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Lord & Taylor Prepares to Say Goodbye to Fifth Avenue
This Christmas season, the most notable decorations at the store are signs saying "everything must go."
School Blocks Chick-fil-A as Dining Option, Cites Anti-LGBTQ Values
Students at a private university in New Jersey can eat more chicken as long as it's not Chick-fil-A.
Toups Cookbook a Treatise on Cajun Food
Toups, who has two restaurants in New Orleans, laces his book with colorful stories of growing up in Cajun country — a region settled by French settlers evicted by the British from Canada.
GM Cuts Jobs in Response to Present Costs, Future Innovation
Even though unemployment is low, the economy is growing and U.S. auto sales are near historic highs, General Motors is cutting thousands of jobs in a major restructuring aimed at generating cash to spend on innovation.
Watch: After Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Airs 1st Gay Kiss, Conservatives Freak Out & Twitter Reacts
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured the first televised same-sex kiss Thursday and some conservative viewers were not happy. Nevertheless, Twitter had the perfect responses to their hateful tweets.
NSFW: Straight Porn Star Rebecca More Talks About Becoming a Gay Internet Icon
Gay men may be familiar with British porn star Rebecca More not because of her profession but because she's become an Internet sensation over the last month.
Anne Frank House Renovated to Tell Story to New Generation
The museum built around a secret annex in a canal-side house where Anne Frank hid from Nazis during World War II has been renovated.
Dictionary.com Chooses 'Misinformation' as Word of the Year
Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen Monday as Dictionary.com's word of the year on the tattered coattails of "toxic," picked earlier this month for the same honor by Oxford Dictionaries in these tumultuous times.
Pick Your Pleasure: Elevation Ski Week Expands to Third Location
Elevation Ski Weeks return with the addition of Elevation Tremblant in Quebec, along with favorite events in Utah and Mammoth.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are Increasingly Merging
The physical rush of Black Friday and the armchair browsing of Cyber Monday are increasingly blending into one big holiday shopping event as more customers buy items online and pick them up at brick-and-mortar stores.
Untuckit: More Stores, Roomy Shirts for Beefy Guys
The New York company will have 53 stores by year-end and plans to open 50 more next year, many of which will be in malls.
Dolce&Gabbana Fiasco Shows Importance, Risks of China Market
Don't mess with China and its growing cadre of powerful luxury consumers.
Mitsubishi Motors Fires Ghosn, CEO to Be Interim Chairman
The board of Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors, which is allied with Renault and Nissan, voted Monday to dismiss Carlos Ghosn as its chairman after his arrest last week, citing a lack of trust.
Lord & Taylor Prepares to Say Goodbye to Fifth Avenue
For generations, the Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue helped define Christmas in New York.
Queen of Soul's Detroit Mansion Sells for $300,000
A historic Detroit mansion owned by late singing legend Aretha Franklin has been sold.
Dolce&Gabbana Founders Make Video Apology to China
The co-founders of Dolce&Gabbana apologized Friday in a video on Chinese social media after promotional videos seen as racist and subsequent Instagram messages stoked a furor in one of the world's largest markets for luxury goods.
Lump of Coal? Taxes More Likely for Online Gifts This Season
Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they're being charged sales tax at some websites where they weren't before. The reason: The Supreme Court.
Italy Livid About Deal to Loan Leonardo Works to Louvre
So versatile were Leonardo da Vinci's talents in art and science and so boundless his visionary imagination, he is known to the world as the universal genius.
4 Holiday Shopping Trends
Cozy sweaters and soft pajamas are in for adults. Kids, meanwhile, are asking for board games featuring fake poop and pimples.
Stores Usher Black Friday with Easier Ways to Get Deals
Retailers aren't just ushering the official start of the holiday season with the usual expanded hours and fat discounts on big TVs and toys.