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Michelle Gagliano is a painter who lives in Scottsville, Virginia. She co-owns FOCUS Contemporary Art and is the Artistic Director for the Scottsville Center for Arts and Nature. FOCUS and SCAN will host Ms Gagliano and ...

Warning: This article contains nudity and may be not be suitable for work. The rhetoric surrounding nude photographs of women is often brimming with language like "graphic," "explicit," "objectified," "sexualized" and "...

TAMPA -- Donald Trump's penchant for abusing reporters is well known. He disparages them as "dishonest,""troublemakers," and "scum," and sometimes he calls them out by name. At his rallies, he pens in the press like catt...

Pin it Name & Location: Courtney in Midtown -- Tulsa, Oklahoma My Favorite Room: Living Room Specs: 180 Square Feet This room is special to my husband and me because it is where we met! Since then, we got married, I move...

"I don't know how to write for women." Is a phrase I hear on a regular basis from male writers. I look at them puzzled, "Just write a great story and then make your character female." Is my standard answer. This is an in...

Pin it One thing I learned from watching Ellen's Design Challenge? Making furniture is HARD. But there's a cheat for us regular people--the UX4 bracket set from Swenyo that lets you turn regular 2x4s into a custom table....

Pin it Q: I bought a sofa and two chairs from [company redacted]. They were delivered within the timeframe agreed on. Two hours later, we couldn't even go in the living room. The furniture reeked with a kind of chemical/...

Iceland has become one of the hottest destinations for adventure seekers and foodies alike due to its majestic lunar landscapes, pristine glaciers, heavenly food, and warm, welcoming people.  In the summer months, touri...

Hey, isn't that... Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny and his wife, Fionnuala, tucking into some steaks at cozy Martin's Tavern in Georgetown on Monday night?The PM was in town for a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, w...

Richard T. Scott's AMERICANA is an exhibition of paintings that aims for the core of what has happened to the American dream. Interesting that they are being shown in Paris but, as Scott knows from living abroad for year...

(All times Eastern)On "The Middle" (ABC at 8), Sue and Axl get their wisdom teeth removed and Frankie relishes in being able to take care them. Brick takes the opportunity to try and introduce some new house rules to his...

Canal Zone 6, 2015, by Judith Belzer, 40h x 40w in oil on canvas. Courtesy: George Lawson Gallery It has been a great adventure to follow Judith Belzer's work over the last decade. She first arrived in Berkeley in 2003 a...

Chandler Bing as the "Lion of the Senate?"When cable network REELZ announced Tuesday that it had cast Matthew Perry as the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in an upcoming miniseries, "Friends" fans (yep, they still exist) might hav...

Howard Finster Contemplates his Mortality. C. early 1990s. Photo: Ricardo Viera This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most charismatic, productive, and celebrated visionary folk (aka self-taugh...

Rachel Platten, who turns 35 years old this spring, is just getting started as a pop star. Like Roy Hobbs of "The Natural," she came seemingly out of nowhere and scored big hits in what is typically a younger person's ga...

Pin it Name: Craig and Tessa Harding, Ted the dog, and Bear Grylls the cat Location: Cape Town, South Africa Size: 160 square meters (1,722 square feet) Years lived in: 5 years; Owned Tessa and Craig's down-to-earth home...

Although FX's series "The Americans" has been praised for its nuance, it creates a cloak-and-dagger world where tools never fail, master plans almost always work out and the best spies always win.Real spies know that wor...

Foundations: Oscar Wilde and the Origins of Photo Copyright In 1882 a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde arrived in New York City. Wilde's best-known works, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, were still...

If mass school shootings seem commonplace in 2016, they were anything but in 1966, when a student killed 17 people and injured 31 at the University of Texas-Austin. It remained the first and deadliest campus massacre in ...

As FX's gripping, magnificent Cold War drama "The Americans" jumps into its fourth season Wednesday night with its usual hypertension, its makers are always quick to remind us that their show is first and foremost about ...

NEW YORK -- Self-consciousness seems a strange affliction for an actress. But Laura Benanti used to experience such a profound case of it at the end of a performance that curtain calls became for her a mini-ordeal.

A handful of Triangle bakeries will be celebrating Macaron Day North Carolina on March 20. …