Expensive high-rises and street art may seem like an unlikely combination, but in Chelsea, the two are experiencing a symbiotic relationship as legal, commissioned murals contribute to a rise in property values. Street art has become increasingly trendy in New York, partly due to high-profile events like Banksy’s residency a year ago; though the anonymous street artist’s work was illegal in that it was not commissioned, it garnered a lot of press.

CJR sits down with four people who found themselves by leaving behind who they were. Laura Miller didn’t get her first full-time journalism job until she was 35, but it turned out to be a major one: In 1995, she was the fifth employee hired at Salon. Miller worked at various alt-weeklies and before that, for a small local press and a mail-order company, while doing freelance criticism.

“In the year of ’39 assembled here the volunteers,” opens “’39,” an obscure Queen song, and what follows is a tale of love, loss and modernity, alternately hopeful and despairing, that strikes an unexpected chord in 2019. First released in 1975 on the album A Night at the Opera and as the B-Side to “You’re My Best Friend,” “’39” is a musical departure for the band, eschewing the their more typical stadium-rock fare and operatic piano ballads in favor of subdued folksiness.

MOBA) That terrible painting you saw on the curb the other day might have looked like trash to you, but to one Boston-area museum, it’s a piece of fine art. You won’t find any Mona Lisas at the Museum of Bad Art, where all that is weird, wacky, and awful

The state bird of New York might officially be the Eastern bluebird, but if you ask Tina Piña Trachtenburg, it should be the pigeon. For six years, the Brooklyn-based artist and animal advocate — who goes by Mother Pigeon — has lived a pigeon-centric existence. She feeds them, fosters them, and takes fashion inspiration from them, decorating coats and crowns with fake pigeon feathers.

For most of her life, Jen Kruse hadn't given Bigfoot much thought. It wasn’t until 2015 when she interviewed cryptozoologist Loren Coleman on-air at a paranormal convention that she began giving the fabled beast serious consideration. Coleman speculated that women would have more success finding Bigfoot than men, and Kruse, tickled by this notion, volunteered on the spot to join in the search.

Cemeteries might be the norm, but a slew of people are turning to alternative methods of preserving loved ones. Long gone are the days when saying farewell to a loved one meant putting them into the ground or in an urn. Now, we can wear them as jewelry, turn them into marbles, or even compress them into diamonds.

Doctors ought to be women’s greatest allies in the fight for contraceptive and reproductive rights. And yet many of them are failing one subset of women — those, like me, who know they never want to have children. Five years ago, when I was an undergraduate, I complained to my gynecologist about long, heavy, unpredictable periods that left me anemic and were poorly controlled by various birth control pills.

The dog leather trade is directly tied to the dog meat market; consumption is believed to be declining as pet ownership booms. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters When American consumers shop for leather goods, it probably doesn’t enter their minds that th

By now, most of us have heard of subscription boxes, even if we haven't tried them ourselves. We can now get monthly mailings containing any products our hearts desire, from makeup to snacks to wine. Even our pets can get their very own subscriptions. It's easy to see the appeal: You get great products each month, without the inconvenience of real-life shopping or having to purchase a full-size version of an item you've never tried before.

It's the wall that started it all: a layered amalgamation of multicolored, spray-painted hearts at Mott and Kenmare Streets in New York City. In an earlier time, a viewer might have simply stopped to marvel. But today, the impulse is different: "Let me take a selfie." With more than 5,000 followers and counting, fashion maven and former Lucky editor-in-chief Eva Chen's Instagram account PhotogenicWalls isn't just popular — it is a reflection of a young, 21st century viewer's relationship with art.

“A Little Chaos” is the title of Alan Rickman’s new film, but the story it tells is anything but chaotic — even if the movie’s creation, in some ways, was. Tightly controlled and nuanced, “A Little Chaos” — about the construction of the Garden of Versailles under King Louis XIV — was directed and co-written by Rickman, who also plays the king.