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Pin it Q: My husband and I picked up a fantastic shag rug from West Elm a few months ago. So excited was I by the prospect of digging my toes into its plush woolly depths on cold wintry mornings in the future, I didn't s...

Fanis' Scandinavian Modern Studio Pin it Wish you had a living room, bedroom, kitchen or some other room flooded with natural light...but you're stuck dealing with a few dinky windows that just aren't getting the job don...

According to "Mean Girls," Halloween is the one day a year when a person can dress up like a total nerd and no one else can say anything about it. And, even better, everyone has to guess each others' costumes or risk bei...

Pin it This was our very first Big Reveal contest, and you the community, as always, did not disappoint! We saw some truly amazing transformations amongst our 132 contestants, from people who completely gutted their kitc...

Derek Trucks and I collaborated on this in 2004 when he was just a wee pup. It has stood the test of time. 1. Just listen. Make sure that when you're on stage with others, you are paying attention to what's going on and ...

Pin it Name: Emily and Zack Location: Fishtown --Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Back in June, my husband Zack and I made an unexpected decision: we left our two-bedroom apartment in the posh Rittenhouse Square neighborhood o...

It is undeniable that music can be a powerful force in tearing down cultural curtains, promoting social justice and empowering the kind of social transformation that we saw inspired by Louis Armstrong to Elvis to Sammy D...

Do you feel like your religion isn't the stable rock you wish it was? Well, it's time you gave a good, long look at the Church of Satan. The Second City thinks it may be the right fit for you and your devious lifestyle. ...

Prince Harry has impressive beard-growing abilities, uses his royal status to shed light on important issues, and has an unfortunate tendency to manspread.  Manspreading is a wide-legged, space-hogging male phenomenon...

All reality TV producers have to prepare for worst-case scenarios when they're getting ready to air a live event. Jodi Tovay's worries are a bit more unusual, because she is sending paranormal investigators into a house ...

In honor of what would have been Bob Ross' 73rd birthday, the online streaming service Twitch will be serving up "The Joy of Painting" in its entirety, beginning at 2 p.m. Pacific Time today. That's 403 episodes. That's...

This article first appeared on QuietRev.com When should parents encourage cautious children to push beyond their fears, and when should they respect their innate sense of limits? Below is advice from well-known research...

For the first time, one photographer and artist is sharing a selection of his photos that document a specific queer experience for many men who have sex with men in New York City. Thomas Roma is a photographer who used t...

Some people look at a pit bull's big blocky head, and feel afraid. Photographer Lynn Terry feels inspiration. "They have that perfect shaped skull that is photogenic at any camera angle. They are typically energetic and...

Mellow ease was raised to virtuosic heights in the Jason+Ronald K. Brown/Evidence program at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on Wednesday night. Jason Moran, the center's artistic director for jazz, primed us for m...

Pin it Got an amazing bathroom you've spent a lot of time, money, and/or energy on? Got kids who needs a night light, bath toys, and/or those sweet hooded towels? If your bathroom decor involves wood, plants, and a beaut...

Playboy magazine has announced it will no longer publish pictures of nekkid women starting in March. While high school librarians are no doubt thrilled to finally be able to offer …

Frederic Lecloux has been in and out of Nepal numerous times in the past 20 years. Yet, he still doesn't know why. Perhaps it's the disorder, he states in his Photo Kathmandu bio; "a certain link between my own disorder ...

Hamed Sinno, the lead vocalist for Lebanese band Mashrou Leila, checked Google Weather and packed accordingly before he left for New York, where the band would kick off its first-ever North American tour. “Them fuckers...

There's little reason to waste 85 minutes watching Jason Mann's "The Leisure Class," a tonally troubled and reprehensibly dull movie that premieres on HBO on Monday night -- unless you've been sucked into the clash of eg...

Since returning to television after a 10-year hiatus, HBO's "Project Greenlight" has created quite a stir, certainly far more than it ever did when Ben Affleck and Matt Damon created it in 2001.In its fourth season, the ...

Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si': On care for our common home, takes its title from a prayer composed by his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. Laudato si means "praise be to you." In The Canticle o...