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(All times Eastern.)FINALE WATCH: In the Season 3 finale of "Black Sails" (Starz at 9 p.m.), the pirates face an attack from Rogers and his army, and Billy crowns a king.Sunday talk shows: "Fox News Sunday" (Fox at 9 a.m...

City funding for the Fillmore Arts Center will remain intact -- at least for another year.D.C. Public Schools almost nixed funding that allows more than 1,500 elementary school students at five schools to commute weekly ...

San Francisco Magazine Max Cherney Oscar Bolton Green This is one smokin’ town.   This story is part of our April 2016 cover story “The City Report Card,” a 24-part assessment of the true state of San Francisco. W...

Photo by Pai-Shi Lee, Creative Commons via Flickr. While some of us go all-out during National Poetry Month, using it as a time to challenge ourselves with myriad iterations of how to read a poem and how to write a poem,...

San Francisco Magazine Andrea Powell Kevin Wong/Creative Commons S.F.’s library system shows other cities how it’s done.   This story is part of our April 2016 cover story “The City Report Card,” a 24-part asses...

Pin it Name: Wes Location: Golden Gate Heights -- San Francisco, California I live in a 700 square foot apartment, built in 1959, above Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Popular bookstore will open in permanent North Hills location by June 1 Temporary space was needed while the new space undergoes construction for a second floor Loyal customers are finding their way to the new location �...

Because we're keeping the Women's Voices initiative in mind even though Washington's groundbreaking fall festival is done (and we are, aren't we?), let's wrap our heads around this one more time: D.C.'s only steady resid...

A steady stream of North Carolinians visits Haiti to do charitable or mission work. Haitians are energetic and entrepreneurial but poverty pervades. "You want to fix it," says one regular visitor. "You have to learn to l...

Alas, poor "Hamlet," I knew you as a splendid play . . . and I really wish you'd stay that way. To be blunt, you're not a very good ballet. This was the clearest point made in the Washington Ballet's production of St...

Sondra Radvanovsky completed her hat trick of singing all the leads in Donizetti's Tudor Trilogy last night with a triumphant and bravura performance as Queen Elizabeth I in the Met Opera's premiere production of Roberto...

Dare we call Rep. Don Young a "lumbersexual?"The 82-year-old Alaska Republican probably isn't familiar with the term, even though he embodied the hipster label (definition: a cool, bearded type often sporting rugged vint...

Celeb: Rapper and record producer Busta Rhymes.Cause: Rhymes calls prison sentencing reform his passion and advocates against mandatory minimum sentencing laws."The punishment should fit the crime, but in America today, ...

Martha McSally, a Republican Congresswoman from Arizona, made waves this week by attacking the Air Force's bands. "We have hundreds of people playing the tuba and clarinet," she said at a hearing of the House Armed Servi...

Q: My husband and I have decided that we do not want our children to participate in sleepovers. We recently moved to a new community and are just making new …

Welcome back to Doin' Work: Flash Interviews With Contemporary Photographers. This is a place for me to celebrate the photographers who inspire me, and to present to you an easily digestible bite of their personalities a...

This is what the balcony looked like before. Pin it Long-time Apartment Therapy readers might remember a little renovation diary series about The World's Ugliest Condo -- the affectionate title for my in-laws' second hom...

When Kenyan photographer Osborne Macharia was commissioned by the Telecom provider Safaricom to shoot for their 2016 calendar "This Is My Kenya," he knew it was going to be a challenge -- but a welcomed one. The images ...

San Francisco Magazine Elise Craig Markus Spiering/Creative Commons General Fund allocations don't grow on trees.   This story is part of our April 2016 cover story “The City Report Card,” a 24-part assessment of th...

San Francisco Magazine Adam L. Brinklow Oscar Bolton Green Remember the Empress!   This story is part of our April 2016 cover story “The City Report Card,” a 24-part assessment of the true state of San Francisco. We...

Pin it Of course it's possible to create an amazing-looking kitchen if you have massive amounts of cash: what's really remarkable is doing the same thing on a limited budget. But the good news is that you don't have to s...