If there's one thing Ikea's famous for, it's meatballs. If there's two things, it's cheap, stylish furniture. The third thing? Value engineering the hell out that furniture year in and year out, to squeeze every possible penny of profit...

I would guess that when you marry an architect's daughter, you're not going to be fazed by your father-in-law's inserting himself in your househunting and remodeling projects. In fact, you might even welcome it. Especially if you've got a...

You never know with Twitter; I just got burned by Rupert Murdoch, who turned out to be boring, and Wendi Deng, who turned out to be fake. But I've had @JennyHolzerMom open in my browser tabs since before Christmas,...

Well here's something you never see. Or at least I've never seen. It's apparently a toy-sized Braun Multimix blender, imported back in the day by Creative Playthings. Which, does this make sense? It clearly dates from the Dieter Rams...

Don't you ever change, Urbanbaby....

Metafilter has announced their top posts of 2011, and one of the nominees was filthy light thief's amazing, sad, and memorable recounting last month of the life and death of Northern Calloway, who played David on Sesame Street. Calloway had...

Look, it's awesome, I know. You know. On this we all agree. Fine. But from the moment DT reader Sara sent it along--and to her credit, it was ridiculously early--something felt off to me about the Yayoi Kusama's Polka-Dot Stickers...

My 2012 strategy for dealing with Ayelet Waldman is the same as for Caitlin Flanagan and the Kardashians: ignore them, and they'll go away. Or to CNN, which is close enough. I was forced to watch that network for a...

If you have or are having twins, you probably already know about it, but Peter Miller's National Geographic article on twins studies is pretty fascinating for anyone with DNA:"What I like to say is that Mother Nature writes some things...

I don't know why it took me this long to make the connection, but now it feels like the entire spectrum of hip culture can be mapped out by the travails of imaginary, big-headed, one-eyed, emotionally fraught misfits with...