Life Style News

According to the Rent Guidelines Board's annual report this week, landlords only experienced a .5% increase in operating costs last year, the smallest increase since 2002. It's looking like, come June, New Yorkers might ...

A killer vinyl collection is a thing of pride -- and an awesome way to enjoy and listen to music at home. But unlike its more modern digital brother, record collections can take up A LOT of space in a home, as well as ne...

"Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second," young poet Mattie J.T. Stepanek once said. We know how he feels. It's not easy to pick a single hue from the spectrum when drinking them all up at once is so ve...

Name: Mike Location: San Antonio, Texas The house was only the second one I ever looked at and though it needed a lot of work, it spoke to me right away. My dad and I did all the renovation -- a complete gut -- over the ...

I'm an avid blog reader, and include sites from near and far, and by bloggers both famous and virtually unknown, on my daily must-read list. Since moving to London nine years ago, I've added more and more UK-based blogs ...

If you haven't signed up for Tidal-- Jay Z's new streaming music service-- yet, here's a potential incentive. Exec Vania Schlogel says Jay, Jack White, and other artists have been phoning fans to say thanks for streaming...

Do songs have feelings? I am just crazy enough about a great many songs to take this preposterous question to heart. If you prick a song, does it bleed? If you tickle it, does it laugh? If you poison it, does it die? If ...

Dena picked up this pair of Danish chairs at an antique market. The fabric was nasty, the finish not great, but she saw the potential. They look much more modern and fresh now:

Fresh flowers are one of life's ultimate indulgences: they're beautiful, they're fabulous, they're gone before you know it. Here are 14 gorgeous, ephemeral arrangements from our House Tours and a discussion of just what ...

Your kitchen cabinets are the face of your kitchen. A large surface area, they take up a lot of actual space in nearly everyone's kitchen, as well as command a lot of attention. Whether or not your kitchen cabinets are c...

Source: Tracy Hardenburg Designs When a sofa is floated in a room, the long blocky back can be a big visual roadblock. Many people place a console or "sofa table" of the same height behind the sofa to mitigate this effec...

Happy Record Store Day! Curbed mapped all the plants where vinyl is pressed in the US. Since physical records are continuing to make a comeback, the demands on these dozen presses are high.

The straight-back sofa style might be the norm, but sofas with curves are making a comeback! No longer just for gracing magazine pages or the homes of the rich and famous, the curved sofa can now be found in many mass-ma...

What's the price of justice? That was the question explored on this week's episode of "Scandal" which, despite Papa Pope's return, was kind of a downer.But the episode was big on continuity. David Rosen continued to lead...

Playwright Arden Kass doesn't just want you to know the statistics regarding school funding disparities in Pennsylvania -- that the state's poorest schools receive 33 percent less in state and local funding per pupil tha...

What is the "serious criticism" of architecture? Blair Kamin's criticism of the "TRUMP" sign in Chicago sparked a nationwide debate about private influence on public space. (Photo by Nathan Weber, The New York Times.) In...

Fancy yourself a painter? Still dreaming of college art seminars? You may not be able to commit to taking ongoing classes in your day-to-day life, but a weekend getaway at an inn could double as a time for some serious a...

April 20th is upon us once again. To celebrate cannabis culture's "high-holiday" we had Etch-a-Sketch artist Bryan Madden recreate the iconic image of a puffing future President Barack Obama. While Obama has openly discu...

Attempting documentary photography and not feeling compassionate love for people would be pointless as far as I am concerned. I love feeling the humanity in other people's eyes, to guess at what they are feeling, to lock...