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Carly & Scott's Colorful Collected Apartment Pin it Are you over-complicating your life at home? Be honest. We all over-complicate sometimes. But home should be the place you try and keep things as simple as possible, so...

Pin it Name: James (9), John (7), Margaret (5) Location: Woodley Park, Washington, D.C. My three kids share a bedroom in our 2-bedroom DC apartment. I wanted to give them each personal space for sleep, treasures, and lou...

The computer failures at the Library of Congress that have crippled the U.S. Copyright Office since last week also have shut down the electronic services of the National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

Music superstars have come together to stress the importance of protecting our environment.  A group of artists, including Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi and Sheryl Crow recorded "Love Song to the Earth" -- a new song ded...

The artists of "Nature in the Walkable City" may not all have architectural training, but the District Architecture Center show does emphasize precise rendering. Whether depicting flowers or buildings, animals or statues...

Pin it Name: Yigit Pura Location: Nob Hill -- San Francisco, CA Size: 570 square feet Years lived in: 8 months -- own When Yigit decided to take the leap and buy an apartment in the city, he wanted a home that intrigued ...

(This is the third installment in a series that looks at the most fascinating, intriguing — or in some cases, disturbing — celebrity news of the week.) Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj are both in feuds with celebrities....

(This is the third installment in a series that looks at the most fascinating, intriguing -- or in some cases, disturbing -- celebrity news of the week.)Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj are both in feuds with celebrities. Th...

When there's only a few days remaining you try and choose carefully, you read the official program guide, you ask fellow audience members for recommendations or more often than not, you choose according to what time it i...

I'm a Canadian who permanently moved to the U.S. in 2013. Los Angeles, to be specific. Got me a green card n' everything, which after legal and processing fees -- plus enough paperwork to make a filing clerk crouch into ...

Alex Gibney is arguably the hardest-working man in documentaries. Ten years after his Oscar-nominated breakout, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," and eight years after his Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side," the...

A Catholic priest has built a small-scale version of the Vatican -- complete with nuns in black robes, Swiss Guards, and a tiny, waving Pope Francis. Rev. Bob Simon, pastor of Pennsylvania's St. Catherine of Siena churc...

Betre Gizaw almost blew his chances with Marti Tesfaye on their first date. The problem? He wasn't aware they were on one.The two met in 2007 after Marti, then an undergraduate at Columbia University, stumbled upon a pho...

Newly arrived in Manhattan with his wife and infant son, 33-year-old Gabriel García Márquez plunked down $200 for a month's stay at the Hotel Webster and set about establishing himself as a professional writer.

"I wish that my family stays safe, healthy & happy.""I wish for social justice.""Everlasting success and an abundance of animals and happiness.""I wish to finally learn how to love myself flaws in all."

It was time to go. "The memories I have, and the house I still own are both filled with stuff adorning a life I no longer live, feelings that I no longer have," Kim Gordon wrote in her powerful and poetic memoir, "Girl i...

  Alejandro Vigilante, inspired by the world of the internet, is an influential figure in pop art. Painting the iconic figures of the century and their interactions with the internet, his work reflects on the contempor...

From her shots of clichéd latte art to perfectly filtered shots of sunsets, we're pretty sure that "Hipster Barbie" is mocking us on social media.  Hipster Barbie -- whose official Instagram name is Socality Barbie�...

The boys of Well-Strung: The Singing String Quartet are closing out their busy summer with their latest pop-classical confection. First violinist Edmund Bagnell, second violinist Chris Marchant, violist Trevor Wadleigh ...

"Ideas alone can be works of art," Sol LeWitt explained in his epic "Sentences on Conceptual Art," a pretty brilliant primer on the ins and outs of modern art making. Ideas "need not be made physical," he continued. "A w...

Pin it Here's a kitchen look that we can't get enough of: new kitchens that look old. If you love Shaker cabinets and soapstone counters and weathered woods and farmhouse sinks, you're in for a real treat.

It's an all-girl supergroup like no other: Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde, Jamaican-born singer Grace Jones, Sleater-Kinney guitarist and "Portlandia" star Carrie Brownstein, folkie Jewel, punk poet Patti Smith and 197...