If we started talking at a bar, and I just wasn't feeling it, but I got the impression you were, would you prefer that I ask for your ...

John Stemberger, head of the conservative evangelical Florida Family Policy Council, told this morning's New York Times, "Allowing openly gay scouts will mean the blunt injection of ...

During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between "Hispanic" and ...

PROBLEM: Kidney stones cause the sort of pain that people rate as highly as childbirth. They also cost the U.S. about $2 billion per year, caring for ...

The Flash didn't just wake up on the wrong side of bed, he woke up in the wrong universe. He has no powers, the Justice League doesn't exist ...

On May 18th, Alaska's Pavlof volcano exploded in a paroxysm of gas, ash and magma – a violent eruption which was photographed from aboard the International Space Station.

Via NASA ...

Aiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi! Bust out your breast plates and headband braids, because Xena: Warrior Princess might be up for a revival!

It's been 15 cold, long years sense we've seen ...

Movies for kids generally exist in a zone of lowered expectations. Recycled sitcom jokes and microwaved pop culture references dot a paint-by-numbers story about rehashed characters. So it's refreshing ...

Critics love the film's 'badassness,' but also point out its more emotional themes.
By Todd Gilchrist

Vin Diesel in "Fast & Furious 6"
Photo: Universal Pictures

While cameras won't be rolling during the birth, they were there to capture the moment Kim finds out the gender of her baby.
By Jocelyn Vena

Kim Kardashian
Photo ...

The subtitle of the “The Fix — How Addiction Is Taking Over Your World” — sounds like lively hyperbole until you crack the cover of this fleet-footed, frighteningly up-to-date tome on all ...

You may have first encountered Hawkeye in last year’s “Avengers” movie, although the team’s dry-witted archer and sharpshooter has been a supporting character in various comic books for ...

In 2009, as the Great Recession was still dragging on, a young man from Baltimore published his first novel, a devastating story about the human costs of industrial ruin. The ...

Nuance is rare on the bestseller list. In most cases, ambiguity is stripped away to appeal to the greatest number and lowest common denominator. So it always renews my faith ...

When asked on hardball investigative show the View whether he would return to Saturday Night Live in the fall, Jason Sudeikis tried to evade the question. Eventually he cracked under ...

An argument between a Pennsylvania couple over which American Idol finalist deserved to win the contest escalated quickly, resulting in a knife fight that left the pair bloodied and behind ...

On Thursday night, three people came one giant leap closer to making their dream of dying alongside Leonardo DiCaprio a reality, when they paid a combined $3.8 million to ...

The New York Post just released this image of America's Darkest Timeline Amanda Bynes, taken in court earlier today. TMZ reports that Bynes told a judge the (alleged) bong ...

For the last three years, WantedDesign has been a standout among the design events that take place during NYCxDesign and this year was no exception. With top-notch designers, students, manufacturers ...

The international modernist residence, Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana, was commissioned by industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Miller in 1953. Owned by ...

Brooklyn-based company VOLK introduced some new pieces this year during New York Design Week that feature hand-painted designs full of geometry, color and pattern.

Gorgeous, hand-selected wood pieces are embellished ...

This week’s Friday Five is with Joel Roos, the founder of One Nordic. Trained as a lawyer, Roos entered the design field in 2008 when he was called upon ...

Fava beans are in season, the weather is looking up, meals are moving outdoors.  These are three good reasons to try blogger and entertainer Valerie Rice’s recipe for fava ...

I share my home, and my life, with an MFA-toting husband (whose concentration was in painting and color therapy), and an active, inquisitive, art-loving 2 year-old. Between the two of ...

Of the many things that I love about my mother, one of my favorite is the fact that, no matter where she is or what time it is, she always ...

I feel incredibly lucky to work where I do, not just with the D*S team, but in the actual office building we call home. Greenpoint’s Pencil Factory is ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This ...

Sanjay And Craig debuts tomorrow, May 25, on Nickelodeon at 10:30 a.m. Eastern.

One of the best attributes of any truly great kids show is its ability to ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Fast & Furious 6 inspires us to look back on other vehicular action ...

Scottish duo Boards Of Canada has been awkwardly titillating the Internet for weeks with silly white-label noise singles, a series of confusing numbers, and general fuckery, but the group finally ...

On the walls of Jay Carney’s office: a photo of the Berlin Wall being dismantled. Snaps of his kids. His employer, President Obama, gracing the cover of his former ...

Washington is John Adams’s home for the rest of May. This week, the celebrated composer is curating a four-concert series of his music at the Library of Congress and ...

Sure, it was a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center last night, but a typical NSO concert? Not so much: Guitarist Trey Anastasio of Phish let loose with ...

Earlier this week, an employee of U Street Music Hall strolled down 14th Street NW and ducked into Som Records to buy a vinyl copy of the most hyped album ...