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After decades of obscurity, Eve Babitz—the marvelous polymath of pleasure and gifted annalist of the delights and despair of Los Angeles, where she was born in 1943 and still resides—was suddenly everywhere. The Babitz revival began in early October 2015, with the reissue of her first book, Eve’s Hollywood (1974), the celebrated eight-page dedication of which is dotted with the names of various SoCal demiurges of the 1960s and early ’70s who mad...

After months of speculation and mounting anticipation, the high-stakes international design competition to reimagine Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport released five architectural concepts for the ambitious $8.5 billion project.

The five teams, whittled down from a

Hello. So I'm about to tackle a tiling job I've been putting off for a while.

I'll be needing to remove some old red oak flooring, but I do not want to cut into the sub floor. How can I determine the thickness of the oak planks I currently have without doing that?

I have no vents or registers to look at. I don't mind actually cutting into a corner or something, possibly hitting the sub floor if I need to do...

The term “circular saw” technically refers to any saw with a circular blade. However, we generally mean a handheld circular saw when we use it, but how much do you know about the saw in your hand? Here are 5 minutes of circular saw history.

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Drywall—comprised of compressed gypsum (a soft sulfite mineral)—creates wonderfully smooth walls. Yet insert a nail or screw into it and it...