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Drag, also known as female impersonation and gender performance, has become popular in the theater and in motion pictures. The popularity of this art form is demonstrated in the success of the motion picture 'Paris Is Burning.'

This summer may be your last opportunity to see the Cyclorama Center, the 1962 visitors' center designed by Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander overlooking the battlefields of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. [...]

Sao Paulo lives in the clouds. All those ranks of skyscrapers march unstoppably toward the horizon, and the visitor is struck by the relative scarcity of inviting public spaces on [...]

I am compulsively attracted to ceremonies that have survived the social hierarchies they were created to prop up. The Spanish Riding School, one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, is [...]

Since it is cautiously conceded that composers, poets and visual artists often function in the capacity of philosophers, we should feel reasonably confident in regarding lovers of music, poetry and [...]

My government will introduce legislation bequeathing all my titles, dominions, realms, chattels, corgis, etc., and so on, in perpetuity, to my loyal collection of handbags . . .'' Tell me, [...]

When a young millennium's fancy turns to Empire, the fancy head for Rome. Thus I found myself one morning last October bumping along the old Appian Way on my way [...]

Passion Lives Here ... Just whom did the city fathers of Turin, Italy, think they were fooling when they adopted that tropical drumbeat of a slogan for the Winter Olympics [...]

The name Sigmund Freud does not figure on the honor rolls of the world's eminent furniture designers. Why should it? All Freud did was throw some old carpets and pillows [...]

Oh, for a lazy day. We could go lie on a hillside, stare up at the sky and watch the clouds roll by. What do they remind you of? A [...]

You know it as TripAdvisor.com, the Web site devoted to user opinions of hotels, restaurants and other variables of the mobile life. But I call it Thedivinecomedyhitstheroad.com. Initially we go [...]

Tom Cruise reminds me of Jane Russell in the most visceral way. As you are too young to remember, Russell -- decades after ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' -- did TV ads [...]

In the chronicles of Western civilization, postmodern architecture deserves to be remembered for at least one signal achievement. Thanks to this movement's revival of decorative facades and ornamental crowns, far [...]

Diamonds can be a girl's worst enemy. In 1785, Marie Antoinette became ensnared in a scandal over a diamond necklace that dragged the French monarchy closer to its violent demise [...]