The free-spirited look is back in a big way for spring. But there’s a limit to how much lace, suede and fringe a woman can handle—and still look modern.
Hours after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver restated his hope to push the NBA age minimum to 20 years, 19-year-old Minnesota Timberwolves guard Zach LaVine won the dunk contest at Barclays Center, albeit somewhat anticlimactically.
The Count breaks down just how different the NBA All-Star Game is from a typical regular-season one.
Ahead of Saturday’s Slam-Dunk Contest at Barclays Center, second-year Nets center Mason Plumlee received some important advice from teammate Deron Williams: “Don’t embarrass yourself.”
Matthew Centrowitz won his second Wanamaker Mile title at the Millrose Games, holding off Nick Willis by .11 seconds. Bernard Lagat, who has won a record eight Wanamaker titles, was fourth, shattering the masters indoor world record.
Tiger Woods is again in golf’s spotlight, this time for a run of agonizing, public failure. Is it his swing? His aching, aging body? His training? Or his head?
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made $35 million in 2013, according to the most recent available NFL tax documents. Plus, former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice apologizes.
Handbags, ties and other items emblazoned with blooms that need no vase can make for some clever and unexpected Valentine’s Day gifts.
The wise design mind behind the 120-year-old menswear brand Berluti is an admitted jacket hoarder, a fiend for fit and an unswerving fan of vintage timepieces.
Your easiest spring update? A classic denim jacket, recast in dressier, sexier, on-trend suede.
Adam Selman’s collection was a homage to bad girls, Kate Spade lists flare pants among her must-haves for fall.
Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten opens the doors to his world with ‘Inspirations,’ an exhibition at Antwerp’s MoMu that reimagines last year’s hit show at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
The designer behind French fashion label Heimstone, who has earned a loyal following of cool rock chicks looking for the next Isabel Marant, talks about guilty pleasures, travel and being an introvert.
The red-wine casserole Julia Child sold us on was just one take on the classic dish. This pale-gold variant offers a je ne sais quoi all its own.
Sometimes hot cocoa just won’t cut it. This dessert from Colleen Riley of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Nunu Chocolates is so rich, nuanced and all-consuming, it demands a spoon.
You’ve heard such saws as “the higher the price, the better the wine” and “Old World wines are better than New World wines.” But are they fact or oenofolly?
At Danji in Manhattan, chef Hooni Kim serves this rich and warming stir-fry of pork and silken tofu with a topping of thinly sliced scallions.
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The Agriculture Department approved the first genetically modified apple for sale in the U.S., reigniting debate over the safety of modified foods and whether the products should carry mandatory labels.
From a gorgeous, salmon-pink Champagne to Burgundy’s Les Amoureuses (the Lovers), the perfect wines to celebrate love.
Cavolo nero, or black cabbage, has a bitter twist, a peppery kick and a comfortingly rich, sweet aftertaste—making it a star ingredient in winter recipes.
For a sheen that’s truly winning, get over the prejudice against high-shine paint and give a room or hallway light-reflecting sparkle and fresh glamour.
You won’t mind getting caught with your hand in one of these—all sophisticated places to stash your dough.
In search of antiboring décor, Alexa Brazilian covets a pair of floor lamps with knotted twig-like stems.
Floral designer Lindsey Taylor channels Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still for an arrangement that defies convention.
Despite Instagram images to the contrary, Thailand’s top islands can swarm with tourists. Here’s how to have one (almost) to yourself.
The author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series and Sister Jane novels remembers riding the rails in the days when horses, dogs and all of humanity rode along.
A visit to French Guiana is the perfect chance to space out—both literally, with a Cape Canaveral-style tour of the Guiana Space Centre, and figuratively, in the country’s sleepy colonial towns.
More fun to watch than it might seem, watching people play videogames has become a huge business—from PewDiePie to Twitch to League of Legends tournaments. Here are three ways to find out what all the cheering is about.
Melt away your low-down, cold-weather blues with a heated accessory for your feet, torso or hands—the Volt Heated Slippers, Brunton Heatsync vest or Zippo Hand Warmer.
In a change of heart, the world’s most popular social network will begin allowing you to designate someone—what they call a “legacy contact”—to manage parts of your accounts after you die.
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Ahead of the Sunday sign-up deadline under the health law, people coming to the HealthCare.gov site for the first time had trouble verifying their income, officials said.
In the Lab: Researchers have carefully tailored a study to find patients to test going off antiretroviral medication.
Peretz Lavie of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology discusses the school’s partnership on a new campus in New York and the globalization of education.
Essay: Scientists are intensifying their hunt for one of the biggest prizes in physics: tiny particles called wimps that could unlock some of the universe’s oldest secrets.
An ambitious new library of Indian literature shows the cultural riches ignored by today’s Hindu nationalists, writes Pankaj Mishra.
Author Peter Carey on a recent day in his life: timely news, a bottle of wine and a mixed-up dinner party.
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People primed to remember that they worked for a bank were more likely to cheat on a coin toss. Robert M. Sapolsky on our changing social identities.
Bob Dylan’s covers of songs Sinatra sang spur Joe Queenan to hope more modern pop icons will do the American Songbook: Rodgers & Hammerstein & Metallica.
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Researchers have developed a keyboard that identifies the typing patterns of computer users—and maybe can charge their smartphones, too.
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely reframes the holiday for those who find its take on love commercial and cloying.
A new word is describing reform-minded conservatives—‘reformocon,’ or ‘reformicon’—but people are disagreeing how to spell it.
Images from the new book ‘The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings.’
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Edouard Manet’s ‘The Railway’ mixes modern Paris and homages to the past.
The mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman tells how “Sleep Walk” by Santo & Johnny sparked a lifelong obsession with guitars.
Five designers share luscious spaces of their creation, along with pro tips to make couples want to spend date night at home.
The Saturday Essay: Romantic love has never been what it’s cracked up to be. That’s why we have always needed two things: an ideal of romantic love in popular culture and a more sober, chastened picture of it in high art.
Fiat-Chrysler is trying to make waves in the small urban-van segment. The Ram ProMaster City isn’t much to look at. But its design is oddly inspiring and its engine packs a punch.
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Apple has several hundred employees working secretly toward creating an electric vehicle, with an initial design that resembles a minivan.
When the band announced it would mark its 50th anniversary with three final performances this summer, Deadheads took the old-school route, flooding the band’s ticket service with handcrafted requests rather than clicking online.
The first book of the E.L. James trilogy comes to the feature screen.
Producers of the independent musical film “The Last Five Years” scored when they signed Anna Kendrick before “Pitch Perfect” and “Into the Woods” had made her a musical star.
“Daily Show” veteran Rob Corddry, the scene stealer of 2010’s “Hot Tub Time Machine,” stars in the sequel to the time-travel comedy.
The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival will open April 15 with the world premiere of a documentary about “Saturday Night Live,” NBC’s influential comedy show that is now celebrating 40 seasons on television.
The trend toward legalized marijuana has TV adding more pot-driven shows and plotlines; the cannabis industry wants to be seen as serious business.
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Amazon’s new LA noir detective drama ‘Bosch’ gets better and better as it builds, says TV columnist Nancy deWolf Smith.
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play, ‘Between Riverside and Crazy,’ tells the story of a white cop who shoots an older black cop, echoing recent events in Ferguson, Mo., and New York.
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A Florida-based production of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ proves the suburbs can handle David Mamet’s gritty drama as well as the big city, writes Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.
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Sotheby’s shook off doubts stemming from the ouster of its CEO, earning this past week its highest total for artwork auctioned in London from its contemporary art department.
A show at London’s National Portrait Gallery, soon to come to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows John Singer Sargent’s paintings of other artists and friends like Monet and Robert Louis Stevenson.
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The Museum of Biblical Art in New York is welcoming masterful Donatello sculptures that rarely leave Italy.
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Two years after surviving a bomb attack in Iraq, the author bolted from a movie theater when an explosion occurred on-screen.
Long before René Redzepi popularized locavorism, it thrived at Miyamasou, a two-Michelin-star restaurant and ryokan just outside Kyoto in Japan.
WSJ. asks six luminaries to weigh in on a single topic. This month: Ambition.
While some expect sex robots to be commonplace in a decade, they may be leapfrogged by ‘neural virtual reality.’
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Physical therapist Michelle Rodriguez trains, tweaks and heals the bodies of the dance world’s elite.
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The courtly New York restaurateur moves to the Baccarat Hotel.
New York Fashion Week Fall 2015: Highlights from Ralph Lauren, Creatures of the Wind and BCBG.
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Tips from a Canadian expat in London, such as nothing is more bonding than silent disapproval.
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The in-car DVD player isn’t enough for families these days. Parents are rigging up their cars with extra conveniences such as homework kits, first aid supplies and trash cans.
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Love one particular color? Decorating your home in it needn’t feel one-note, as this New York apartment filled with burnished variations on golden earth tones proves.
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New York Times media columnist David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer, according to autopsy results released Saturday.
Bob Dylan’s covers of songs Sinatra sang spur Joe Queenan to hope more modern pop icons will do the American Songbook: Rodgers & Hammerstein & Metallica.
Terry Teachout looks at D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ and how postmodernism changed pop music.
A gadget that prints photos from your smartphone, an exhibition about beauty rituals at the Musée Marmottan in Paris, and a guide to Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’—the things you need to know.
The field of grocery delivery in New York City has become increasingly crowded with novel options. Metro Money’s Anne Kadet examines which service is best.
The idea that a 50/50 split of tasks is actually inequal might seem a stretch to some. But it's true that some tasks (such as child care) require more effort and emotion than others (washing dishes, for example). But we don't often think about these things, especially when divvying up tasks. It's easy to make a chart that ensures that everyone is doing the same number of chores. But less simple is quantifying the stress those tasks bring.
Everyone procrastinates. Take our poll and tell us: On what kind of tasks are you most likely to procrastinate?
I tend to describe my first novel as a force that whirled into my life like a Tasmanian Devil, demanding to be written and injecting lightness into what was otherwise a distressing year. But simply throwing thanks at the feet of “the muse” discounts a lot: the tasks left abandoned, the support of my family, the sweat, the expense, the satisfaction. And, of course, the deliberation: the strategy and choices that I made in striving for a long held dream.
Isaac Hempstead Wright spoke with Speakeasy about Bran Stark's future, dragons and zombies, and how even cast members try to tease out details from "Thrones" creator George R.R. Martin.
This Sunday, "Saturday Night Live" will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a three-hour special on NBC. A who's who of past hosts, cast members and musical guests including Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld and Kanye West are set to take part.
This week in Statshot, there's little correlation between Supreme Court justices' talkativeness and the number of opinions they write; energy drinks saw an almost 7% increase in sales in 2013; and more.
Yukari Iwatani Kane's new book about Apple since the death of Steve Jobs was excerpted in the Journal last weekend. Here, she responds to questions posed by readers.
This week in Statshot: Big cities tend to have more income inequality than the rest of the country, and “Frozen” is the first Disney princess movie to crack the top 20 in overall domestic box-office receipts.
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