winter fun we didn't manage to get around to... yet. I'm still planning to do all of ...

"The Bachelor" is back for its 19th season Monday night -- no, indeed, this show never will die -- and on the surface, everything looks the same. There's a single stud looking for love. There are more than two dozen wome...

NANCY GROSSMAN, For David Smith, 1965, Mixed media assemblage on canvas mounted on plywood, 85 x 85 x 6¾ inches Nancy Grossman's best known work is centered on the human head and face, but her transition to those leathe...

The Mambo craze had reached an apogee in Los Angeles in the 1940s, when my Mexican parents first met and found love. My parents, now 96, always danced well and passed their passion down to me. I am an avid Latin music fa...

Name: Heather & Matt Location: Sante Fe, New Mexico We live in the tiny village of Madrid, NM, just south of Santa Fe. It's a community of 400 people with over 50 art galleries, so, our friends are artists, and the house...

Sebastian Cruttwell is a cantankerous intellectual snob with serious domestic failings and a case of chronic egotism. He does, on the other hand, have a way with a quip. Neurotically attentive to the state of his library...

After picking up my visa and exchanging some U.S. dollars for kyat I stepped out of the airport into the steam that is Yangon, Myanmar, during the monsoon season. A time of year good for photographers to avoid those unsi...

Another baby's on the way for TV talk show host Tamera Mowry and her husband, Fox News correspondent Adam Housley.Mowry, who starred in the reality show "Tia & Tamera" and now co-hosts "The Talk" announced the news exact...

I love pictures of babies crying. It's not that I revel in an innocent person's anguish (although, when I was a teenager, I did used to make weird faces at babies to see how they'd respond). It's the beautiful rawness. T...

It's January which means that you may have resolved to beef up your budgeting prowess and get your debt under control. Great! But don't cut up all your plastic just yet. There are some very good reasons to (responsibly) ...

Talk about big! A dark hole hundreds of times bigger than the Earth has been spotted on the surface of the sun. A photo of the enormous "coronal hole" (below) was snapped by a camera aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observat...

More turmoil at the Virginia Quarterly Review. New editor W. Ralph Eubanks will be gone by summer. Just a year and half ago, the University of Virginia announced that Eubanks was taking over as editor of the literary jou...

More turmoil at the Virginia Quarterly Review. New editor W. Ralph Eubanks will be gone by summer.Just a year and half ago, the University of Virginia announced that Eubanks was taking over as editor of the literary jour...

This study is from last year, but the results are still interesting. Gender equality manifests in many forms-- one of them being the division of housework. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that...

The Phillips Collection's excellent concert series resumed Sunday with a recital by Abigail Mitchell and Casey Robards. Mitchell, a young lyric soprano who has won voice competitions in Germany and Italy and who took sec...