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Francisco Goya's "La Maja Desnuda (The Nude Maja)" introduced the painting world to a provocative image involving a nude woman reclining and unabashedly directing her gaze at the viewer. Inspired by Goya's perspective, H...

Make no mistake: To love someone after you've had your heart broken in the past is an act of bravery -- but it's definitely worthwhile, as the illustrated comic below points out so beautifully.  The comic, illustrated b...

The World War One Centennial Commission has decided to go forward and endorse a winning design in the competition to create a new national memorial to the Great War at Pershing Park. Today, a design jury announced its se...

An actor's musical theater career should never peak with a high school production of "The Producers."Yet that dubious prospect kept nagging at 25-year-old Noah Robbins. Six years ago, the Potomac native went straight fro...

Pin it Q: I have just move into a rented apartment. The kitchen is fully furnished with lots of storage. But the entire wall is tiles and is BRIGHT yellow [see photo below]!!!! I can barely look before my eyes hurt. Plea...

It may come as a shock, but -- wait for it -- not everything that happens on "The Bachelor" happens organically. (We know, we know, we'll let you take a minute to recover from that extraordinary revelation.)  But all jo...

After a months-long hiatus, "The Bachelor" franchise has returned, this time with all-American family man Ben "Unlovable" Higgins at its center. And on "Here To Make Friends," we talk about all of it -- for the right re...

An artist from the United Kingdom has compiled some of the most appalling language to come out of Donald Trump's trap and turned these collective statements into a beautiful work of art. To create the portrait, Conor Co...

Character actor Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sad-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series "Barney Miller" and the doomed Mafia soldier in "The Godfather," died Tues...

Raleigh woman had gift certificate tucked away in purse She was saving it for a special occasion Life got in the way until earlier this month …

Pin it Name: Isaac Orloff and his dogs, Sammy and Roo Location: Dogpatch -- San Francisco, California Size: 900 square feet Years lived in: 2 months Animator Isaac Orloff and his two pups, Sammy and Roo, have found a hom...

This woman is redefining what it means to be “malcriada.” When the Peruvian newspaper Tome started to publish photos of scantily clad women in a section labeled “Malcriadas,” local woman Kelly Elfaro decided to r...

There's a story behind every recipe New York Times tracks milky beef to its source …

Mary Beard's history of ancient Rome, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Senatus PopulusQue Romanus), offers disturbing lessons for 21st century America. Efforts to draw direct parallels can be too forced. But as countless...

Dimore Studio Pin it As a design blogger I'm always on the lookout for new trends, always trying to suss out which direction interior design will take next. Right now I feel that we're moving towards something a little m...

You may have taken a few panoramic pics on your iPhone, but these photographs, taken by Randy Scott Slavin, will make you rethink the entire format. Slavin, a New York City-based director, started taking these amazing 36...

Properly shaking up a cocktail requires serious muscles. So we consulted a fitness expert and personal trainer to give us the ideal workout for toning up those arms. (We're serious.) The post The Cocktail Shaker Workout:...

Something was a little different in the Senate on Tuesday morning. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski noticed it.The Alaska Republican was one of only a few lawmakers in the Capitol building following the weekend blizzard, and it w...

Consider the power of a bell. It can stop a pummeling round of boxing, welcome a guest to a home or begin a day of school. It celebrates weddings, it tolls for the dead. On Wall Street a bell is the nonverbal equivalent ...

The World War I Centennial Commission has chosen a memorial design that incorporates some of the elements of Pershing Park, the site along Pennsylvania Avenue where it will be built.The competition jury unanimously recom...

Belle at the Jones House is closed for failure to pay taxes, according to NC Department of Revenue It opened in 2014 as part of downtown Cary revitalization efforts The town spent $255,000 to help renovate the Jones Hous...

On a whim last week, 22-year-old comedian Elijah Daniel decided to become a purveyor of political erotica: "I'm going to get drunk tonight and write an entire donald trump sex novel like 50 shades of grey & put it on ama...