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The voters have spoken. After a hard-fought battle over the weekend, we have a winner in our Peep-le's Choice competition. By popular acclaim, the readers' favorite in the 2015 Peeps diorama contest is "Peeplize it."

David Levithan is the author of several fiction books for young adults, including his first novel, Boy Meets Boy, which began as a love story penned for his friends for Valentine's Day. His Nick and Norah's Infinite Play...

From The Kitchn ' A Smarter Way to Organize All Your Reusable Grocery Bags

If SxSW has a focal point, it's definitely 6th street, the main drag which runs through downtown Austin and plays host to a plethora of bars and music venues. One could spend the entire festival just attending free gigs ...

Just when you thought $22 million was an aspirational sticker price -- the kind of crazy high price tag meant to imbue uber luxury and not actual dollar signs -- another Washington address hits the market for that magica...

Griot -- cover for Sisters of the Spear. Painting by Andrea Rushing. Used with permission History is slippery. No matter who you are, unless you approach your historical research like a skeptical scientist, a surgeon wit...

The Baltimore Symphony and its music director, Marin Alsop, celebrated the waltz at Strathmore on Sunday afternoon. In a curious programming twist, music from early-19th-century Vienna, where the waltz was essentially pe...

Some of these cats are blind or have neurological problems. Others have legs that don't function well due to congenital abnormalities. Some are just a little scraped up for the time being, as a result of living on the st...

Marco Bellocchio's China Is Near (1967) which is currently being revived at Film Forum hearkens back to a time when sex wasn't so much political, as it has become today, as an allegory for politics. The film is reminisce...

Name: Scarlett Grace (3) Location: Byford, Western Australia. Scarlett is a girl who loves all things bright, and colourful. She loves dressing up and spreading all her barbies out to play imaginary games with them all d...

My grandfather's sister, Lillian Wilson, married a man by the name of Harvey G. Setzer in Weippe, Idaho, Shoshone County, on July 3, 1890. Harvey was a miner and contracted consumption. The doctor prescribed a warmer, dr...

Friday night's series finale of "Glee" was titled "Dreams Come True," so there wasn't much of a mystery about what was going to happen. The episode flashed forward five years in the future to see where everyone ended up;...

Friday night’s series finale of “Glee” was titled “Dreams Come True,” so there wasn’t much of a mystery about what was going to happen. The episode flashed forward five years in the future to see where everyo...

(Photo by Joan Marcus) I first saw the original Heidi Chronicles in 1989 when it won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony award for best play. I found it very witty and entertaining, as I do with all of Wendy Wasserstein's work. ...

I never knew Vernon Duke but I have been working with him for fifteen years now and I'm delighted to report that we are finally, finally, getting someplace. This past week, his spirit and I spent two thrilling days in a ...

The supertide that hits areas of northern France and southern England once every eighteen years swept through again over the weekend. As the waters ebbed and flowed at extreme levels, thousands of tourists gathered at Fr...

REVIEW: It was a fantastic Saturday evening at BAM as the 'KODO' ensemble concluded its 3-day performance in Brooklyn of its One World Tour. If you are not familiar with the art of drumming called Taiko, it's an extraord...

Washington native Taraji P. Henson is making headlines on Monday. The “Empire” star told Uptown Magazine that she’s planning to send her 20-year-old son, Marcel, to Howard University, a historically black school in...

Washington native Taraji P. Henson is making headlines on Monday. The "Empire" star told Uptown Magazine that she's planning to send her 20-year-old son, Marcel, to Howard University, a historically black school in the D...

(Updated below with a statement from USC)Washington native Taraji P. Henson is making headlines on Monday. The "Empire" star told Uptown Magazine that she's planning to send her 20-year-old son, Marcel, to Howard Univers...

From covering the bride and groom in ash, flour and feathers in Scotland to log sawing in Germany after the ceremony, tying the knot never gets boring. Buzzfeed put together a video of fascinating wedding traditions from...

Ray Eames holding Dot Pattern fabric, Library of Congress Inspiration can come from humble places or much more grand ones. Here are a collection of DIY projects that emulate iconic designs, some loosely and others more c...