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Shena and George's Formerly Blighted, Beautifully Salvaged New Orleans Home Pin it The mind is a powerful thing. Instead of agonizing and cursing your way up the 64 dreadful, tiring stairs to your walk-up apartment, you ...

SEATTLE - If the walls of Hans and Leah Juhle's arts and crafts bungalow could talk ... well, that'd be unnerving for a minute or two, but then those glorious logs, posts and beams would launch into a multilayered tale c...

Her harshest critics continue their attempt to sink the "vagina kayak" artist. In an ongoing Japanese obscenity case, Megumi Igarashi heard Monday in Tokyo District Court that prosecutors want her to pay an 800,000-yen (...

Our dear friends have a daughter on the gymnastics team at the University of Michigan, so we found ourselves tuned into the Big Ten Network recently, marveling at the grace and strength of this young woman we adore and s...

PRINCETON, N.J. - Think "It's a Wonderful Life," and "Oliver!" - with a reptilian twist. …

Early on Christmas day, 2014, Cuban artist Danilo Maldonado, nicknamed "El Sexto," planned a performance piece inspired by Animal Farm. He had carefully painted, using bright red capital letters, the names "FIDEL" and "R...

In 1974, a newscaster in Sarasota, Fla., pulled out a gun and shot herself on live television. In today's world, countless people would have seen Christine Chubbuck's very public suicide on the internet afterwards, but b...

No. 4 David Horton "Camera is your Passport" I try to follow my heart with my camera. I try not to understand why I'm drawn to particular subjects or situations, but when I am, I like to follow those paths to see where t...

A heartwarming video featuring three young Syrian refugee brothers showing off their rap skills is part of a campaign to show the importance of going to school. Samir, Abdulrahman and Mohamed, aged 13, 12 and 9, are the ...

For almost five years, photographer and mom Leilani Rogers has been taking stunning images of birth in its many forms -- home births, hospital deliveries, water births, C-sections and more.  "Birth is considered by ...

Texas Wildflower Lecture Damon Waitt, director of the N.C. Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, will deliver a lecture on "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and Texas Wildflowers" at the JC …

Funds go to literacy programs at schools in Garner Many businesses participate and raise money East Garner Elementary wins 'Best Chili' …

According to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention, frequent hand washing is the number one way to prevent the spread of infections. But what kind of soap is appropriate? …

A whole new way to get your matcha fix. The post The Best Bottled Matchas to Fuel Your Habit On-the-Go appeared first on Bon Appétit.

Pin it Name: Christina Birch and Lars Fynbo and their two sons Location: Zealand, Denmark Size: 39 square meter (420 square feet) Years lived in: 8 years; Owned When Christina, a photographer, and Lars, a sociology profe...

Over the course of its first three episodes, the "Real Housewives of Potomac" -- a warts-and-all look at a circle of women who live in or ever so slightly around Potomac, Md. -- has left us scratching our heads more ofte...

Don't count Adele as a member of the "silent majority" of supporters that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump likes to talk about.The British power-ballad queen is distancing herself from the real-estate mogul, wh...

Q. After you wash your hands in a public restroom, which is better, hot-air blowers or paper towels? Where I work they have installed noisy dryers in some restrooms. I …

Here's a strange blessing for our times: May you live long enough to see a sensationally overblown news event that you can still vividly recall turned into a very good and even powerfully thoughtful TV miniseries a coupl...

Katy's Eclectic and Always-Changing London Flat Pin it DIY projects are synonymous with frustration, and even seasoned makers get both physically and emotionally stymied by the things that go wrong. It's hard to remember...

Q: Our 3-year-old son is very sweet, loving, and generally well-behaved. Occasionally, however, he breaks into a huge tantrum during which he becomes uncontrollable. The word "possessed" comes to mind. …

Pin it This 'before' bathroom might be the ugliest before I've ever seen -- and it's certainly one of the strangest. Years ago, the person responsible for retrofitting a bathroom into this one-bedroom apartment in a form...