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Paper mâché is an art form usually reserved for kids and camp goers, but why should they have all the fun? Whether you're prepping for a fiesta and need to make a piñata, or you're just looking for a fun creative outl...

Depending on where you live, "sitting outside with a glass of rosé" season is possibly approaching or already in full swing. These 10 spaces demonstrate that whether you have a fully furnished rooftop or a folding chair...

Blair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. His father is a police officer and his mother is a fire department chief, and that's w...

Robert Galbraith is back with yet another Cormoran Strike crime novel. J.K. Rowling will publish Career of Evil, the third book under her pseudonym, and it will be released in the fall, according to Little, Brown's UK Im...

It was a year of transition.At 48 and recently divorced, I moved from the suburbs to a transitional D.C. neighborhood and began transforming a 1910 rowhouse into a home that would embrace my children and their future fam...

Michelle Mackey, Dirt Jetty, 14" x 16", latex and gouache on duralar, 2013 (all images courtesy of the artist) This is the third of a series of interviews that focus on Local 829's Scenic Artists, the "behind the scenes"...

Edward Gorey's work dwelt at the intersection of visual art and literature. He published over 100 books before his death in 2000, yet many of them contained no words at all -- only his distinctively unsettling Edwardian-...

The absurdity inside many of Broadway comedies, a world where anything can happen, comes through in full force this season in the new Living on Love, playing at the Longacre Theater. As opera star Raquel De Angelis, Ren�...

Flying has become a routine activity for humans, and yet it never can be. Every defiance of gravity carries perils, and fliers who have become accustomed to intercontinental hops now plan risky courses for Mars and beyon...

  Growing up in Poland, Anya Cole learned to knit at 9. It became a passion, second only to dancing. Even after she became a professional ballet dancer, she made her own sweaters and legwarmers, knitting to kill time du...

Fourth-grader Scout is struggling to keep her composure during a parent-teacher conference as the teacher expounds upon the character-building aspects of having failed a math quiz. She fixes her tearful gaze in the dista...

"With just my imagination, I create a speculation," sings J.M. Barrie, the writer of the immortal Peter Pan to his four young friends. The friends, of course, are the Llewelyn Davies boys that Barrie (Matthew Morrison), ...

On April 28, Mary-Louise Parker and Bruce Willis will host the nomination announcement for the 2015 Tony Awards. If the past is any guide, the live webcast of the event will trigger a five-week onslaught of media coverag...

Eight Degrees of "Eddie and the Cruisers": What you need to know about the seemingly ignored 1983 film about fictitious rock god Eddie Wilson

When mom Renee Bergeron took superhero-themed photos of her son with special needs, the little boy was so overjoyed with the experience that she decided to offer her services to other children like him. The result is an ...

This article originally appeared on Profoundly Human An analysis of how Lizzy Grant became one of the biggest stars of our time by creating an illusion of nostalgia. via Flickr Just about to embark on her Endless Summer ...

Delia Gonzalez's debut titled In Remembrance is released on April 28, 2015 through DFA Records. This is not an average record release. This record has taken several years and is part of a larger multimedia project. In Re...

In the same vein as Sea Bags and the Maine Float Rope Doormat, let me introduce you to another recycled nautical product from the New England area. Meet the Bicycle Trap Basket by Kettle Cove Enterprises.

Photographer Jade Beall wants to create a new kind of site for women -- one that features unaltered portraits taken by photographers around the world, accompanied by the subjects' stories. (Some images below may be consi...

With more than one million companies run by women -- more than one-third of the country's total -- Poland is one of Europe's leading centers of female entrepreneurship. Many of these businesses were set up during the yea...

His is a presence that is impossible to miss, even in an arena filled with thousands upon thousands of enthusiastic patrons. He doesn't walk, but marches gleefully through our All Access Pre-Show festivities, with the wi...

At 6:00 a.m., I would wake up and jump out of the bed to quickly get ready for middle school and high school at the Davidson Fine Arts School in Augusta, Georgia, and just before getting on the bus, which left at 6:50 a....