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What The 'Ideal' Woman's Body Looks Like In 18 Countries
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 18:12
What does a "perfect body" look like? It depends who you ask -- and where they are. UK online pharmacy Superdrug Online Doctors recently created a project called "Perceptions Of Perfection" that features 18 photoshoppe...
A Peek at the Personal Art Collection of Swiss Gallery Director Stefan von Bartha
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 01:13
Stefan von Bartha. Courtesy von Bartha. To the Gallery Born: An Interview with Stefan von Bartha Whether as an artist, collector, dealer, or curator, we all can probably recollect, with relish or regret, our first introd...
Do Trigger Warnings On Campus Cause More Harm Than Good?
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 23:43
Trigger warnings, a means of preemptively alerting an audience to potentially distressing material, have been widely adopted by college professors recently as a way of reducing their liability from possible legal entang...
Thomas & Erin's Bright Spot -- House Tour
Apartment Therapy - 14 Aug 2015 23:00
Pin it Name: Thomas & Erin Galvin, with Olive the cat Location: Echo Park; Los Angeles, CA Size: 530 square feet Years lived in: 2 years; Rented As a new House Tour contributor, I thought the best way for us to get to kn...
Shop Costco on a Budget Like This Kitchn Editor's Mom -- The Kitchn
Apartment Therapy - 14 Aug 2015 22:30
Pin it On a recent trip back home to Minnesota, my mother and I filled the trunk of her car with cloth grocery bags and hit up the local Costco. I was about to see my mom's smart shopping in action. From The Kitchn ' I F...
Nuns 'n Roses: Dialogues des Carmélites at Caramoor
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 22:29
On July 25th, the Caramoor Festival presented the second and final of its Bel Canto at Caramoor operas for the 2015 season, Francis Poulenc's 1956 opera and love letter to the Catholic Church, Dialogues des Carmelites. T...
A Heartbreaking Story From One of the World's Most Transphobic Places
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 22:15
When President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law, he changed the lives of all LGBTI people in Uganda, one of the most dangerous countries for gay and transgender people. For my friend ...
Our Relationship Status With Tinder And Dating Apps: It's Complicated
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 22:02
After centuries of failed attempts, technology has finally, with the invention of geolocated dating apps, led to the downfall of Western civilization -- or so you might believe if you read a new Vanity Fair article that ...
Can Dubstep Bridge the Culture Gap? DJ Soltan Will Find Out
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 21:59
At this point, it's pretty much scripture that music brings people together. It makes new friends, ignites old flames, and addresses elephants in the room. But what happens when that model, that tried-and-true motif, is ...
This Twitter Account Will Teach You Words You Didn't Know You Needed
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 21:56
You know when you open a bag of Doritos and so much of it is air? What a chiptease. How about when you keep typing "teh" instead of "the" no matter what you do? You're so unkeyboardinated today. Feel like sipping a beer ...
How To Repair A Cord -- Apartment Therapy Tutorials
Apartment Therapy - 14 Aug 2015 21:30
Pin it In this world of electronic everything, knowing how to repair an electrical cord is probably a skill worth learning. It might seem intimidating- but it's not. At all. Pick up a few basic tools to help make the job...
Sargent, LinkedIn and the Right to Fame.
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 21:24
Vincent van Gogh's famous self-portrait eyeing internet surfers from the screen of a PC The spectacular exhibition of John Singer Sargent "Sargent Portraits of Artists and Friends" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Ne...
Jon Krakauer Says Climbing Mount Everest Was The 'Biggest Mistake' Of His Life
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 21:13
Author Jon Krakauer, who chronicled the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest in his bestselling book Into Thin Air, told HuffPost Live on Thursday that he deeply regrets ever embarking on climbing the mountain. "Climbing Mo...
Interview With the Founder, South Asian Performing Arts Festival NYC
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 21:09
Recently I had the privilege of spending a day with the multi-talented Arpita Mukherjee, co-founder of the South Asian International Performing Arts Festival (SAIPAF). Impressed with her vision, I decided within minutes ...
A fashion photo should evoke fantasies, but Beyoncé's Vogue cover coos familiar snippets about her brand
Washington Post - 14 Aug 2015 20:57
The thick September issues of fashion magazines are landing on newsstands: THWACK! They are such a big deal in the publishing world, companies brag about their advertisements appearing in them, as if they had not paid ha...
A fashion photo should evoke fantasies, but Beyoncé's Vogue cover coos familiar snippets about her brand
Washington Post - 14 Aug 2015 20:57
The thick September issues of fashion magazines are landing on newsstands: THWACK! They are such a big deal in the publishing world, companies brag about their advertisements appearing in them, as if they had not paid ha...
Why I Love The Word Factory
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 20:42
(Diriye Osman is photographed by Jaroslav Scholtz) For a writer whose work and aesthetic sensibility has a performative quality, I have a fear of performing my writing in public. The reason for my performance-related pan...
Llewyn's Vintage-Inspired Nursery on a Budget -- My Room
Apartment Therapy - 14 Aug 2015 20:30
Pin it Name: Llewyn Monroe (6 months) Location: Richmond, Virginia When it came to deciding on the style for my little man's room, I was going for an eclectic, vintage-inspired look that would allow me to incorporate spe...
Arthena Chats With Jed Ochmanek
The Huffington Post - 14 Aug 2015 20:07
Los Angeles-based artist, Jed Ochmanek, received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, and has since shown his work around the world. Best known for his paintings that feature oil-based enamel poured onto s...
Look We Love: The New Traditional
Apartment Therapy - 14 Aug 2015 20:00
Pin it I've always been more drawn to modern furniture and spaces, but lately some interiors with a decidedly more traditional bent have been catching my eye. It's a style that I think of as the New Traditional -- more o...
Toilet Humor: 10 Fun, Funny & Situationally Appropriate Prints for Bathroom Walls
Apartment Therapy - 14 Aug 2015 20:00
Pin it Serious Sallies, look away. These 10 prints are for the folks who like to have fun with their home. People who think any wall-even in the bathroom-is an opportunity for a little inside joke. For those of us who li...
The congressional kid: How a millennial plans to make it to the Capitol
Washington Post - 14 Aug 2015 19:50
Lindy Li hates to lose.In fact, she may not even know the meaning of the word.