A wine expert's guide to three days in Sonoma County for feasting, strolling, shopping, sunning and sipping—without spending hours behind the wheel.
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India's sexual mores and institutions are rooted in a pastoral past. To stop the constant harassment of women, change the country's puritanical culture.
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The best ways to keep the season from fading fast by the author of the new book "Time Warped."
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Lexicographer Erin McKean looks at austerians, "Fred," hypertufa and bark, all from the past week's Wall Street Journal.
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Insects are potentially a vast source of affordable, sustainable protein for the world's growing population—but will Americans really take to grasshopper?
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A look at the numbers shaping your world.
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Behavioral economist Dan Ariely also answers a reader's questions on splitting the bill.
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It's never too late to learn how to work a rope. Instructions for six elementary knots.
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Weekend Confidential: The physicist and author on stepping out of the lab to bring science to the public.
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When cookbooks are the focus, the benefits of membership are tangible (and tasty).
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Satisfying and seasonal food in about 30 minutes from Seattle-based chef Renee Erickson.
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Is it worth stifling culinary cross-pollination in the name of authenticity? Chef Edward Lee makes a case for eating across borders.
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Baker Uri Scheft reveals the sought-after recipe for his take on the beloved sweet bread.
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A new book by Kara Newman toasts the return of the punch bowl with recipes for monumental mixing.
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Fine craftsmanship with a nod to tradition is starting to alter the cheap-goods perception.
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Lace—in myriad forms—bloomed as one of the biggest trends in the recent round of bridal shows from brands such as Carolina Herrera and Marchesa. Here comes a flowery and romantic walk down the aisle.
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As outrageous nail art starts to look more crazy than cool, polishes in barely-there shades make a welcome return.
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In the spring, when most anglers' thoughts turn to freshwater fishing in streams and ponds, rivers and estuaries, the historically and romantically minded among them think of Izaak Walton's book, "The Compleat Angler."
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Comic Joy Behar comic remembers 1950s New York and the friend who put a different spin on a Sinatra song—and on life.
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From Wilco to Bob Weir to the Thievery Corporation, from Bruce Hornsby to the Thrift Store Cowboys to Willie Nelson, music headliners turn to a centuries-old craft for their posters.
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The exhibit features more than 60 richly colored and often intricately patterned 20th-century pieces.
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Hughie O'Donoghue has created two 27-foot-high stained glass windows that were installed this month in the Henry VII Chapel.
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In this column: Matthew Barney in New York, the Pictures Generation in Los Angeles (where else?) and a Time Magazine portrait artist.
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How to give your ho-hum daisies the heave-ho. Here are mail-order nurseries that more than deliver.
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Weekend Gardener: Blue flowers, chartreuse evergreens, purple leaves: horticultural innovations that stand out.
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How deep should upper cupboards be? How high should they be hung? Decorator Alexa Hampton on the strategy that works best in our bigger-is-better world.
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Jolt your decor with a portable table that travels across the room.
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A discovery about how the immune system works inside cells, not only outside, gives medicine a whole new angle on infection.
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A group of 42 people over the age of 80 have been identified by Northwestern University researchers as having excellent cognitive function and memory capability typical of those decades younger.
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The best reason to watch the UEFA Champions League final Saturday is that Germany's two best teams feature what just might be the winning formula in next year's World Cup.
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Thomas Edison's rival Nikola Tesla was a visionary and dreamer in equal measure. Philip Ball reviews W. Bernard Carlson's "Tesla."
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How a medium-size Midwestern city erected one of the most remarkable monuments on the planet. Mark Lasswell reviews Tracy Campbell's "The Gateway Arch."
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An Oslo-based thriller in which one man's savior is another man's avenger and yet another man's hired assassin. Tom Nolan reviews Jo Nesbo's "The Redeemer," A.X. Ahmad's "The Caretaker" and Charles McCarry's "The Shanghai Factor."
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Shore towns hurt by superstorm Sandy could face a difficult choice: Offer "blighted" areas to big developers or risk a slow decline. Residents worry about losing their homes.
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Author Jeffery Deaver has gathered details for his novels on his travels. His favorite file, Bathrooms, contains notes on high-tech toilets, luxurious lavatories and holes in the ground.
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Fans fret as Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall animatronic cowboy who has greeted visitors to the State Fair of Texas here for decades, gets rebuilt.
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The squared-off brute of an SUV is just the ticket for expeditions or war zones, but even the souped-up AMG variant leaves a lot to be desired on normal highways, says Dan Neil.
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Recent upgrades to a line of popular cycling computers help bikers plot—and share—a perfect course.
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Model Natalia Vodianova has never done things the usual way. She became a mother of three and a philanthropic powerhouse, all while conquering the fashion world.
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When the style icon died last year, she left behind a colossal stockpile of clothing and accessories, the true extent of which only she knew. Now her family is struggling to find a permanent home for what might very well be the world's largest, unruliest most thrillingly unexplored closet.
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As Venice's Palazzo Grassi hosts its first exhibition devoted to a single artist, François Pinault open up about the rejuvenating power of contemporary art.
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The restoration of the businessman's Argentine estancia is a touchstone for an ambitious new real estate development that he hopes will change Miami.
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Acclaimed chef and author, Gabrielle Hamilton, considers the Lowline, a proposed park that will revitalize Manhattan's underground.
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The cofounder of BET has parlayed her fortune into a consortium built on personal passions, including a stake in the NBA Wizards, luxury resorts owned by Salamander Hotels & Resorts and private jets.
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The longtime model, and consultant for Roger Vivier, gathers a few of her prized possessions, from a chic handbag to whimsical toys.
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Graduates will learn little from big successes. Wouldn't it make more sense to hear from complete losers?
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Never mind the Stones, U2 and Springsteen. Chesney has sold more concert tickets than anyone else in the past 10 years. A look inside the complex machinery of his touring operation.
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A successful Chinese restaurant chain featuring waiters who swing 10-foot-long noodles around tables tries to make the jump to the U.S.
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Berlin-based glasses label Mykita has unabashedly pushed the boundaries in eyewear, securing its status as a high fashion brand with a loyal celebrity following that includes Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Lady Gaga.
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Home to around 100 islands and almost 7,500 kilometers of coastline, Italy is the Mediterranean jewel in a diver's crown. Our guide to some of the best dive spots.
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A new round of discount leases on plug-in cars, combined with federal, state and local electric-vehicle incentives, could make a battery-electric car an economical way to get around.
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Architect Deborah Berke studies a modernist masterpiece for lessons about shaping space and filling it with details both restrained and riotous.
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No team had lost a Champions League final and returned to win it the next year since AC Milan in 1994, until Bayern Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in London on Saturday.
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Graduates will learn little from big successes. Wouldn't it make more sense to hear from complete losers?
A report last week that mental-health disorders are on the rise among American children may reflect gaps in detection of disease more than a troubling of the national psyche.
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Bartitsu, an obscure Victorian system of gentlemanly self-defense practiced by Sherlock Holmes, has a new generation of practitioners.
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The Bourellec brothers turn the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris into a delightful design playground.
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A big factor in the special sound of the hit Lumineers song 'Ho Hey': Music producer Ryan Hadlock used his beloved MC240 for the song and the band's debut album.
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Neon T-shirts, vintage Chinese silk jackets, designer blazers and jeans all have their place at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy's Shanghai office
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Whether it's baking cookies in the test kitchen or dyeing fabrics in the crafts studio, the 500 or so employees at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's West Chelsea office in Manhattan embrace a creative aesthetic.
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While celebrities are no strangers to the hallways of HBO headquarters, office style at the premium cable-channel service is decidedly less Hollywood.
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Bright colors and artistic expression aren’t limited to the office décor at Scholastic, the children’s publisher of “The Hunger Games” trilogy and the “Harry Potter” series.
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Art-school chic isn’t just for students at the School of Visual Arts, where faculty and administrators have as much fashion flair their pupils.
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At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a hodgepodge of the borough's styles converges among employees with a mix of vintage clothing and dapper eyewear.
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It's not just ladies in sensible shoes and woolen cardigans who work at the New York Public Library. Office style ranges from bookish to whimsical at the private, non-profit organization.
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Both suits and Superman T-shirts are welcome at SecondMarket, a technology-finance start-up that provides an online marketplace for alternative investments, including private-company stock in technology start-ups like the pre-IPO Facebook.
Tonya Leonard, a second-grade teacher, returned to her Cambridge classroom and comforted her students in the wake of the bombing.
Returning to the Workforce? Seek a “Reverse Mentor”
After time off from the workforce, Dawn Siff decided to reach out for younger mentors who could introduce her to the new world of digital technology.
How to Negotiate With the Tooth Fairy
A long-time correspondance with the Tooth Fairy yields lessons about negotiation and acceptance.
Four Tips For Binge-Watching 'Arrested Development'
The new season of "Arrested Development" is due out on Netflix on Sunday morning--all fifteen episodes at once. How should newbies prepare and longtime fans get back up to speed? A viewer's guide to binging.
'SNL' Funnyman Will Forte Plays It Straight in 'Nebraska'
Will Forte, who won fame as a funnyman on "Saturday Night Live," is winning positive notices for his turn as a straight man in Alexander Payne's Cannes Film Festival movie "Nebraska."
'Arrested Development' Star Jessica Walter Goes Full Steam Ahead
Emmy-winning actress Jessica Walter is ready to go full steam ahead when Netflix debuts the new season of "Arrested Development" on Sunday morning. A chat with the martini-loving Bluth family matriarch.
Economics professor Emily Oster responds to readers: In this column, an economic model for a lovers' quarrel, a quandary over a trip to Italy and a house-selling warning.
What the Oath for New U.S. Citizens Says
Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues in this week's Saturday Essay that the application process for U.S. citizenship should attempt to filter out would-be citizens who are ideologically opposed to the United States. Ms. Hirsi Ali took the oath to become a U.S. citizen on April 25, with 1,834 other men and women in Boston, just 10 days after another new citizen -- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- allegedly carried out an attack in the same city with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Harvard's Robert Steven Kaplan on What We're Really Meant to Do
After a 22-year career at Goldman Sachs, Robert Steven Kaplan left his position as vice chairman of the firm in 2005 to teach at Harvard Business School. An interview with Alexandra Wolfe.
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