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After a deadly fire, Providence officials enacted strict building codes that virtually dismantled the city's lively arts scene. The task has fallen to a RISD grad to rebuild it, one abandoned warehouse at a time.

Why you can no longer convince someone to buy something that's not in his best interest, and what you can do about it. A good friend recently asked me about how sales organizations balance customer-centric thinking with making their number and closing sales.

Is that deal dead or alive? Here's how to spot, kill, or just avoid these time-wasters

BAM is the only team more focused than Kentucky on the NCAA tournament. And it's best known for ..

MLS club Sporting Kansas City knows not every one of its matches will be an instant classic. That doesn't mean it can't still keep fans entertained

Is your Facebook page a real snoozer? You won't make much money that way! Even the smallest business can make money on Facebook. Here's how

A look at Baratunde Thurston, the Director of Digital at The Onion, a Harvard philosophy major turned consultant turned standup comedian and author of How to Be Black. Flux to the core.

On December 20, BioWare will release Star Wars: The Old Republic, its most ambitious project yet. Bigger than all of its previous games combined, it could be a monumental success--or a titanic failure

Recently the world of digital entertainment was rocked by a disrupter known for taking the stage wearing almost exclusively black shirts and jeans. This guy is obsessed with details about how his product should look, sound, and feel to consumers, no matter how or where they consume it. He micromanages pricing and insists on making sure every aspect of how people buy his stuff is as frictionless a process as possible.

With its splashy augmented reality-infused sets, unorthodox format, and world premieres of gamer-baiting blockbusters, this year’s VGAs are rewriting awards show code. The idea of a glitzy award show is far from the frag fests gamers are used to. But for Spike TV’s Video Game Awards , the worlds of pageantry and pixels collide to create something entirely new.

Hertz puts music at the center of its marketing strategy with a Live Nation partnership that aims to link concert-going and car rentals. Few things go together like music and road trips, so how about a Hertz rental car with those concert tickets? As of January 1, 2012, you’ll be able to book both through Ticketmaster.com as well as LiveNation.com

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on security and privacy during the age of drone warfare. The year is 2020. Two Air Force officers sit in a darkened control center at an Air Force base in Nevada, carefully watching a bank of computer screens.

Russell Simmons--rap impresario and founder of Def Jams Records, Phat Farm and author of "Do You" has a life and career outlook that's made him one of the most successful entertainment moguls in history. His family is famous, too, with reality TV shows covering both Russell's family and his brother's family's (The Reverend Run) every move

Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic

In the competitive space of philanthropy and philanthrocapitalism, how do you break through the clutter and get people engaged in an issue that isn’t the tug-on-your-heart-strings norm?