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Stink bugs emerge this time every year, shaky from their deep winter sleep, to migrate to their summer homes in trees outdoors. They are just one of the many creepy crawlies you might encounter at home, and come with the...

Theater Review: There is a new Hamlet in town, and Peter Sarsgaard has his back, giving this poetic youth of the ages a crisp, nuanced, and strikingly modern voice. This Hamlet is fresh faced and wears a hipster's suit a...

Looking back on childhood, why did we all hate going to school so much? It was an opportunity to get together with friends to read and learn and play and sleep. While we can't bring back nap time, we can absolutely get b...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The mysterious artists who planted a bust of Edward Snowden on a Revolutionary War monument now want to free their sculpture from police custody and display it again, saying it was intended as a thought-...

When Walter Scott was shot and killed by a police officer in South Carolina earlier this month, artist Loring Cornish closed his gallery and began working on a new exhibition outside of his work studio in Baltimore, Mary...

In a recent online chat, I answered questions about weddings, including all new issues, such as a gay man whose partner has not been invited to his niece's wedding, transgender situations and Indiana's religious freedom ...

Manny Pacquiao's latest hit carries more emotional impact than physical heft. Which, for a world champion boxer, is saying something. Ahead of his highly-anticipated fight with Floyd Mayweather early next month, the Fili...

What's the "right" way to play Anton Chekhov? With your heart on your sleeve? Morose and weepy, cued by all the fruitless yearning and bitter regret rippling through the plays? Or, because of the good doctor Chekhov's cl...

For 13 years, New York's Museum of Sex -- MoSex for short -- has enlightened, educated and titillated patrons with a variety of explicit exhibits covering all aspects of sexuality. How explicit? Well, visitors who step f...

Not sure if you saw, but Dennis Quaid has gone viral. Maybe not a sentence you thought you would read today, given that the "Far From Heaven" actor hasn't been in the spotlight in a while, but welcome to the Internet.

Not sure if you saw, but Dennis Quaid has gone viral. Maybe not a sentence you thought you would read today, given that the “Far From Heaven” actor hasn’t been in the spotlight in a while, but welcome to the Intern...

I'm not sure that anyone really knows exactly when the habit of collecting was initiated, but I suspect that early humankind was at least near the front of the line to claim bragging rights. The first official collector,...

The sharing-economy movement has already shaken up the lodging (Airbnb) and transportation (Uber, Lyft) industries. Could porn be next? For adult filmmaker Erika Lust, the answer is yes (yes yes). Last year, Lust launch...

"Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty has a new book out. Titled "Finding Peter," it's part comic memoir, part argument for life after death. Blatty, a lifelong Catholic, lays out a number of curious incidents -- electr...

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Who needs a helicopter tour when you've got a drone? This stunning photo series from photographer Amos Chapple features crystal-clear images of bucket-list tourist sites -- mostly in India and Russia -- that were shot en...

What does an artist (or any human being, for that matter) do after realizing he has been channeling his creativity to fulfil someone else's expectations? In an art world where the difference between fashion and art is bl...

Filwa Nazar, Micro Chat. 2014. A Saudi Arabian woman is like a flightless bird. So wrote the famed Saudi activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider in 2010, while looking out on the Gulf of Mexico after the worst oil spill in U.S. hist...

By Justin Quirk, April 14, 2015. Ever since Marcel Duchamp posed the Dadaist question with his readymades, "Can one make works of art which are not "of art," the boundaries of art have been a flexible, permeable thing. W...

Ella loses her hat in Cheatin' Bill Plympton is not a genius, or so he insists, although none of his thousands of fans would be shocked if a MacArthur "Genius Grant" came his way. This former contributor to Playboy, The ...

Okay I admit it. When I see your child chewing with her mouth open, or sitting on her cell phone every spare second she's not in class, maybe I judge you a little bit. Maybe I have a moment, before the moment where I ask...

Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture is an innovative and insightful book series that is being developed around a series of questions. By doing so, it will most certainly elevate the conversation around contemporary scu...