A Los Angeles Bungalow That Doubles as a Sustainability Lab
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen keep bees, grow vegetables and make their own cleaning products at their 1,000-square-foot house in Silver Lake.
The cost and environmental impact of the plan, and the sacrifices it imposes on the poor, are drawing criticism.
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen keep bees, grow vegetables and make their own cleaning products at their 1,000-square-foot house in Silver Lake.
A designer’s 18th-century rental is only six-and-a-half-feet deep front to back.
The online start-ups Lonny, High Gloss, Rue and Matchbook try to fill the void left by their vanished print predecessors.
Shaquille O’Neil was one of the most dominant centers in N.B.A. history, but at times his celebrity transcended the sport.
Marc Jacobs has marched to his own baton, pivoting, when the mood took him, on a polished heel.
For many at a party for Hamptons magazine last Sunday at the new Southampton Social Club, it was a traditionally beautiful evening with a storied history.
The geometrically shaped three-story house on Isla Mujeres is made from pumice and tile and inspired by the modern, clean lines of a nearby boutique hotel.
A penthouse in a 17th-century palazzo on a canal in Venice is on the market for $1.96 million.
A row house in Philadelphia, a log house outside Nashville, and three-bedroom house in Omaha.
A designer of urban outdoor environments went shopping for both affordable and out-of-the-park patio umbrellas.
Pop-ups and openings in the Hamptons, Montauk T-shirts and a Stella McCartney sale in Manhattan.
A new exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal considers architects’ role in World War II.
The day in sports from the Yankees’ game in Oakland to the N.H.L. finals in Vancouver.
An exhibition of 100 works by nearly 50 Southern California artists in painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, collage, film and video and installation art.
A few of the documents, posters, food labels and photographs from the upcoming exhibit at the National Archives.
The day in sports from quarterfinal matches at the French Open to the N.B.A. finals in Miami.
Video and transcripts from the night Shanterrica Madden was arrested and questioned by police. She eventually confessed to killing her roommate.
In a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, seven categories of technology are cited as possible evidence that Tehran’s nuclear program aims to build an implosion nuclear device.
The contemporary art market has boomed in the last 10 years, characterized by the steep ascent of artists like Gerhard Richter. But the work of some contemporary artists has not appreciated at the same rate.
Not seasonally-adjusted Case-Shiller house prices for 20 U.S. metro-areas.
Serge F. Kovaleski interviewed family members, friends and others close to Tina Stewart and Shanterrica Madden, revealing their personalities. There are no answers, just a world’s worth of sorrow.
The winners of YouTube’s recent talent search contest spent last week in video training boot camp at Google’s headquarters in New York to elevate their production skills. Below are the contestants’ entries and pitches in their own words that helped them become one of YouTube’s rising stars.
While American companies have invested billions of dollars in this small nation’s oil infrastructure, World Bank statistics point to widespread poverty among much of the population.
Stripped bare by the swirling wind — as if ravaged by wildfire — the skeletons of oak, elm, and hickory stand sentinel over a wasteland.
Memorial Day events around New York included parades in Brooklyn and Staten Island and ceremonies at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
A tour of the trees in Central Park with Ken Chaya and Edward Sibley Barnard.
A view of the day in sports, from the courts of Paris to the crashes in Indianapolis.
A man in Dordrecht, the Netherlands built an ark to teach others about the bible.
P.T. Barnum first took to the rails with his self-proclaimed “greatest show on earth” in 1872, and trains still keep the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus on the move.
An analysis of a type of market research that uses collages to learn about consumer feelings towards a brand or product.
Correctional Colony 13 houses law enforcement officials who have committed abuses of power such as accepting bribes or beating detainees.
The tornado that carved through southwestern Missouri last Sunday leveled parts of Joplin so completely — taking landmarks, street signs, everything — that the community’s inner GPS remains out of whack.
Like so many other post-Communist enterprises, the Irbit motorcycle factory seemed to be sputtering into the sunset in the 1990s, but it found a new market for its sidecar bikes in the United States.
For some yoga practitioners, the body presents a blank movable canvas for images that inspire and inform their practice.
Egypt lifted a four-year-old blockade on the Gaza Strip’s main link to the outside world Saturday, bringing relief to the crowded territory’s 1.5 million Palestinians but deepening a rift with Israel since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.
This summer, the second section of the High Line, the elevated railway turned city park, will open to eager visitors.
While fashion has evolved from its rigid dictates, it’s as true today as it ever was: after Memorial Day, white rules.
Advocates of extracting oil from tightly packed rock say it could increase the nation’s oil output by 25 percent.
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of currently incarcerated former President Alberto K. Fujimori, is in a tight race for the Peruvian presidency.
With more that 50 beer gardens, New York City is becoming a bottomless beer stein.
Pilsen has cleaned itself up and opened several wonderful new attractions. The result is a worthwhile destination for visitors.
An array of upcoming specials tied to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War explore both the big themes of the conflict and smaller artifacts.
A look at one man’s quest to prove his painting is a Michelangelo.
In this 1.1-square-mile village in Nassau, curving tree-lined streets are punctuated with primly kept colonials, Tudors and Capes on well-tended lots. Oh, and there’s a farm, too.
Kindergarten cutoff dates in 2010 and 1975 in the United States.
In the news: A smoking ban, home births and a new obesity culprit. Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
In Amsterdam, the Jordaan neighborhood offers ambitious goods in small spaces.
In Kakheti, booming agritourism ventures offer a chance to see how private farming has revived since the end of Communism.
The 2011 Ford Edge Sport poses a question to drivers: When it comes to technology, is there such a thing as too many options?
A 1917 roadster built by Ralph Mulford, whose testimony in a patent lawsuit helped save the tire industry in Akron, has become the passion of one Ohio man.
A slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region.
Interactive panoramas of devastation in two locations in Joplin, Mo., compared to images of the same locations before the storm.
Law firms’ second-tier workers, Sony’s struggles, Chinese utilities’ government defiance, the pursuit of the I.M.F.’s top job and more.
Supporters of the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr staged a large rally in Baghdad on Thursday to demand that American forces leave.
Mr. Mladic was blamed for the worst ethnically motivated mass murder since World War II.
Images of New York City Ballet’s program set to music by Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington.
Images of the home featured in “The Tree of Life,” with commentary from the production designer Jack Fisk.
The day in sports from a home-plate collision to the French Open to the Women’s Champions League final.
Christopher Gray takes a walk through the shadow park within Central Park. Observant visitors can find a buried reservoir, an Indian cave, and an ancient spring, among other things.
Tatiana and Krista Hogan are healthy, happy 4-year-olds who share everything — maybe even their thoughts.
Claudio’s Clam Bar, eight miles from the tip of Long Island’s North Fork, is a low-brow place with high-brow views.
It’s best to go back and forth between Canada and New York to get the best of both Niagaras.
As rescue workers continue to sift through the wreckage of Joplin, Mo., local leaders have been wrestling with the question of when to start cleaning up the destroyed area.
The theater presented new ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, Benjamin Millepied and Christopher Wheeldon on Tuesday at the Met.
Aerial photographs of the area devastated by a tornado in Joplin, Mo.
The fifth chapter in this illustrated series by Leanne Shapton captures evenings with friends.
The Whitney Museum tries hard to show off a younger, hipper side.
A look at the day sports from tennis at the French Open to baseball at Yankee Stadium.
The air campaign in Libya relies heavily on 24 hour rotating air reconnaissance missions.
A fully renovated Victorian house on the Hudson sits atop a gentle slope in a hamlet that dates to the 1700s.;
A two-bedroom attic apartment in the historic Katajanokka neighborhood of Helsinki is on the market at $1.6 million.
Mr. Groves selects flatware, looking for silver pieces with an eye toward both shape and materials.
A building, in Arbúcies, Spain, houses a family butcher business on the bottom floor and living quarters on the top three floors.
A log cabin in Lousiana, a 1912 bungalow in Idaho and a contemporary house in Maine.
In Joplin, Mo., rescue workers searched for survivors and victims in buildings leveled by the United States’ deadliest tornado in more than 60 years.
The president’s two-day state visit includes some ceremony, and some serious business.
At the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, explosions have damaged four of the buildings, and fuel is in danger of melting and releasing radioactive materials.
Compare satellite images of areas of Japan before and after the disaster.
Compare the proposed street grid for Manhattan, from 1811, with the current layout.
Test your strategy against the computer in this rock-paper-scissors game illustrating basic artificial intelligence.
Examine the mixed-race family trees submitted by readers and listen to them describe their families, then submit your own.
Over their yearlong deployment, The New York Times follows the stories of the men and women of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division.
Many lawmakers broke the tradition of sitting with their own parties at the State of the Union address.
Video and diagram showing the final moments of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
In South Korea, thousands of people, including children, are being trained to help care for dementia patients.
The Times’s David W. Dunlap describes how the new World Trade Center complex is taking shape.
Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry.
Pakistani troops are being diverted from combating Islamist militants in the Swat Valley to help the nation recover from the worst floods in its history.
The closer has confounded hitters with mostly one pitch: his signature cutter.
Where the police stopped and questioned passersby in 2009.
Test your knowledge of trivia against I.B.M.'s question-answering supercomputer.
By studying an extended family in Colombia where Alzheimer’s is seen in the early 40s, scientists hope to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s patients worldwide.
Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn both can lay claim to being the pride of their boroughs. How do they compare?
An interactive tour through the Jacobs and the Broadway theaters and an expanded interactive look at the histories of each theater on Broadway.
Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the desperation in Haiti in the weeks after a powerful earthquake devastated the country on Jan. 12.
In four different neighborhoods, residents face a spectrum of circumstances, from neglected encampments to planned tent cities to gleaming new shelters.
After January’s quake in Haiti, most residents of Fort National fled their homes. Some, however, stayed behind.
A view of the destruction along a quarter-mile stretch
of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the main commercial arteries in the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The problem of human waste disposal has become impossible to overlook in Port-au-Prince, with the stench of decomposing bodies replaced by that of excrement.
Since the earthquake, chronic problems in Haiti's orphanages -- like inadequate services and overwhelming poverty -- have only intensified.
Measure your cost of switching between different tasks in the test based on a Stanford study.
Measure your ability to filter out distractions in this test based on a Stanford study.
A series about the Taliban kidnapping of The Times's David Rohde and his two Afghan colleagues.
A look at how private equity dealmakers can win while their companies, like Simmons Bedding, lose.
The staff members involved with One in 8 Million answered questions.
Michele McNally, who oversees photography, answered questions from readers.
Photographs from Libya, Somalia, Japan and Georgia.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.