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Pin it Name: Jennifer Location: Newbury Park, California Our home is a 1959 post and beam ranch home (1,143 square feet) on nearly one acre of horse property. We gutted 3/4 of the home, leaving original character such as...

Jane's Wall Collection Christmas Tree Pin it The holidays can be quite a struggle. The only thing tougher than trying to figure out what to buy for your cousin Madison is figuring out how to budget for all of the expense...

Pin it Maybe you have a big wall in your house or apartment that you're trying to fill. Have you considered a map? Maps are colorful, they're exciting, and they can serve as callbacks to places you've been that you've lo...

Pin it Name: Bela Location: Norfolk, Virginia I designed this bedroom for my eight year-old girl Bela. We both got really tired of her pink walls and thought it was time to freshen up a bit. I wanted to create a timeless...

Something important happened at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night, and it was an opera called "Appomattox." Another opera of that name, by Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton, had its world premiere in San Francisco ...

Christ Church Cathedral, a fixture in the heart of downtown Houston, sits just 6 sprawling Houston miles from Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church, the largest megachurch in the world. …

In the hours after the deadly terrorist attack in Paris, social media was filled with signs of solidarity. A photo of a cousin in front of the Eiffel tower. Your aunt saying she's praying. You scrolled through profile pi...

Acidity affects different species in fragile North Carolina estuaries Oysters, crabs respond differently to what's in the water …

A roomful of ballet lovers and some hot Latin tunes? Of course there was going to be a smoking dance floor at the Noche de Pasion fete for the Washington Ballet and its Latino Dance Fund.The event, the ballet's 6th annua...

It was a visibly shaken Matthias Pintscher who took the stage at the Library of Congress on Friday evening, only hours after the savage terrorist attacks that had swept across Paris. Asking for a minute of silence, Pints...

Conductor Jun Markl, who led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a flamboyantly colorful program at the Strathmore Music Center on Saturday, looks every bit the part of the elegantly energetic storybook conductor. He run...

Everybody knows Miss Patti can throw down in the kitchen.Patti LaBelle's macaroni and cheese is the stuff of legend. It's the sort of dish that would nudge even noted food elitist Gwyneth "I'd rather smoke crack than eat...

Pin it Name: Julie and Michael Martino Location: Doubleview, Western Australia Size: 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Years lived in: 17 Years; Owned Julie and Michael's home is truly one-of-a-kind. Designed by a Swiss architect ...

When you’re known as "Percilla the Monkey Girl" or "Julia the Baboon Lady,” your life is anything but ordinary. But the sideshow life could be empowering for women who were born different -- and those who demanded to...

When your job is to be funny, how do you do it in the wake of a tragedy?The answer, according to "Saturday Night Live": you don't.In an episode that aired the day after the deadly siege in Paris, the show skipped its muc...

It’s Michael Jackson … like you’ve never heard him before. The King of Pop’s “Smooth Criminal” has been remixed for a barrel organ. Frenchman Patrick Mathis filmed himself playing the 1987 smash hit on the b...

Karuna Ezara Parikh, a blogger from New Delhi, put her thoughts on the Paris attacks into verse, and it became the poem heard around the globe. "It is not Paris we should pray for. It is the world," her poem, which she p...

A Small & Swanky Thanksgiving Dinner Pin it Thanksgiving is like the Super Bowl of dinner parties. And your best manners need to be on point if you want to be a welcome and gracious dinner guest. After all, it's the best...

When Bryan Cranston gained worldwide fame as meth kingpin Walter White on "Breaking Bad," everybody commented on what a radical departure it was from his work as Hal, the father on family sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle." ...

Pin it I recently remodeled my kitchen and had leftover subway tiles. I decided to use the remaining tiles to redo my fireplace which I had been wanting to refinish completely since I moved in four years ago. I also want...

As Paris and the world continue to reel from the devastating attacks on the city Friday, artists everywhere have been taking to social media to share images and messages of solidarity, hope and peace. One such image, cre...

Pin it Hollywood power couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski have listed their weekend home in Ojai, California. The 4 bedroom is so perfect that it even has a white picket fence. It is on the market for $4.25 million.