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GLEN ELLYN, Ill. - Daniela Polencheck met her biggest hurdle when she was still a toddler growing up in Colombia.

Coffee -- it can prevent disease, help our livers, make us more intelligent AND and most importantly --enable us to talk to other human beings in the morning after getting out of bed. But if coffee really is the best par...

Luxury Hangers by Kirby Allison • From $26 I don't buy hangers very often, but in the last few years I've been really frustrated when I've tried really economical wooden ones. Especially the Swedish Giant, whom I love,...

From The Kitchn ' How To Use Your Dutch Oven as a Slow Cooker

Be kind. Help a stranger in need. The world needs kindness, plus you never know when that stranger might just be the elusive artist Banksy. Or was it? A spokeswoman for the artist says no, but Ben Azarya, a schoolboy fro...

In the movie "Selma," which chronicles the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery protest marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., actor and hip hop artist Common plays the part of James Bevel, a prominent civil rights leader. "Sel...

MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) -- Some students at New Jersey's second-largest public university are not feeling the spirit even though Montclair State University is spending $210,000 for a 12-foot bronze statue depicting the scho...

Lovers of old objects have a kindred spirit in Justin Power. His South End shop, Pioneer Goods, feels like walking into a rustic New England cabin full of treasures from bygone eras. Having grown up antiquing, Justin has...

HOSSEIN KHOSROJERDI, Rain, 2014, Acrylic and pen on cardboard, 38 x 54 inches Hossein Khosrojerdi is best known for the work he produced in Iran, digitally composited paintings that spoke to social and political conditio...

The Warner Theatre, typically a comedy and concert venue, is taking a new interest in booking Broadway musical tours. What's on stage there now and coming soon this winter are non-Equity shows. Should you care? That depe...

One has certain expectations of a "Taken" movie -- really, of almost any Liam Neeson action film, but especially this popular franchise, which, as advertised on the posters for "Taken 3," "ends here."On the most basic le...

The red carpet -- that staple of award shows -- is bad for fashion. This wasn't always so, but now it is.The benefits celebrities reap from the season of step-and-repeat, which begins in earnest with Sunday's Golden Glob...

In the midst of a worrisome flu season, health officials are pushing doctors to prescribe antiviral medicines more often.

Not too long ago, Arthur was a "grandpa name", and Theodore was the family name you vowed you would never use. Now that those names are both back in fashion, which boy choices could be the next to stage a comeback? Here ...

Its death sentence came down in a public courtroom, but the priceless estate of the Corcoran Gallery of Art is being divvied up under a cloak of secrecy. Museum-goers who grew up with Rembrandt Peale's portrait of George...

Swedish musical groups have been gaining ground in the USA for, well, quite a long time. As far as I can remember, there have always been popular Swedish musical groups, each of which have polished the marble groundwork ...

With a little space planning, most rooms can fall into place pretty easily. Big furniture might exchange walls a few times and smaller accessories are always on the move. But sometimes, there's a spot in a new (or old) h...

Jay Duplass is having a moment. The longtime filmmaker made his major acting debut this summer in "Transparent," the much-buzzed about Amazon original series depicting a trans woman (Maura, played by Jeffrey Tambor) begi...

Yesterday, JC Penney announced it would be closing 40 stores across the country. Nearly 4 percent of the 1,060 Penney U.S. stores, the closures will affect about 2,250 employees, according to spokesman Joey Thomas. Most ...

The refashioned "Gigi" bounding into the Kennedy Center this week with a Broadway glint in its eye is a passion project from two women -- both new to musicals -- who have long adored the 1958 movie."I've wanted to see 'G...

NEW YORK -- The star, burgundy sweater knotted around her tiny waist, raises arm to mouth and hacks out a phlegmy cough.

Jovana Stokic. Photo: David Belusic During a recent insightful conversation, Jovana Stokic, art historian, curator, and deputy chair of the Masters in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), spoke passion...