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Newton Centre boutique Duchess celebrates its second birthday today and tomorrow, with most summer apparel marked down 20-50 percent and new fall items marked down 10 percent. Find Lilla P (pictured), Karina Dresses, Mystree, White + Warren, and others. The store will hand out $15 gift certificates for purchases under $100 and $20 certificates for purchases of $100 or more (good toward your next visit). There will also be drawings for gifts from Duchess and a gift certificate to the nearby L'Optique Boutique (designer sunglasses and eyewear)

Summer Wheat's portrait paintings at Samson are such a sweet mess it almost doesn't matter whom they depict. They pulse with gaudy juxtapositions of color, and paint built up and dolloped. Three-dimensional ribbons of the stuff curl over the canvases. Knotted patterns like crochet, applied with a pastry pipette, veil features. The figures are all Frankenstein's monsters, grotesques electrified to life by paint. Wheat's show is called "Hi-Lo," and it purports to be about that often taboo subject, class (although parts of it are truly just about paint)

Newton Centre boutique Duchess will have summer apparel marked down 20-50 percent and new fall items marked down 10 percent tomorrow and Friday to celebrate its second birthday. Find Lilla P , Karina Dresses , Mystree , White + Warren , and others. Get a $15-gift certificate with purchases under $100 and a $20-certificate for a purchase of $100 or more (good toward your next visit). There will also be drawings for gifts from Duchess and a gift certificate to the nearby L'Optique Boutique (designer sunglasses and eyewear)

The former Kate Middleton is spending her first Valentine's Day as a married woman nearly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) away from her husband. The Duchess of Cambridge is carrying out a solo visit to the English port city of Liverpool to visit a charity devoted to helping recovering addicts. Her husband Prince William is currently deployed as a helicopter search-and-rescue pilot in the remote Falkland Islands. But just because Kate was short a prince doesn't mean she was short a valentine.

One of Spain's richest nobles is to marry at age 85, wedding her 60-year-old boyfriend despite having only grudging acceptance from her children. The Duchess of Alba released a statement Tuesday saying she'll marry Alfonso Diez in early October. It did not give a date or say where, and said it would be an intimate ceremony attended only by her six children and a few other people. The Duchess's offspring have been known to oppose her marrying Diez. It would be her third marriage.

At a risky time for theater companies, the members of the Actors' Shakespeare Project must have known they were taking an even bigger risk by staging, for the first time in their five seasons, a play by someone other than William Shakespeare. Happily, it's a gamble that pays off. "The Duchess of Malfi" is not, of course, a completely uncalculated risk for the company. Because it was written by Shakespeare's contemporary John Webster, it draws from the same deep linguistic well - and it has what may be an added attraction for today's audiences, an even deeper well of blood and...

She married a titled peer of England decades older than herself, and her sole job was to produce sons. She set the fashions and stumped for progressive causes. She was immensely popular with the common folk even as her husband busied himself with a mistress. She died before her time. Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales? Close, but not quite. The woman at the center of "The Duchess," a lavish but glassy period drama, is Diana's distant relation Georgiana Spencer, who as the Duchess of Devonshire held sway over Georgian England during the late 18th century.

NEW YORK -- In unseasonably balmy November weather, small but enthusiastic crowds greeted Prince Charles and Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, as the couple began their first joint trip to the United States by paying tribute yesterday to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It wasn't exactly the frenzy that welcomed Charles 20 years ago on a US tour that saw his late, radiant wife, Princess Diana, dancing with John Travolta at a White House dinner. But several hundred onlookers who gathered at ground zero to see the royal couple, who wed in...

Hair has struck again. Superficial, to be sure, it somehow manages to work its way into almost every campaign, and this season is no different. Even this early in the 2012 presidential race, a hair-related scandal has erupted (and Donald Trump’s not even running). In case you’re just joining the situation: Most of Newt Gingrich’s top staffers resigned this month, in part, NBC reported, because his wife, Callista, allegedly refused early-morning campaign flights because she needed time to get her platinum hair done.

This should make you feel better about that musty smell in your basement. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have the same problem. The news out of London is that Kate Middleton spent almost $1,500 on air fresheners and scented candles to cover the damp smell in the newlyweds' new, albeit temporary, two-bedroom cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace. "Kate is used to a more modern, relaxed environment," a pal told the Daily Mail. "She felt [Kensington] had an overriding musty, damp smell, and ordered a six-month supply of her favorite products to override this.

The focus in the days ahead is on Madonna the musician. She's set to perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Sunday and her new single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'," with the white-hot Nicki Minaj, hits radio airwaves this week. But the 53-year-old superstar is surely hoping that some of that spotlight will shine on her new movie, "W.E.," about the celebrated romance between divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson and Britain's King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for love in the 1930s.

The picture editor of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper says he sees up to 400 photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, cross his desk every day. Paul Silva says the younger sister of the former Kate Middleton typically has eight or nine photographers camped outside her door and estimated that they produce between "300 to 400 pictures" of her daily. Silva was answering questions at the Leveson Inquiry, a judge-led investigation into the ethics of the country's media.

One of Spain's richest nobles is to marry at age 85, wedding her 60-year-old boyfriend despite having only grudging acceptance from her children. The Duchess of Alba released a statement Tuesday saying she'll marry Alfonso Diez in early October. It did not give a date or say where, and said it would be an intimate ceremony attended only by her six children and a few other people. The Duchess's offspring have been known to oppose her marrying Diez. It would be her third marriage.

This should make you feel better about that musty smell in your basement. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have the same problem. The news out of London is that Kate Middleton spent almost $1,500 on air fresheners and scented candles to cover the damp smell in the newlyweds' new, albeit temporary, two-bedroom cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace. "Kate is used to a more modern, relaxed environment," a pal told the Daily Mail. "She felt [Kensington] had an overriding musty, damp smell, and ordered a six-month supply of her favorite products to override this.

Newton Centre boutique Duchess celebrates its second birthday today and tomorrow, with most summer apparel marked down 20-50 percent and new fall items marked down 10 percent. Find Lilla P (pictured), Karina Dresses, Mystree, White + Warren, and others. The store will hand out $15 gift certificates for purchases under $100 and $20 certificates for purchases of $100 or more (good toward your next visit). There will also be drawings for gifts from Duchess and a gift certificate to the nearby L'Optique Boutique (designer sunglasses and eyewear)

Newton Centre boutique Duchess will have summer apparel marked down 20-50 percent and new fall items marked down 10 percent tomorrow and Friday to celebrate its second birthday. Find Lilla P , Karina Dresses , Mystree , White + Warren , and others. Get a $15-gift certificate with purchases under $100 and a $20-certificate for a purchase of $100 or more (good toward your next visit). There will also be drawings for gifts from Duchess and a gift certificate to the nearby L'Optique Boutique (designer sunglasses and eyewear)

By now, you’ve probably heard about Prince William and Kate Middleton ’s dragon boat races on Prince Edward Island. What you may not have heard is that one of the guys in the Duchess of Cambridge’s boat was Boston Bruin and Stanley Cup winner Adam McQuaid . McQuaid, who is from PEI, told the local paper, The Guardian, that he was happy to get close to Kate, even though she was defeated in the boat race by her new hubby, William....

The picture editor of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper says he sees up to 400 photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, cross his desk every day. Paul Silva says the younger sister of the former Kate Middleton typically has eight or nine photographers camped outside her door and estimated that they produce between "300 to 400 pictures" of her daily. Silva was answering questions at the Leveson Inquiry, a judge-led investigation into the ethics of the country's media.

Hollywood royalty mingled with the real thing as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent a sun-splashed day on the polo fields of Santa Barbara County followed by a diamond-studded night amid movie glitterati at the midpoint of their tour of California. Prince William wowed the crowd with four goals at his charity polo match then he and the former Kate Middleton headed by helicopter to downtown Los Angeles for a black-tie film industry event that drew Nicole Kidman , Tom Hanks , Barbra Streisand , Jack Black , and Jennifer Lopez.

LOS ANGELES - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were headed to Tinseltown yesterday, though the quick trip was hardly going to be a honeymoon for the newlyweds. The royal couple are spending most of their whirlwind weekend promoting British business ties and highlighting charitable work in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. They also plan to meet with celebrities and up-and-coming British talent and will participate in a polo match in Santa Barbara. The couple arrived at Calgary International Airport earlier in the day for the three-hour flight to the City of Angels.