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The holiday dinner goose on which you splurged is coming home to roost. Toys R Us wants your next paycheck, as you promised. You went to Jared, and now he's…

Food truck owner Mike Markham opens a barbecue restaurant and bottle shop in Cary.

I love making lists. It simplifies life and allows the indulgence of a John Cusack/High Fidelity fantasy to play in my head. However, to sum up the year with the top 10 or 15 or even 20 movies in a tidy, little list that...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's famed mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova, who has performed at the world's top opera houses, died Monday at age 75. Obraztsova's cultural foundation said in a statement that she died of cardiac arrest...

The arts industry is a powerhouse. The visual and performing arts touch more than half of all Americans -- and almost three in four through technology -- and they contribute almost $700 billion to the national economy, m...

The arts industry is a powerhouse. The visual and performing arts touch more than half of all Americans - and almost three in four through technology - and they contribute almost $700 billion to the national economy, mor...

From The Kitchn ' It's January: Plan a Soup Swap!

In November of 2008, beloved Jersey rock impresario and manager Bob Benjamin rented out a small restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey for his 40th birthday. Benjamin had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a d...

I worry about my generation. Outside of all the chaos and destruction in the world, I worry about my generation's sense of entitlement and lack of desire to learn from, or about, its history. I was driving in my car yest...

Goursaud's Bold & Playful Home If you have a perfectly matched and perfectly respectable set of dining room chairs, all is well. But, if you are looking to shake things up a bit, here are inspirational examples where the...

DAVID JOHNS, Canyon Reflection, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 55½ x 40 inches David Johns practices abstract expressionism without apology, breathing new life into a time-honored but clichéd style by putting its tenets unse...

In 2014, we saw amazing strides and accomplishments made by women throughout the art world. No matter where you looked, there seemed to be women artists, curators, collectors and entrepreneurs making their impactful pres...

Designer John Galliano showed his first “artisanal” collection for Maison Martin Margiela on Monday evening in London, as that city was wrapping up its fall 2015 menswear presentations. He did so in front of a small ...

Name: Joyce Location: San Francisco, CA I am an self-made interior stylist in SF, specializing in high-impact and low-cost chic decorating. I try to bring an easy-glam, eclectic aesthetic into my place.

"Parks and Recreation" returns for its seventh and (sadly) final season on Tuesday night. It's a bittersweet feeling, but at least we'll get a double dose of the gang in back-to-back episodes each week. Before you get to...

Sure, beds in the corner aren't usually idea. It's difficult to make the bed and having the biggest piece of furniture against the wall can throw off the visual balance. But sometimes, especially in a small room, it's th...

We’ve officially reached the point in the news cycle where things have gotten weird. At Sunday night’s Golden Globes, Hollywood was in a “Je Suis Charlie,” free-speech-loving tizzy. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler procl...

Many architects are out of touch, but so are architecture critics. CCTV Tower, Beijing, 2012. Rem Koolhaas / Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Photo by Eric Gregory Powell / CNN. French filmmaker Claude Chabrol once ...

So you'd like to do something about how all that sitting is killing you, but there's no way you'd be seen sitting on a workout ball. Designer Darryl Agawin created the Balance Stool, made from reclaimed wood, that works ...

Orchestras tend to be cautious things, obliged by economics to stick to well-trod musical paths. So it's always interesting to hear members of the National Symphony Orchestra play chamber music, where they can be as adve...

Take Bruno Mars' advice and call the police and the fireman, because this mom's dance skills are on fire. Travis Wong, a well-known choreographer, recently uploaded a video of his mother crushing a hip hop routine to "Up...

This fall the Apartment Therapy inbox was filled with press releases, mostly from paint companies, about color trends for 2015 and many declarations and predictions about the "color of the year". The jury is out on which...