With wavy purple hair, a discernable nose ring and a furry black coat, 20-year old Gabby stands out even when she's not in costume. But when she undergoes her colorful transformation every Friday night, the suburban Maryland native is sure to turn heads.

Dressed as a

When their husbands win the presidency, American first ladies are thrust into the spotlight, forced to take a position with no job description and no pay. Put on a stage without a script, the country's First Ladies are required to use their newfound influence to leave behind a legacy.

And...

James Holmes had a dating profile on Match.com. Wade Michael Page started a band. Holmes was a "quiet and easygoing" neuroscience student. Page was a heavily tattooed, "frustrated neo-Nazi."

Just hours after each of the heartbreaking shootings, Holmes and Page were on their way to becoming common household names. While...

The first Afghan to win a Pulitzer Prize collected winnings at Columbia University on May 21. But although the Kabul-based photographer's image shed the international spotlight on Afghanistan's underreported suicide bombings, the Afghan government has not yet acknowledged his work.

Massoud Hossaini was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for...

A flock of three thousand tourists spill out of a cruise ship, dispersing into Belize City, following a map given to them by the industry that owns the port, the shops, and the economy. The passengers are on a mission -- a mission to find the largest diamond, a cheap...

The civil rights movement was not a movement of the black community. It was a movement of humanity, for humanity. Calling African Americans a "black community" serves an injustice to the countless individuals with unique stories. It is these generalizations that may lie at the root of America's inability to...

I watch documentaries, not movies. I read history books, not fiction. I use every free moment to accomplish one of the tasks on my never-ending checklist, and am weighed down by my obsession with productivity. An hour sleeping is an hour wasted. And like the rest of 21st century America,...

An hour before her live Q&A with the Huffington Post, Sandra Fluke met with me at a Starbuck's (even though she doesn't drink coffee) to talk about her campaign to empower women.

The contraception debate and Rush Limbaugh's personal insults are what placed Fluke in the spotlight,...

Competitors in this year's 15th annual U.S. Memory Championship brought out a large group of college students who competed to remember 117 names and faces, two decks of cards, poems and more in New York on March 24.

More than half of the nearly five dozen mental athletes...