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Pin it The Novogratz are always up for a challenge--but this might be their biggest yet. The family of fixers is renovating a castle in the Hollywood Hills, and filming it so all of us can follow along.

Q: My boyfriend bought me a baby sun conure for Valentine's Day and we are quite pleased with him. However, we read that a bird needs 10-12 hours of sleep every night so we try to cover him at 7 p.m. or so. The cage is i...

Willamette Valley produces three-fourths of Oregon's grapes for wine Pinot noir is the grape for which the region is most famous Here are the best, according to our expert. …

Pin it Q: I am the lucky owner of a 1950s condo with beautifully functional original bathrooms that are very pink! We discovered the pink pinwheel floor tiles when I ripped up the peel-and-stick tiles the previous owners...

(The Isle of Joy by Marion Peck. Image courtesy of the artist and Magda Danysz Gallery/Paris) To say artist Marion Peck has been busy is an understatement. She's about to embark on a solo show next week in Paris at Magda...

All of us, regardless of our calling, who put our best effort forward feel the sting of rejection at some point. Start ups fail, a great idea you propose gets rejected, you lose a job or are turned down for that opportun...

Pin it I loved a lot about Alex's Uptown New Orleans apartment. The natural light, the layers of textures and colors, the amazing shoulder-balancing cat. But the thing I loved most of all was his art collection. Deeply p...

There's a lot of Gateano Donizetti being seen at the Metropolitan Opera this season. There's the Tudor Queen cycle (Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux, all starring Sondra Radvanovsky), the sappy L'Elisir D...

Humanity is a synonym for mankind. But it's also a description of a set of values. For instance if you are treating a captured enemy in a humane way, with humanity, you're observing the Geneva Conventions. When ISIS's be...

The white platform is already showing traces of numerous visitors to Emma Sulkowicz's Self Portrait project at Coagula Curatorial gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles. The artist is one week into her three-week occupation o...

"NEXT TO NOTHING' is a show up at B Minus Studios of eleven paintings- one large one by Adam Harrison and ten small ones by myself. The paintings show a large hole in the ground and the surrounding area intended for a St...

(Poster image c. The Jewish Museum Berlin). The Jewish Museum Berlin has a hit in its stunning design of a long-awaited Boris Lurie retrospective making its way around the globe. Cilly Kugelmann, Program Director of the ...

With a bright career in the theater, cinema and television of Greece spanning some thirty years, Stratos Tzortzoglou can be considered one of the greatest Hellenic actors of his generation. Recently, he moved to New York...

As a casting director, and acting coach, I continually encourage you to continually expand upon your frame of reference in large part because, as a talent, you will be offered direction based on Pop-Culture references. I...

Reimagined by Urs Fischer for GARAGE Magazine. A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Feb 25, 2016 at 4:44pm PST "Mom, I hate reading!" - Youths of America "Read this book!" - Beyoncé Queen B graces the cover of art a...

A new video, simply titled "Body Image," and posted to artist Jody Steel's Facebook page has been viewed over 40 million times in the 24 hours since it was uploaded.   The video features a time-lapse of Steel's abdomen ...

Pin it Name: Brian and Dara Packer and their kids, Daphne, Maddox, and Amelia Jane Location: Ellicott City, outside of Baltimore, Maryland Size: 2,500 square feet Years lived in: 2 years; Owned Brian and Dara have had pl...

In an anxiously anticipated new story, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has transported her world of magical wizarding across the Atlantic -- and some Native American commentators are not happy with the result, saying ...

Banker invents the device to avoid having to carry 'the sinky poop bag' It's for sale online …

Faced with the increasingly possible possibility that Donald Trump could become president of the United States, hordes of Americans have been considering making a move up north."How to move to Canada" topped Google searc...

Two years ago, Nickolay Lamm launched Lammily dolls aka "Normal" Barbies to combat the unrealistic beauty standards girls face from a young age. Since then, the realistically-proportioned doll line has expanded with e...

Pin it Tiny houses are currently a sort of national obsession, which is not really that surprising because they are a novel, sustainable way to live, and also they are adorable. But most writing on tiny houses focuses a ...