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In family history, the myths are often more fun than the facts. Perhaps you have a few in your own family lore. Maybe it's a story about your great-grandfather stowing away on a ship to come to America, or maybe it's the...

"It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas." Paul Cezanne Looking into the blank canvas of my day, I emerge riddled with the anxiety of uncertainty and restless with unknowing. Instead of baski...

"Can I see some hands raised? Who in the audience think of Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park as contextual?" (No hands raised.) "Who think of it as not?" (No hands raised.) "Since apparently none of ...

Diemut Strebe, Sugababe (2014) Pin it Are you hearing this? There's a living replica of Vincent van Gogh's famous ear currently being shown at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City.

Pin it Q: Hi! I just bought my first home (woohoo!) and I'm trying to reuse some of its original light fixtures. The dining room has a gold pendant light that I would like to sand or repaint to make it look a little more...

There's nothing like the warm spice and chew of a ginger molasses cookie. Come to think of it, when the temperature drops, molasses makes everything better. Just ask these 25 recipes. The post Maple Syrup, We Love You, B...

Wedding season may be winding down, but that didn't stop our readers who tied the knot this weekend from going all-out with their celebrations.  Check out some of the lovely photos from their big days below:  If you go...

It's impossible to kill your pet dog in "Fallout 4." Oddly, that's a problem. Hear us out. The latest game in the popular post-apocalyptic series launches Tuesday, and critics are predictably hailing it as a triumph. Tec...

Sophia is a project to collect life lessons from interesting people. Subscribe to get our updates directly via Facebook or email, or share your own wisdom. A decade ago, Glamour magazine declared Maya Shankar one of ...

Pin it Name & Location: Phoebe in North Carolina My Favorite Room: Living Room Specs: 200 square feet in a rental When my husband and I first got married and moved into our first apartment, I was not too sure what my dec...

PARIS -- The designer Iris van Herpen does not like computers, and for half of her adult life she happily did not have one. This is unusual because van Herpen is only 31, and many people would argue that she is the most ...

As 2015 winds to a close, Caitlyn Jenner can add "Newsmaker of the Year" to her ever-growing list of accomplishments.  The 66-year-old Olympic champion, who came out as transgender in an April interview with Diane Sawye...

Bill Gifford's book "Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying)" (Grand Central, $27) is a high-energy spin through the latest research, popular mythology and ancient wisdom on aging and …

Pin it Getting from one place to another in the winter, while keeping your coffee hot, is one of life's daily dilemmas. Some coffee shops give out the thin cardboard versions but they mostly protect you from the liquid. ...

Boosters of Old Town Alexandria are hoping that PBS's upcoming Civil war-era drama "Mercy Street" can do for tourism what "Downton Abbey" did for England's Highclere Castle, which has seen a huge uptick in foot traffic t...

This is how comedian Kathy Griffin wants the 2016 election to go down: Donald Trump gets elected, hilarity (briefly) ensues.In an interview with Billboard, the funnywoman endorsed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton ...

A fourth grader's answer to a math problem shows the power of "girl code." Maddy Douglas was filling out a worksheet for homework when she came across a question about the dating patterns of a group of high schoolers.  ...

Warning: Images below may be considered NSFW to some readers.  A new photography book shows that going all natural has never looked so good.  In her new book Unshaven, photographer Nikki Silver celebrates women who cho...

It's probably an understatement to suggest that Canadian electro-pop artist Claire Boucher has a complicated relationship with her alter ego, Grimes. Things started out fine, then got weird: There was a series of table-s...

Fall is the perfect season for sporting a berry-colored lip, so be sure to check out these five drugstore-brand lipsticks, which are not only high quality, but also very reasonably priced. It doesn’t get much […]

Disruptive technologies love to take over, but what if we could disrupt the disruptive, before it disrupts us? What if we could get ahead of the raw commercialism that tends to co-opt new technologies, as in video games ...

Pin it Some people like to live in their homes a little while before renovating them, to get a feel for the space and figure out what they want. Before embarking on his kitchen renovation, Barrin took plenty of time; he'...