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Over the two decades that I’ve called the Tampa area home, out-of-state friends typically phone for one of two reasons: to ask if they can crash at my father-in-law’s beach house, or to tease me about the latest Flor...

Eisenhower Memorial Commission chairman Rocco Siciliano will step down as leader of the board but will remain a member, he announced in an email sent Tuesday to commission members.Siciliano has led the commission since i...

Lucidity Festival in Santa Ynez, California is quickly becoming one of the most unique gatherings in the festival world. Occurring on the same weekend as the massively commercial Coachella in Indio, Lucidity offers a fes...

Saana & Olli's Tiny Turku Nest There are many reasons not to cover up your lighting cords. Sometimes cost is a factor. Sometimes architectural features don't allow for the change. Or it might need to be temporary so you ...

Last year Clay Aiken, the former "American Idol" runner-up, ran for Congress. He never had much of a chance of winning, running as a Democrat in a heavily Republican district against incumbent Rep. Renee Ellmers -- espec...

For black men, the world of fashion has often been one wrought with stereotypes, misconceptions and images of three-sizes-too-large T-shirts, baggy jeans and flashy chains. But the ongoing photo series "The Dandy Lion Pr...

Finally, there's an ice cream that feels your (menstrual) pain. College student Parker Jones created a series of fake ice cream flavors that every menstruating woman can fall in love with: "Ice Cream That Understands PMS...

There were no sword-tappings and no roundtables, but former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was formally named an "Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" at a private ceremony at th...

Papy Ebotani, Fanfare funérailles [Funeral brass], 2014-2015. Produced by Studios Kabako. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo by Alfredo Rubio. The reedy, plaintive cry of the mizmar undulates through the ai...

Several dozen major public art installations will burst onto display this weekend on San Francisco's main thoroughfare, part of a years-long effort to redesign Market Street in the midst of the city's tech-driven economi...

San Francisco Ballet's Program 6, Shostakovich Trilogy, opens Wednesday, April 8 and will run for seven performances through Sunday, April 19. A major hit of the 2014 season, the triptych choreographed by Alexei Ratmansk...

FX's "The Comedians," a sadly ill-conceived half-hour series premiering Thursday, tries to head critics off at the pass, framing itself as a bad TV show about the making of a bad TV show that stars two celebrities who ar...

Look closely, and you'll see that this arch house in Tokyo is actually two structures. Designed by Akio Nakasa of Japanese firm Naf Architect & Design, the pair slanted homes come together to form an arch with a slight g...

A man who reportedly communicated through drawing before learning the ability to speak and whose first word was pencil, the Spanish "piz," certainly seemed fated to become one of the most recognized artists of his centur...

Jennifer Lawrence who? On Monday night's episode of "Dancing With The Stars," "Hunger Games" actress Willow Shields -- who plays Katniss Everdeen's little sister, Prim, in the film series -- performed a contemporary danc...

Just because Metallica's "Enter Sandman" came out before Daniela, Paulina and Alejandra Villarreal were even born doesn't mean they can't appreciate the metal classic -- and do a killer cover of it. The three sisters fro...

Love is in the air, it's made from "recycled lies," and that's a good thing. Ahead of Ireland's gay marriage referendum in May, an Irish paper company by the name of Daintree has been taking anti-gay pamphlets and shredd...

Abigail Ahern So it might be a bit of a stretch to fit an Eames lounge chair into your 200 square foot studio apartment, but that doesn't mean you have to save the beautiful, iconic pieces for that time in the distant fu...

A brilliant "ring of fire" has been spotted in deep space, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a galaxy 12 billion light-years away. The near-perfect "Einstein ring" was captured at a super-high resolution of 23 milliar...

Lately I feel like I've been doing a lot of chasing, it hasn't really gotten me anywhere either as of late. Besides this series of photos, seriously. Between school and work, I never have the time to go do what I want, h...

Asked about George Balanchine's ultra-modern ballet "Agon," Arthur Mitchell once said, "It's not so much the difficulty of the steps or how flexible you are, it's the precariousness."Anxiety was in the air in 1957, when ...

"Me And Earl And The Dying Girl" basically dominated Sundance, walking away with the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Based on Jesse Andrews' book by the same name, the film finally has its first trailer, and it'...