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Iris wanted to better enjoy her balcony, but it took time to furnish on a budget. She ended up with a stylish space worth waiting for:

In the wake of the riots that have roiled Baltimore and sent National Guard troops into the city for the first time since 1968, I don't have lots of answers. I have a few questions, and I have a series of observations --...

Hipsters may value social progress, but their coffee habits say otherwise. That's according to the team at Made in a Free World (MIAFW), a group dedicated to raising awareness on how consumers support illegal slave opera...

Josh Groban gave the entire Internet chills when he dropped the first track from "Stages," his new album of Broadway covers. It was a version of "All I Ask Of You" from Phantom of the Opera," featuring vocals from Kelly ...

Photographer and art director Ian Pettigrew was working on a photo series he called "Just Breathe: Cystic Fibrosis" when he realized the majority of his models were beautiful young women. "'Salty Girls' sprung out from m...

In this car, Pavarotti would play second fiddle to the driver. Jeff Sullivan captured this video of his Uber driver beautifully belting out some opera and uploaded it to YouTube. "He was playing [opera] on his radio and ...

Project by: Whitney Walker of Farrington Lane Location: Charleston, South Carolina This project in Charleston was especially fun because it was a total surprise for the wife! While she was away in Africa on a medical tri...

Celeb: Michael Waltrip might have been known for winning the Daytona 500 twice and for breaking down the cars-zooming-in-circles action as a NASCAR analyst for FOX. But that was until the tall and not-exactly-graceful Ke...

Laura Heywood is vivacious, entrepreneurial and full of passion. She grew up in Oakland, California and, after attending the University of Puget Sound in Washington, found herself back in California to start her career a...

"Change in etiquette usually comes slowly, just as changes come slowly in the dictionary," wrote Amy Vanderbilt, in her book on manners, published more than half a century ago. Vanderbilt was wise not to qualify her stat...

Some guidelines on how to behave at a general admission concert over 90 decibels:On talking: We're all here to listen to music, so the nightclub whisper -- leaning over to speak directly into someone's ear -- is the best...

must confess: I am probably the rudest person at any dance performance I attend. Critics can be odd seatmates. We slip in at the last minute; we're too busy scribbling notes to applaud; we dash out before the bows. On to...

How is it that we ended up with one big idea governing museums, and such a self-destructive one? The museum, we hear ad nauseam, must be a space like any other, must not have its own rules, must not insist upon its own e...

Spend 500 or so meals a year eating away from home and you, too, might be compelled to pass along some golden rules for dining out. In essence, speak softly and commit to memory this schtick:Show up on time. Yeah, yeah, ...

Our era's curse is the phone, but theaters have a long tradition as rowdy places. In ­17th-century France, Molière had to tolerate cocky, talkative VIPs who insisted on sitting on the stage. That was common in London, ...

Anouska Beckwith (Artist) / Andi Potamkin (Andi) On May 2, 2015, British-born and Parisian-based artist Anouska Beckwith will present her first New York solo exhibition curated by Andi Potamkin at Three Square Studio. Tr...

If you've watched the trailer for the much-hyped "Black Mass," you may find yourself asking two questions: First, what is that accent Johnny Depp is working? And second, why does this feel so familiar?

If you've watched the trailer for the much-hyped "Black Mass," you may find yourself asking two questions: First, what is that accent Johnny Depp is working? And second, why does this feel so familiar? Depp, as real-life...

"We originally came into music a bridge builder, as a way to have something to offer as we were traveling," says Leah Song of the band Rising Appalachia. Song, her sister Chloe Smith, their guitar player and percussionis...

For Vancouver couple Emma and Greg Gavelis, Harry Potter has practically been a third member of their relationship. They met on dating site Plenty of Fish in 2011 and immediately hit it off when Greg wrote on his profile...

Music video mastermind and YouTube star Todrick Hall has done it again. Yesterday, he released his latest creation, a seamless mashup of 70 Beyoncé songs from all five of her albums, in his new video “4.” He styled ...

Music video mastermind and YouTube star Todrick Hall has done it again. Yesterday, he released his latest creation, a seamless mashup of 70 Beyoncé songs from all five of her albums, in his new video "4." He styled hims...