Almost hidden away on High Point Road is a store that some consider a mecca for doll collectors -- The Doll Market, a supersized doll store that many in the industry say is the biggest in the United ...

Meet Linda Laird Staszewski, married and in her 60s, who, as she put it, has "reinvented" herself with a second career after more than 25 years in industrial engineering. Blessed with skills that ...

Chris Stoeckel and Bret Fowler have always been fascinated by fashion, from playing with Barbies as youngsters and later collecting vintage dolls to obtaining degrees from the Fashion Institute of ...

You start with a character, or a situation, perhaps, and then…what? You work out the next step, get through maybe a scene, or an episode, or a first act, and larger themes and ideas emerge. And then, ...