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Jim Vance, the anchorman who has been synonymous with local TV news in Washington for more than 40 years, will step down as the co-anchor of the 11 p.m. newscast for WRC (Channel 4) at the end of May, the station said We...

Daft Punk at O2 Wireless Festival, July 16, 2007, by Fabio Venni via WikiMedia Commons As the old saying goes, better late than never. That could apply to the arrival of electronic dance music or EDM to the mainstream. C...

When photographer Anna Angenend's friends were preparing to send their preschool-aged kids to school in August 2014, she was gearing up for another year of messy adventures at home with her toddler daughter Mia, who wasn...

I love it when an artist shows me the beauty in the everyday. That's what I saw when I wandered into the Bjork exhibit recently at the Museum of Modern Art and encountered her music video for "I've Seen It All." The song...

Name: Karuna (6) & Ora (3) Location: Mill Valley, California Having a dedicated space for art and creative exploration is important to us as a family. We used to have a small art desk in our living room, but once our sec...

Curbed interviewed Katie Stout, winner of Ellen's Design Challenge, while tasking her to make something for her new apartment (she decided on this concrete nightstand molded with traffic cones). When asked what she would...

There were years when I attended the Los Angeles Festival of Books with the eager anticipation of an avid reader who likes nothing better than to stroll outdoors and wander into open-air bookstores. Readings by my favori...

Hey isn't that... Ivanka Trump, the legacy businesswoman currently waving the magic wand that will transform the Old Post Office building into a luxury hotel, having a power lunch with D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wedne...

The first in a series of big voices in small theater Small theater is one of the most welcoming places for fresh new voices. In this series I will begin to prove why. Introducing Mrs. Tjasa Ferme -- One of New York's fin...

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a single plane. -- Max Ernst Lori Shocket: The Human Element Project One thing art does better than langu...

Alice Barker was a chorus dancer during the Harlem Renaissance and just celebrated her 102nd birthday, but she had never seen herself on film. Until now. David Shuff met Barker while working with his therapy dog at the B...

In a play where he has been surrounded by immeasurable talent - from Nathan Lane to Martin Short to F. Murray Abraham to Stockard Channing to (need I go on?) - Micah Stock stands out as the little-known but bright rising...

In the thought-provoking and darkly hilarious new Broadway play, Hand to God, Jason, a well-meaning soft-spoken teenager, creates a hand puppet from a gray sock, red fuzz and some felt. Jason's mother is convinced that a...

"Bringin' history to life while we zoomin' in on pictures/ B*tch check the zeitgeist, generation fixture!" With lyrics like that, who could argue that American director and documentarian Ken Burns shouldn't have a rap so...

The following article is provided by Rolling Stone. By BRIAN HIATT "You've got to help me with this ankle bracelet - it shocks me if I try to go to Warner Bros.," says Joss Whedon. The writer/director of "Avengers: Age o...

What will our kitchens be like in ten years? How will food delivery, storage, cooking and waste management change? IKEA has some predictions: they imagine a world of megacities, small-home living, water and energy scarci...

Think Girl Scouts have the lock on being prepared? You haven't met the veteran attendees of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, a grizzled bunch of media types who wouldn't dream of going into battle...er, arriving a...

While issues like global warming and deforestation plague our world, a rapper is here to remind us that not all hope is lost -- we really can do something about it. In a video entitled "Dear Future Generations, Sorry," o...

Though the famed Marshall Tucker Band has racked up fans from multiple generations with a career spanning 40-plus years, the group has had a distinct spike in attention and sales the last several years. Sure, they still ...

Though the famed Marshall Tucker Band has racked up fans from multiple generations with a career spanning 40-plus years, the group has had a distinct spike in attention and sales the last several years. Sure, they still ...

"One of the last things I ever saw before completely losing my sight was the planet Saturn," John Bramblitt recalls wistfully. "I'd seen photos of it before, but seeing it in real life through a lens ..." He trails off a...

It's that time of the year again, when a super-packed schedule of French film premieres reigns at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, where sold-out crowds of cinemaphiles, Francophones and Frenchies delight i...