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Trainer Terry thought he'd be clever this week - sending me off to train while he got some work done on a bike park fundraiser....

Praise be to the internet, for it has allowed us to meet our insatiable appetites for e-card -style 'truisms'....

Few know what gluten is, only that it will make you fat, bloated, and that eating it is akin to satanism....

After visiting the National Gallery of Art with his parents when he was 5, Mark Macaluso picked up the book about the exhibit they had seen and asked his dad to tell him about the paintings. They were all by Vincent van Gogh (pronounced van-GO), a famous artist born in Holland in 1853. Van Gogh’s work is not too kid-friendly, so Mark’s dad, Ted, knew he had to come up with a good story to capture...

Using the four paintings shown here, write a short story linking at least three of them. We’ll publish some of the entries in a future edition of KidsPost. To enter, you must be between ages 7 and 13. Your story cannot be longer than 150 words. Have an adult (a parent, guardian or teacher) fill out our online form and upload your entry or mail it to us at KidsPost, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St....

Why on earth would a gorgeous actor such as Sharon Stone pay $1000 to have sex with a stranger? Many male reviewers clearly can't get their heads around the central premise at the heart of John Turturro's delightful movie Fading Gigolo....

A Finnish company has launched a line of kick-ass swimwear called Monokini 2.0, designed specifically for women who've undergone mastectomies....

At this time of the year there are some wonderfully tasty vegetables that will awaken your taste buds from their winter slumber...

Chronicling the upscale burger, a case study in trendiness...

Former chief City regulator heads campaign for archbishop of Canterbury to prevent vulnerable people falling into debt Hector Sants, the former chief City regulator, has introduced a national network of churches, communities and credit unions that aims to take on payday lenders. Sants, who headed the Financial Services Authority until 2012, is leading a task force set up by the Church of England as...

If you spend your workday at a desk, you know that familiar and dreaded feeling: the midafternoon slump. E-mails take a bit longer to compose, documents take longer to read. It’s expected, given that you spend most of your time in a chair. To combat your mental fatigue, you reach for artificial stimulation in the form of caffeine, sugar or energy drinks. But all you need to sharpen your mental acuity...

Health Canada decided last month to permit the sweetener in gum, pop, frozen desserts, and other products...

The Globe's Maggie Wrobel sits down with Eric Chong, the first Canadian MasterChef winner to discuss how his life has changed since winning the reality contest...

The Looftlighter eliminates the need for lighter fluid, chimney starters and matches...

The tang you expect with this goat cheese is balanced with a luxurious richness but it is the texture that you won’t forget; smooth from first bite to last...

Kim Kardashian has unveiled her much-anticipated wedding dress....

One plate of lobster pasta (his winning dish in the finale) may have changed his life, but the road to that plate was far from effortless....

Donald Trump came to the National Press Club on Tuesday to talk about branding, and instead talked mostly about…himself. The swirly-haired mogul spoke to a sell-out crowd, and amidst complaining about the country being ruined (“what positive thing has happened to this country in the last 10 years?”) delivered exactly the kind of self-aggrandizement for which he’s famous. We listened so you didn’t...

We couldn’t back out of our Barbados holiday when back pain hit. Soon, I found myself on my knees at airport security...

FORT COLLINS, COLO. — Rep. Jared Polis will gladly visit a marijuana dispensary in his home state of Colorado. He’ll stand in a fluorescent-lit room with hundreds of skunky plants, discuss the different types of high someone gets from Willie’s Wonder versus Super Lemon Haze (one’s a “creative upper,” the other “uplifting and euphoric”) and ruminate on the local ban on edibles. Just don’t try to take...