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Sharon Birnie of Finksburg, Md., was in search of the recipe for the sugar cookies that were sold at the now-closed Hess Country Store in Reisterstown, Md. She said the…

To squeeze more profits from each plane, the airline industry in the last few years has begun to install extra rows of seats, leading to a crunch in legroom that…

After a dully-dull Downton last week, the show returned Sunday night with its best episode in ages, filled with intrigue, nasty sniping and a number of critical plot revelations. Where to begin? Well, Mr. Bates almost ce...

From The Kitchn ' How To Open a Bottle of Champagne

Pianists who appear in recital with other artists always risk playing second fiddle. On Sunday at the Phillips Collection, the violinist Isabelle Faust was scheduled to perform with the pianist Alexander Melnikov. When F...

Name: Oliver (3) & Leo (2) Location: Highland, Utah I'm so in love with this whole lumberjack chic and plaid craze that is happening, so I decided to create a lumberjack room for my two active boys. I also wanted things ...

The future of health looks a lot like the fitness tracker you might already wear on your wrist or your waistband.

Darker-colored pups, it's said, have a hard time finding homes -- in part because their adoption photos don't always turn out so great. Humane Society of Utah photographer Guinnevere Shuster is changing all that with a s...

No matter what corner of the globe we live in, when we hear songs such as "No woman, No cry" by Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley, or the acclaimed song by U2 "Beautiful Day," our brains seem to experience some kind of b...

Name: Maura Location: King's Hill - Portland, OR Late last year, when I was particularly missing my native West Coast, I decided to relocate from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Oregon. Part of the challenge (and the exci...

Evan Bayh, who famously quit the Senate after two terms, is saying bye-bye to Washington's Spring Valley nabe for now. Bayh's six-bedroom Georgia style brick home just hit the market for $2.595 million, which according t...

When news blew up over the weekend that Rosie O'Donnell planned to quit "The View" -- yes, again -- it was reasonable to assume that the panelists, never ones to shy from "hot topics," would, you know, at least mention i...

When news blew up over the weekend that Rosie O’Donnell planned to quit “The View” — yes, again — it was reasonable to assume that the panelists, never ones to shy from “hot topics,” would, you know, at lea...

A video arrived in my inbox last week. Ordinarily, I would delete such emails, but this time I hit play and enjoyed it and now my girlfriend has this song on repeat and so I thought I'd share. It comes from Bay Uno, who ...

What's the best Broadway can be? That's the driving question asked at the fourth annual TEDxBroadway conference taking place in NYC in just two short weeks. As a co-organizer of the event, I've been on the front lines an...

A curfew of 8:30 on non-school nights for admittedly good 13-year-olds doesn't amount to much freedom. Many parents seem to think that the way to avoid problems during the teen…

Vintage Red Cross first aid tin found on Etsy Inspired by all your feedback on my last list like this, 12 Things Every Home Should Have, I decided to refine my focus, do more research and give you a lens into what I thin...

Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver write children's books about a character with dyslexia. They'll visit Raleigh and Pittsboro this week with their latest book, "Here's Hank: Fake Snakes and Weird…

Chef Justin Burdett, formerly of Ruka's Table in Highlands, N.C., will be cooking Tuesday in Durham.

A winter blitz is hitting area stages, with enough on view to blanket every taste. At least nine shows opened over the weekend, and the three I caught included a lighthearted Mexican classic, an extreme farce (with cats)...

Sweden goes beyond the national anthem and adopts a national typeface. Sweden Sans, designed by Soderhavet, is part of a wider national branding project. Of the inspiration, designer Stefan Hattenbach says, "There's an e...

Our perceptions of how we spend our time may be wildly skewed from reality. Christine Linder recently co-published an e-book called "Are You Controlling Your Family's Schedule, Or Is It…