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via Elle Whether you're starting from scratch or just feeling like your dining area needs a punching up, there are six steps you can start with to get to a dreamy dining room pretty quickly (or use to evaluate what you c...

A week after her controversial impersonation of a North Korean general at the Golden Globes, Margaret Cho is still fielding questions about whether the bit was racist -- sometimes in circumstances as unlikely as last nig...

We are representatives of the first all-transgender benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues. In 2004, Eve Ensler supplemented The Vagina Monologues, writing a transgender piece after having intimate conversations wi...

Name: Archana Location: San Diego, CA I've lived in this one-bedroom, 600 square foot Hillcrest apartment with my boyfriend and our golden retriever, Teddy, for the last two years. In 2011, my boyfriend and I quit our NY...

In olden times, to commemorate a rite of passage, young people would gather in a public space in the company of chaperones to sing with and dance to music. The music was a confession, it was a catharsis. It told of crush...

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra went back to basics on Saturday. After the previous weekend's program featuring revolutionary Stravinsky and the world music stylings of Osvaldo Golijov, the orchestra turned to two of th...

When violinist Gil Shaham bolted out of the starting gate in the "Adagio" of Bach's Sonata No. 1 in G minor, I thought of Robert Schumann's aphorism: "Do not think velocity, or passage-playing, your highest aim. Try to p...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took heat during last night's return of Saturday Night Live for its lack of nominations for "Selma" and black actors more generally.

"Saturday Night Live" returned from vacation last night with an uncharacteristically sincere cold open: a high school student explaining the state of race in America to the bemused ghost of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr...

No surprise: the Museum of Modern Art has extended its exhibition of Matisse's cut outs as a result of popular demand. The same happened when the show featuring the master's late in life career debuted in London's Tate. ...

KanKouran West African Dance Company has been celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with dance for 25 years, "way before it was a holiday," as Assane Konte, the group's artistic director, announced to the audienc...

Renovation by: Wendy Location: Nevada City We wanted the look of a stacked stone accent wall in our bathroom. However, we were unable to find a stone veneer that would fit behind our toilet. We decided to use reclaimed p...

What makes it "okay" (if it is, in fact, okay) for Cho to have caricatured North Koreans the way she did?

In case you missed it in the headline, let's just put this out there:Betty White just turned 93 years old. 93!She was born before the Great Depression, before Prohibition ended, before "The Star-Spangled Banner" was our ...

In case you missed it in the headline, let’s just put this out there: Betty White just turned 93 years old. 93! She was born before the Great Depression, before Prohibition ended, before “The Star-Spangled Banner” ...

If you can't add more actual storage cabinets to your living space, you can always increase the capacity of what's already there. This includes kitchen cupboards, free-standing wardrobes, media centers, and medicine cabi...

Chad and Dave's Modern Dream Home For many of us, nature is an endless source of rejuvenation. A place of peace we can escape to when the horrors of the modern world get to be too overwhelming. A place that recharges us,...

The kitchen in Sam's new house couldn't have been much worse. There were mice everywhere, the units were filthy, the cooker was condemned by the gasman, the back door could only be opened with a crowbar and worst of all,...

Now kids can rock the wearable trend, too. Rather than just counting steps or calories, KidFit (a dongle that's inserted into a watch-shaped wristband) motivates a behavior change in children by making activities into a ...

Looking for new or novel ways to display art in your home this year? Consider these handful of ideas that will show off your taste in art and be a little adventurous for your walls.

Painting is one of those things that's easy to do, but hard to do really well. If you plan on giving your pad a little infusion of color soon, then listen up: we tell you how to get DIY results that are as good as the pr...

Q: My Nanna was nice enough to give me her old sectional. I love the style very much since I am into the whole mid-century modern thing. Only problem is the fabric is weird mix of orange, green and purple. I guess this f...