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On the night of the Obamas' first state dinner, White House social secretary Desiree Rogers glided past the rope line of press and photographers at 6:53 p.m., pausing to boast,...

Though menswear-inspired this and boyfriend-style that seem to have wooed the fashion world into a dreamlike state of androgyny, a few designers have looked instead to the ultra-femme for inspiration....

Lose weight using a smaller plate. Alex Bogusky, co-author of "The 9-Inch 'Diet'," recently answered questions about his small-plate theory. Do you use nine-inch plates all the time now? Or...

The holiday season brings with it an overabundance of advice on how to avoid gaining weight in the face of all those festive meals, cocktail parties and plates of cookies...

Along with the joy of holiday gatherings comes a fear of your child doing something egregious at the table: chewing with his mouth open, burping the first half of the...

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee have eaten bugs together. They've shivered through frigid winter air, fought off desperately hungry cannibals and walked side by side on the empty and dusty...

Lester Shubin, the Justice Department researcher who turned a DuPont fabric intended for tires into the first truly effective bulletproof vests, died Nov. 20 after a heart attack at his...

Party invites, check. The perfect cocktail dress, check. Shoes, bag and jewelry to go with said dress, triple check. But what about the finishing touches? The holiday party circuit provides...

Where can a singer thrust a man's face into his crotch, walk his dancers on a leash and force his keyboardist into a lip lock -- all while mewling like...

Sy Syms, the discount retailer who for 35 years told millions of television viewers that "an educated consumer is our best customer," died of heart disease Nov. 17 at his...