An Etch-A-Sketch Salute To HuffPost: Because You've Got To Draw The Line...
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." We at HuffPost Weird News ruminate each day on G.K. Chesterton's sage words. As we report on the Internet's freakiest stories, we ask:...
View ArticleHow Art Therapy Can Help Children Facing Mental And Emotional Challenges
May 7 is National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day, a day meant to raise awareness of the many children, youth, and young adults throughout the country facing emotional and mental challenges....
View ArticleTwitter Fiction Reveals The Power Of Very, Very Short Stories
"For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn." So goes Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story, which, in spite of being perfectly compact, manages to paint a complete picture of thwarted desire and elicit...
View ArticleThis Calligraphy Wizard Can Recreate Any Font With His Pen
Seb Lester calls himself a designer and illustrator, though his miraculous handmade fonts suggest some sort of unmentioned wizardry is at work. The London-based artist is a true font-savvy chameleon,...
View Article50 Photos That Defined The Past Decade
"Photography is the art of frozen time," Meshack Otieno once said, "the ability to store emotion and feelings within a frame." There is something almost magical about the camera's ability to record a...
View ArticlePhotographer Snaps Portraits Of Her Exes, Embraces The Awkwardness Of It All
To many, the thought of running into an ex at a coffee shop, a bar or just about anywhere is utterly torturous. However, for Boston-based photographer Laura Beth Reese, the idea of reconnecting with a...
View ArticleCreating A Visual Language For Queer, Brown Femininity -- On Its Own Terms
Instructions for a Home Team "The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self," Donna J. Haraway writes in Simians, Cyborgs And Women: The Reinvention Of...
View ArticleCleary Wolters, The Real Alex Vause, Shares Her Story For The First Time
As fans of "Orange Is the New Black" prepare to spend upwards of 13 hours watching the third season of the Netflix series this June, they may easily forget the reality the show is based on. Many of us...
View ArticlePaul Shaffer Ready To Disband The CBS Orchestra As 'Letterman' Wraps Up
NEW YORK (AP) — Hidden in the attention being paid to David Letterman leading to his May 20 retirement is the knowledge that it will also mean the end of a regular television role for America's...
View ArticleCheesy Geniuses Honor The Upper Crust With A Royal Baby Pizza
Question: When is a pizza more than a pizza? Answer: When it's the royal family. And they're clearly from the upper crust. Zizzi, an Italian restaurant chain in the U.K., has created a culinary homage...
View Article39 Beautiful And Emotional First Photos Of Moms With Their Babies
Those first moments a mom holds her newborn baby after giving birth are emotional, surreal, confusing and, most of all, powerful. In honor of Mother's Day, we asked the moms of the HuffPost Parents...
View ArticleTehran Becomes Giant Open-Air Art Gallery
The daily commute for many residents of Tehran, Iran, has gotten a little brighter -- a much more cultural. The city's mayor had 1,500 billboards, which were once covered with advertisements, replaced...
View Article16 Photos That Show Motherhood Is Beautiful, Anywhere You Look
Parenting practices can vary greatly between cultures, but the powerful bonds between moms and dads and their children know no geographic limits. To celebrate Mother's Day, the folks at Instagram...
View ArticleTyler, The Creator Launches Anti-Homophobia Merch, Reappropriating A Neo-Nazi...
Tyler, The Creator has been accused of homophobia for years, but recently revealed a new line of anti-homophobia merchandise that reappropriates an old neo-Nazi logo known for its slogan, "White Pride...
View ArticleWomen In Sitcoms Are Getting A Lot More Three-Dimensional. And That's A Good...
Illustration by Priscilla Frank It's a crucial moment in the primary campaign, and a New Hampshire reporter has just published a brutal article describing a recording he found of Selina Meyer and her...
View Article7 Moving, Must-Read Memoirs Coming Out This Year
‘Tis almost the season for outdoor reading, on beaches or park benches or quiet front lawns. So, we’d like to shout from the rooftops a few excellent books worth basking in. Getting lost in a novel...
View ArticleFor Our 10th Birthday, We're Raising Money For These 10 Issues
The Huffington Post has spent a decade growing, learning and redefining the media landscape. But on our 10th birthday, one founding principle that's remained is that through our coverage, we empower...
View ArticleZappa The Greyhound Is Your New Favorite Instagram Celeb
No teeth? No problem. Zappa is a mostly toothless and very fashionable 15-year-old Italian greyhound. She has an impressive social media presence (over 20,000 followers on Instagram!) and an enviable...
View ArticleThe Other Entrepreneurs: Brooklyn's 'Indie Capitalists'
They grew up in the age of Amazon, with computers and iPods manufactured worlds away. But for these New Yorkers, handicraft is far from a thing of the past. In workshops sprinkled across Brooklyn,...
View ArticleRoman Mosaics Reportedly Damaged During Botched Restoration In Turkish Museum
Art restoration: The kind of art that, if done well, doesn’t draw attention to itself. When art restoration is in the news, it’s rarely good, and this is no exception. The Hurriyet Daily News reports...
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