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"We are on the edge of a brave new world of body love and acceptance." That's the good news burlesque performer Lillian Bustle shared in her TEDxJersey City talk about body image. Bustle explains that "fat" has become sy...

Five mornings a week, Robert Barksdale wakes up before dawn in his mother's Oxon Hill home. He takes the B2 bus to Adams Place NE in Washington, where he walks past a cluster of low-slung warehouses and a men's emergency...

Tonight on April 4, 2015 I walked the streets of downtown Los Angeles. I was walking down Spring Street on the night of the full moon and a lunar eclipse. I'm not surprised that it was a night of discovery, of the unexpe...

What to do when you receive a donation of 50,ooo books? If you're the Bay Area Book Festival, you build a library out of them-- literally. The temporary structure features alcoves for secluded reading, and is scheduled t...

When Broadway composers aren't writing musicals, they're still composing. They write music for plays, film scores, and symphonies. They also write choral music, and this Wednesday the chorus I sing with, Essential Voices...

Project by: Keri Petersen/KP Spaces Location: Seattle, Washington These are pictures of my son's room. We moved into a 1952 Mid Century modern ranch house that had original wood paneling in the family room and in one bed...

While visiting Titus Kaphar's exhibition Asphalt and Chalk at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea, New York in early February, I was struck by the power, simplicity and deceptive ordinariness of two small panels, a diptych,...

With so many digital ratings systems organizing our modern lives, it was only a matter of time before someone as prominent as Salman Rushdie confused Netflix's recommendation algorithm with Goodreads' public book ratings...

Rhonda Saunders wrote an ode to her zip code, 33040. Key West, Fla. I own little. and regret less.   Key West does that.   That's a three-word line, a three-word line, a line break, four words and another line break to...

Michelle Obama has a clear message for first daughters, Malia and Sasha: You're not influential.Appearing on "Live with Kelly and Michael" during Monday's annual White House Easter Egg Roll, the first lady, wearing shade...

Cheyenne Weaver's Gilded Simplicity My day job is the only one I've ever had in which the employees never socialize outside of work-- it's also the only one I've ever had in which all of the employees' families live loca...

When Daniel Aguilar was just 16 years old, he was already faced with a misdemeanor and the looming fear of jail time. Then he was presented with a choice. Aguilar could either carry out his sentence and do community serv...

The news that early-'90s cult classic TV show "Twin Peaks" would be rebooted, complete with the involvement of original co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, seemed like such a victory for fans of the series.

When I was not yet quite a teenager, I spent a few years studying the classical guitar under Dorothy De Goede. She was a strikingly beautiful woman who had been a student of Andre Segovia. I was, of course, in love with ...

A snail fights a knight. No one really knows why. Once upon a time in the Middle Ages, some artist spent a surprising amount of time painting a face on the butt of a horse. Fast forward to 2015, and social media users ce...

For a few days in May, Jim Parsons will be three distinct things at once: a lovable physics nerd, a lovable alien and a lovable God. The eighth season of "The Big Bang Theory" comes to a close on May 7. Two days before t...

The view looking into the dining room towards the back of the house and kitchen. The far wall with the Jazzfest posters and doorway is coming out in the reno. Name: Ed and Maggie Williams (of MVW Architect) Type of Proje...

The New York City police department says its Intelligence Division is investigating a giant sculpture of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden that was installed in a Brooklyn park early Monday morning. (...

22050 Ventura Boulevard 9 x 12 inches, oil on panel The Drive-Thru is a natural subject for me as I like to paint places that people don't go to be there, this one is a drive-thru pharmacy. 5138 Laurel Canyon Boulevard 9...

Hulu is here to help improve your GIF game. The streaming service launched The Perfect GIF, a Tumblr-based, searchable GIF bank featuring images from your favorite TV shows. And because Hulu owns the rights, the quality ...

Artists have started to explore new areas which are away from urban or industrial hubs, or areas which are abandoned. This trend is starting to gather momentum due to artist's search for places where they can show a diff...

This post, naturally, is filled with spoilers.At this point, scouring every detail of "Mad Men" for thematic clues has become hard-wired tradition. Remember when showrunner Matthew Weiner sent everyone into a tizzy tryin...