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The Little Prince was published on April 6, 1943, introducing readers to the little hero of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous work. The book tells the story of a pilot who, after crashing his plane in the S...

Eight-year-old Heidi VanSumeren lost all her reading materials last month when a fire destroyed her family’s home in Parma, Michigan. According to her mom, Beth VanSumeren, the second-grader was devastated by the loss....

Yen Hoang, a food artist, an author and a businesswoman from Nha Trang, Vietnam, has come up with a creative way by creating edible pictures that inspire people to recall beautiful memories of their childhood. With a str...

It began with a message -- anonymous, of course: "Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data?"The recipient, German newspaper reporter Bastian Obermayer , promptly responded that he was. What followed was almost unimagi...

Pin it This DIY project is totally impressive if you're a fan of the Kubus candleholder that inspired it. It's also pretty impressive even if you've never seen a Kubus. For under a day and under $20 you can have a totall...

Ettore Sottsass' Carlton room divider/bookcase/storage unit, seen in an image from the Dixon Gallery, via Gizmodo. Pin it Whether you think of this as good news or terrible news, in the world of design, the 80s are back ...

There's something perverse about watching a man in pain sing some of the most beautiful songs ever written, which is how I spent two nights in November of 2010, chasing Merle Haggard's bus down Interstate 10 out of Louis...

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...

Pin it We can't think of anyone more fun and colorful than Jonathan Adler, so it's fitting that he's bringing his signature style to kids. Mattel has named the potter/designer/author creative director of Fisher-Price.

Legendary country singer Merle Haggard wasn't shy about his thoughts on modern country music: He hated it.The majority of contemporary artists "sound like a bunch of [crap]," he said in an interview last fall. "They're t...

Maria Kochetkova and Joan Boada in Christopher Wheeldon's Rush© at San Francisco Ballet. (Photo: Erik Tomasson) Baseball season opened with a bang on Monday. The San Francisco Giants crushed the Milwaukee Brewers, hitti...

In our young century, public standards for "good singing" have been reshaped by two unrelated phenomena: "American Idol" and Auto-Tune.The former is a televised singing contest for young amateurs with big lungs and big d...

Celeb: Actor David Hyde Pierce, best known as the adorkably uptight psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the sitcom "Frasier," who's more recently appeared on Broadway and the drama, "The Good Wife." Pierce sported a trim goa...

Tomorrows Bad Seeds blend together the perfect mixture of rock-pop, punk-reggae and hip-hop to create a feel good musical melting pot. The group has amassed a grassroots following of die-hard fans performing sold out sho...

On today's foodcast episode, Food52 cofounder and New York Times veteran Amanda Hesser talks about her impressive career, the new guard of food media, and starting her own company. The post Food52’s Amanda Hesser Is th...

Trying in Vain to Find Logic in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Induction Process This year, Deep Purple, the classic English rock band that is credited with helping to lay the groundwork for heavy metal, is finally bei...

Tandem, a new restaurant taking over former Cafe Symmetry spot in Carrboro's Carr Mill Mall, will open Friday. …

Years ago I was at a big Midwestern wine judging, and, being a rookie then, I had to pay my dues by judging a few rounds in the division for …

San Francisco Magazine Lauren Murrow Courtesy of Christie's Where to be and what to buy.   April 7 Party for a good cause at the tenth annual Pink Party, a free event to benefit the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund (BCEF), ...

Pin it Name: Ineke Hutter and sons Leo and Arlo Location: Collingwood; Melbourne; Victoria, Australia Size: 139 square meters (1,496 square feet) Years lived in: 10 years; Owned For interior stylist and set decorator Ine...

The 19th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival kicks off Thursday in downtown Durham. It's a major cultural event for the Triangle and an annual gathering-of-the-tribes for the worldwide documentary filmmaking …

On Wednesday, an email went out to U.S. Department of Agriculture employees warning that a film crew would be taking over some of the streets around the agency's Southwest Washington headquarters that evening, noting tha...