Hampton Roads

Downtown Escondido is going to look and feel very different in coming years as hundreds of apartments and condominiums come online along Grand Avenue and nearby streets. Three projects recently won the Escondido Planning Commission’s approval and will go before the City Council in the next days. It’s all part of a plan to bring…

Maryland’s oldest wine event returns to the Carroll County Farm Museum with more than 200 wine choices, music and food — not to mention a return to its traditional September calendar position and two-day length — although a familiar face will be missing. After being pushed by inclement weather into mid-October for a one-day event,…

Washington AFP – Jason Greenblatt, a key architect of President Donald Trump s troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, announced his resignation Thursday. His departure places another question mark over the much-delayed initiative, which the White House has touted as the opportunity of the century, but has yet to see the light of day and has been…

President Trump speaks during a Keep America Great campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., last month. Nicholas Kamm AFP President Trump’s latest tariffs on Chinese imports threaten to jeopardize the expansion of the U.S. economy — and as a result, the president’s own political fortunes are at risk. That’s because the latest slate of tariffs that took…

The award-winning actress, director, and producer Lena Dunham is officially gracing the cover of Domino s Fall Issue where we get an inside look at her newly designed West Village apartment in New York City. Lena s taste is eclectic—this we know—and we were able to speak with the mastermind interior designer behind the project,…

New York officials are demanding that banks and other companies with connections to the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma hand over financial records as the state tries to trace where money from opioid sales ended up. The state attorney general’s office this week began issuing subpoenas this week. New York is among states…

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson on Friday said she is “pro medicine” and “pro science,” after she had defended her past comments about antidepressants and said there’s a difference between “normal” human despair and going through grief. “So let’s state it again. I’m pro medicine. I’m pro science. I’ve never told anyone not to take…

Similarly, while science generates much of our prosperity, scientists and researchers themselves do not sufficiently obsess over how it should be organized. In a recent paper, Pierre Azoulay and co-authors concluded that Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s long-term grants to high-potential scientists made those scientists percent more likely to produce breakthrough work. If this finding is…

The Costume Designers Guild Local  is gearing up to fight for pay equity in its contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, establishing a pay-equity committee to raise awareness of the scale disparity between the mostly female CDG membership and the mostly male membership of the Art Directors Guild Local ….

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design UCLA AUD and the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD are proud to announce a pioneering collaboration that will enable twenty th grade LAUSD students from design-focused STEM high schools to attend UCLA AUD s Teen ArchStudio Summer Institute on full scholarships. The residential program is an intensive, full-time summer…