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Miso is a funky Japanese fermented soybean paste that's probably been patiently loitering in the back of your fridge for months twiddling its thumbs, waiting for you to realize its worth. The post We So Love These 34 Mis...

So you've got this business. Maybe you love it, maybe you don't. Maybe it's just kind of the thing you do so that you can put food on the table. Or maybe it's the thing that springs you out of bed every morning because y...

Last week, the robots finally came for that which we humans hold most dear: Our ability to write the Great [insert country or region here] Novel. The Japan News reported, and various American outlets picked up, the news ...

Writers fret about many things. In fact, agonizing over something, anything, is a writer's natural state, a condition that can feed the muse but also kill inspiration. …

The executive soap opera at Politico appears to be winding up faster than previously scheduled.Jim VandeHei, the site's chief executive, will officially leave the publication he co-founded within the next two weeks, scra...

Japanese tea event at Duke gardens on April 9 Beer and cheese dinner at Washington Duke Inn in Durham on April 13 Durham Distillery hosts botany bar crawl on April 16 …

Next year, if President Trump paves over the White House garden for his helipad, we will remember its bushels of kale, its bulbous turnips, its symbolism of a happy, healthy, sustainable America that ate right and stayed...

"Act I, Scene I: Elsinore. A platform before the castle."  These are the very first words to appear on the page of William Shakespeare's great tragedy, "Hamlet." Thanks to the magic of Airbnb, they could also be the fir...

The new off-Broadway play, “Exit Strategy,” puts a very personal spin on the institutional failure of the U.S. education system, depicting the chaotic final days of an inner city high school. Still, playwright Ike Ho...

Just as the dust from Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly seemed to settle, the rapper dropped untitled unmastered., a collection of what were once called "b-sides" and are now enough to constitute a legitimate release....

Pin it Name: Helena Location: Springhill -- Belgrade, Montana After almost 5 months of moving around, I finally wanted to create a space all my own. Having a "cabin in the woods" has long been a dream of mine (does anyon...

As you take a step into your cluttered attic, feeling the stress of Spring cleaning crawling into your brain, think of Michael Malizia. When you sit down to sort out your memorabilia, placing them into two piles labeled ...

Pin it Remember when Julia Child's Provence home "La Pitchoune" hit the market last year? It was scooped up pretty quickly, but you can still stay there (and master the art of French cooking, perhaps?).

Pin it Q: In so many of the House Tours and House Calls that you show on Apartment Therapy, I've noticed that the refrigerator doors open incorrectly. They open in such a way that it's clearly inconvenient and blocks the...

There is a theory that porn/erotica drives advancement in technology and the arts. The desire to see nakedness and watch sexy-time activities was behind the vapid expansion of home video, cable TV and the internet; going...

Each year, the National Endowment for the Arts inducts a new class of "Jazz Masters," a fellowship that represents the highest honor America bestows on its jazz musicians. In 2016, for the first time in recent memory, th...

Ballet X will be celebrating 10 years of groundbreaking choreography on April 7 with The Premier Party. The highlight of the night will be one night only performances by the dancers. David Haas, whose family is considere...

Fabiana Diaz woke at 4 a.m. one day last year to plant hundreds of teal forks in the ground on the quad at the University of Michigan. The forks were representative of one-in-four women and one-in-six men who experience ...

Saoirse Ronan is Abigail Williams The Crucible is a play about a horrible moment in American history, born of another horrible moment, and therefore literally tailor-made for such times. Arthur Miller wrote his play of t...

When considering characters or personalities known as legends, it is important to remember that much of their renown is also built upon innuendo and embellishment, creative recollections and plain mistruths. There are ma...

A common misconception is that making risotto is hard …

Hillary Clinton has been racking up celebrity endorsements, but this one is unusual: President Jed Bartlet, America's beloved former commander in chief (even though he wasn't, you know, real, but rather the POTUS of "Wes...