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Note: This exhibition contains lots of (painted) nudity. Be warned. With all the juicy melodrama of a telenovela and the gravitas of a Baroque painting, Laura Krifka pumps her canvases…
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life….
At 66° 33′ 39″ — north of the equator — there lies an imaginary line, beyond which it is almost impossible to live. Cristian Barnett has been traversing the boundaries…
Orange Thing. 2014. Steel, copper tongs, plastic. Photo: Genevieve Hanson. Subodh Gupta is having an identity crisis. Depending on which critic you read, the artist who famously turns kitchenware into…
For 30 days, GPS for the Soul and meQuilibrium are providing you tips on how to live a healthier, happier and stress-free life. See the previous stress tips here. –…
If you’re looking for another reason to quit, here it is: Cigarettes may be a sign of mental health problems. Contrary to the perception of cigarettes as a stress reliever,…
The question: Can I really catch a cold just from going outside with wet hair? The answer: No doubt you’ve heard this one before — probably from Mom or Grandma…
Thanks to growing awareness of and willingness to accommodate a wide variety of dietary restrictions and sensitivities, navigating a restaurant menu when you have food allergies is only getting easier….
Whereas some LFW’s there might be one or two killer shows, the big five (Christopher Kane, Roksanda, Mary Katrantzou, J.W. Anderson and Erdem) all had particularly strong collections for Autumn/Winter…
There’s been plenty of talk of latewelcome discussion in my humble opinionabout equal pay for equal work. Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette sparked an online conversation and debate following her…
More than one-third of kids in America are obese or overweight. In 2013, the National School Lunch Program, a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools,…
How bad is putting a plastic container in the microwave? When you bring your lunch to work in something like a plastic Tupperware and you don’t feel like transferring it…
Throw out your pour overs, get rid of the Chemex, and pledge allegiance to the French press because this simple brewer can make you great coffee AND foamed milk to…
We all know that some very decadent recipes can be made in the slow cooker. Between the hot chocolate and nachos, it’s easy to forget about dinner altogether and go…
From the catwalk to the sidewalk: some of Italy’s most famous clothing designers have set haute couture aside for once and dedicated their creative verve to embellishing the streets of…
In 1843 Noah Webster, said by some to be the founding father of American scholarship and education, was asked by black minister Amos Beman to share “some account of the…
Apparently, you haven’t really tasted chocolate until you’ve snorted it. At least, that’s what a Belgian chocolatier is saying. Dominique Persoone recently introduced the “chocolate shooter,” a catapult-like device that…
There are now 23 states where the largest religious group is “unaffiliated” — a testament, perhaps, to what many researchers describe as a changing religious landscape in the United States….
Four Wesleyan University students were arrested Tuesday in connection with a dozen hospitalizations among people who took a party drug known as Molly. The students were arrested on assorted drug…
By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) – New York City has reached a tentative agreement with local rabbinical leaders regarding the Jewish circumcision ritual of direct oral suction…
One of the biggest barriers both men and women face in their careers today is the internal struggle with past failures — but even the most accomplished individuals experience low…
Sonic Youth front-woman Kim Gordon’s new memoir, Girl in a Band, confronts the way the musician’s gender often played a too-prominent role in how her work was discussed. In an…
Doctors were amazed when Allan Lokos not only survived a plane crash in 2012 but also the severe burns he sustained during his escape from the aircraft. However, it was…
Nothing kills the mood quite like a cell phone at dinner. In any given restaurant you’re bound to see those shiny little devices sitting on the tables. Ringly, a different…
The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards started accepting entries last year, ushering in a months-long competition poised to unearth the best emerging and professional photographers around the globe. We’ve been…
New York Fashion Week street style was all about the bags. Following suit, it looks like the stylish crowd at London Fashion Week flaunted their cool and outrageous shoe game….
Or, in the case of the Internet, you make fun. There’s John Travolta kissing not actress Scarlett Johansson — as in the original incident from Sunday’s Academy Awards — but…
A ketchup and French fry plant exists. You can pluck the fresh dipping sauce straight from the vine, and dig up those crispy potato wonders simultaneously. – Want to read…
The answer to the question “How’d you sleep?” has, for most of human history, been “not too well.” Even before the advent of electric light, people slept two or three…
If a church can have a prayer station inside city hall, then an atheist can have a reason station there, too. That’s what a federal judge concluded today in ordering…