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Oscar Wilde

Literary Hotels: Where famous authors have partied, waited arrest, and -- yes -- even written novels (PHOTOS)

Oyster | Posted 05.15.2013 | Travel
Oyster

Whether they're on business or leisure, with the family or solo, almost all travelers consider a book (or a Kindle, whatever) a must-have while on a t...

Santa Fe Opera to Present New Opera About Oscar Wilde

Rodney Punt | Posted 04.29.2013 | Arts
Rodney Punt

As Americans eagerly await decisions within weeks from the Supreme Court on the right of gays and lesbians to marry, the Santa Fe Opera brings Wilde's relevant and tragic story to the stage in Oscar, a new opera.

Hotels Where The Stars Live

trivago | Posted 04.19.2013 | Travel
trivago

A stay in any of these historical hotels is a fantasy in itself, but living in one -- surely a luxury reserved for the VIPs of the world. The hotel se...

Out of the Ashes: The Other Spector

Cilla McCain | Posted 04.05.2013 | Books
Cilla McCain

To musicians like Bob Dylan or John Lennon, legendary music producer Phil Spector was the go-to genius who could help make their recordings phenomenal. To the public-at-large he is a deranged individual who should have never been allowed out of his castle. But to Nicole Audrey Spector, he is simply Dad.

Oscar Wilde's Advice For Writers

The Huffington Post | Hunter Stuart | Posted 03.22.2013 | Books

A 13-page letter, written by Oscar Wilde and discovered recently in the back of an old wardrobe in England, contains some interesting advice for write...

First Nighter: In London With Oscar Wilde, Harold Pinter, Charles Dickens and Former Movie Star William Haines

David Finkle | Posted 04.29.2013 | Arts
David Finkle

Rupert Everett has just won an award for playing Oscar Wilde in David Hare's melancholy play, The Judas Kiss, at the Duke of York's, and it's not difficult to reckon why.

10 Ways To Be A Literary Rogue (PHOTOS)

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 04.06.2013 | Books
Andrew Shaffer

Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.

6 Literary Mashups We'd Like To See

Nicole Audrey Spector | Posted 03.13.2013 | Books
Nicole Audrey Spector

This month marks the debut of Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray, a novel I co-authored with an oblivious (dead) Oscar Wilde using his work, The Picture of Dorian Gray and a whole lotta smutty thinking inspired by E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey.

When Oscar Wilde Came To America

Roy Morris Jr. | Posted 03.09.2013 | Books
Roy Morris Jr.

Eight decades before the Beatles invaded America in the winter of 1964, another long-haired, eccentrically dressed young Celt mounted his own one-man British Invasion. His name was Oscar Wilde.

Meanwhile, Back at the Cult of the Clitoris

George Heymont | Posted 12.03.2012 | Arts
George Heymont

Few people would deny Eve Ensler credit for the impact she has had on women's lives around the world. It's easy to understand why Newsweek named Ensler as one of its "150 Women Who Changed Our World."

Sex, Drugs and Raising Kids

Sam Sommers | Posted 11.21.2012 | Parents
Sam Sommers

Does a taste of champagne at a family wedding consign your son to a life of AA meetings? Will the mere mention of sex at home ensure your daughter of a future reality show appearance as a teen mom?

Do Not Be Yourself

Misha Lyuve | Posted 10.27.2012 | Arts
Misha Lyuve

Don't be yourself. When Oscar Wilde said that everyone else was taken, he was kidding. And if you think that everyone else is taken, you just have poor imagination.

Why Some Divorcing Parents Need A Time Out

Donna Jean Freberg | Posted 08.29.2012 | Divorce
Donna Jean Freberg

Some parents need a serious timeout. No negotiation, no bargaining, no giving in. Off you go to be by yourselves and think about what you've done.

Aurora's Salomania: A Gripping Look at Long-Forgotten Case of War Hysteria

Leo Stutzin | Posted 06.28.2012 | San Francisco
Leo Stutzin

Mark Jackson's Salomania,is debuting with its world premiere at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. Jackson carries the tale from the trenches of France to Old Bailey to taverns, bedrooms and other venues with remarkable fluidity and force.

The Lines of My Life

Alice Carey | Posted 08.11.2012 | Style
Alice Carey

Elizabeth Taylor once said that every wrinkle tells a story. Fine. When I was young Taylor's words of wisdom seemed great, but not now. Not to my generation who truly believed "all you need is love," not face cream.

Gay Pride Means Embracing Our Differentness -- From Other Gay People, Too

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 08.07.2012 | Gay Voices
John-Manuel Andriote

Adopting the herd mentality of the highly materialistic, celebrity-obsessed, we're-just-like-everyone-else "homosexual lifestyle" being pushed at us in today's gay media isn't proud or liberating.

S#*! My Mom Says

Claire Fordham | Posted 07.08.2012 | Women
Claire Fordham

If Oscar Wilde was right and all women become like their mothers, you can forgive me for feeling a little anxious after my parents' last trip to Los Angeles, where my sister and I live.

This Weekend's Kindiefest Plus Conversations With Curtis Stigers and Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Paul O'Neill

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.25.2012 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

Family music has changed much in recent years, with groups representing every possible musical genre (folk, rock, bluegrass, jazz, Latin, Americana, hip-hop, etc) only under the sub-genre of Kindie Rock.

Why Mike Daisey's Fabrications Don't Bother Me

Justin Snider | Posted 05.19.2012 | Arts
Justin Snider

Mike Daisey is a man damned -- or so the blogosphere, journos and pundits the world over would have us believe. He conflated fact and fiction, and he ...

Studying At Oxford Is A Great Excuse To Visit Oxford

Pam Grout | Posted 03.27.2012 | Travel
Pam Grout

Oxford is a medieval dreamland, a time warp of sorts, where everything from winding cobblestone lanes to impeccably manicured gardens is ancient and historical.

A Wilde Perspective on Money

Vaishali | Posted 03.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Vaishali

Oscar Wilde's wisdom, insight and penchant for truth are as accurate and sobering now as they were over 10 decades ago.

Priceless: The Value of Nothing

Paul Schwennesen | Posted 03.18.2012 | Arts
Paul Schwennesen

The beauty of price, in contrast, is that it represents a consensus, a vote as it were, of the collective judgment of something's relative value. A Rembrandt's worth is not "incalculable" but is actually $33 million at Christie's.

WATCH: Oscar Wilde's Tomb To Lose Its Love?

Posted 12.01.2011 | Travel

Female fans of Oscar Wilde are going to have to find a new way to pay their respects for the dead. The cult practice of leaving a red lipstick kiss on...

Artists' Famous Last Words

Posted 12.31.2011 | Arts

While great art lives forever, great artists don't. And aside all of the panic, pain and stress death brings, there is also the pressure to come out w...

Oscar Wilde's 'New' Play Questioned

www.guardian.co.uk | Posted 11.15.2011 | Arts

The grandson of Oscar Wilde is accusing an Olivier award-winning theatre company of "dishonesty" over its claims that it is staging "the world premier...