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From left to right, Rebecca Chan, project manager, Gaia, artistic curator, Ben Stone, Station North executive director, and artist Nanook, pose for a portrait during the celebration of the completion of the Open Walls Baltimore project on Friday.

One Direction's stateside arrival has been an indisputable success: their March appearance on the Today show drew record numbers, their first-ever headlining tour sold out to the point of needing to add matinee performances and the group's already recording a second album while sales for their 2013 summer tour are going strong.

"I am not so much the pebble dropping in the pond as I am the ripples that follow." -- Miles Levin.

Nearly $721 of items were found in her purse, authorities said. a- Darrin Thomas Howard, 40, of the 3500 block of 12th Avenue Northeast, Golden Gate Estates, was arrested Friday on a grand theft charge after deputies say he pawned gold jewelry belonging to a woman who was helping him watch his children after his wife died; reports say he received ... (more)

During his concert Thursday night at the Santa Barbara Bowl , Beck joked that "You are witnessing the shedding of the cobwebs, so to speak." Beck is back on tour for the first time in four years, and this was the official kick-off after a warm-up gig a few days before at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.

Ann Taylor is pleased to announce the opening of two new stores in Toronto, Canada in Fall 2012.

And Nicole Kidman's colleagues took things a little further when they appeared to be talking to her chest at the premiere of Hemingway & Gellhorn in Cannes tonight.

Activist investor Carl Icahn is taking a stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp. and calling for at least four of company's directors to be replaced.

PayPal Inc. says 15 retailers, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Office Depot and Jamba Juice, are adding its online payment system in their stores.

Editor's note: Kenneth V. Lanning, a consultant in crimes against children, was a special agent with the FBI for more than 30 years and was assigned to the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy for 20 of those years.

Justin Bieber was honored alongside top fashion names like Tom Ford and Gucci at the Fragrance Foundation's annual Fifi awards for the best perfumes.

For some women, bliss is a new pair of Jimmy Choo sandals or a Hermes scarf. Others find happiness in a pair of dusty boots, a comfortable saddle and the scent of rawhide.

Here we are again, staring down scary European headlines, a sagging equities market and wilting investor confidence.

Chances are, Product Red first came on your radar in 2006, when The Gap debuted its line of desi , ado and inspi t-shirts. The t-shirts were the start of a viral movement, which today is recognizable in distictive digital campaigns and partnerships with some of the world's most popular brands, including Coca-Cola, Apple and Starbucks.

The women's clothier Talbots Inc. said Friday that a deadline expired without a deal in its exclusive talks about being acquired by a private equity firm and that it will actively pursue other options.

Women's apparel retailer Talbots Inc said Sycamore Partners, with which it has been in exclusive talks for a buyout, is not prepared to execute a deal at this time.

The U.S. luxury sector, a bright spot in U.S. retailing for the past two years, is struggling to maintain momentum as Europe's sovereign debt crisis sends shockwaves across the Atlantic.

THE bride wore Carolina Herrera, the other bride wore Ralph Lauren. That was the big reveal at the wedding of Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Council speaker, and her longtime partner, Kim M. Catullo, a products liability lawyer, in a ceremony held in the meatpacking district last Saturday evening.

But there is a person named Millard "Mickey" Drexler , and if there were a J. Crew, he would not be spared Drexler's critical but talented eye.

Aeropostale : Analyst Evren Kopelman is upgrading ARO to Market Perform after the company raised 2012/2013 EPS estimates to $1.28/$1.53 from $1.22/1.48, citing improving business trends and better topline revenue growth.