Bloomfield Capital has been particularly active in the apartment space in recent years, funding over $24 million in multifamily loans over the last 24 months.   Market-rate multifamily bridge lending is becoming increasingly competitive across the country, as more and more sponsors and lending platforms target the asset class.  The apartment landscape has been supported by …

The year's not even close to over, and we already have a growing list of great sci-fi reads.

Being a blogger means you have the chance to reach thousands or even millions of people from around the world. The problem is that if you want to make blogging a full-time career, there seems to be a gap of knowledge between those that are trying to make it and those that do.

We need to step up the fight against drug-resistant bacteria.

For those that don’t know, here in the United States men are basically taught not to cry. ‘Murica. Social norms dictate that it shows weakness and popular culture tells us it’s unmanly. There’s also something about it preventing cancer. Here’s the thing though: bawling your eye sockets out is actually a healthy thing to help us get over whatever stress we have in our lives or show we care deeply about something. [Ed: Not me, I glued my tear ducts closed.]

Don't sabotage your own nutrition efforts with shady supermarket products masquerading as health food. Here's how to avoid the worst offenders.

When it comes to horror, Stephen King is king. But what do you read when you need a break from the master? There are numerous horror authors who evoke King’s style, while unleashing a terror all their own. If you crave the chills of a Stephen King novel but are looking to branch out, we have you covered. Here are nine horror books for Stephen King fans that deliver high-quality scares.

This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying “very few [long] novels earn their length.” Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major literary award these days, and many genre novels have ballooned to absurd sizes.

In honor of the upcoming National Banned Books Week, Sam looks at books that have been ironically banned like "Huck Finn", "Catcher in the Rye", "1984", "To Kill A Mockingbird"... and even "Harry Potter" and "Where's Waldo?"

Unfortunately, it is not that uncommon for tragedies to unfold in a courtroom, often where tensions are high and the dangerous linger. We’ve seen it throughout history with numerous judges being shot, lawyers being murdered, and people taking the law into their own hands. However, when one inflicts the harm solely on themselves to end their own misery, it leaves those who bear witness not only haunted by the memory of what they’ve seen but forever questioning one’s despair and desperation. The following is a list of 10 people who refused to allow the legal system to play out, thus determining their own fate.

When Parade asked me to compile a list of the best 75 books to celebrate the magazine’s 75th anniversary, my first answer was, “Not a chance!” I could picture the mountains of furious letters complaining about all the great works of literature I’d left off. But when I asked the staff at Parnassus Books, the Nashville store I co-own with Karen Hayes, to take it on as a group project, they were game. What we discovered in the process is how wildly we disagree about everything, except how much we love books.

Works by Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Svetlana Alexievich, Tana French and more chosen by the book review editors of the Washington Post.

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.

Studying never looked so good.

Leading scientists pick the most significant discoveries and developments of the year.

Bill Gates shares his list of favorite fanatics from 2016, including Jimmy Carter, Nanda Nilekani, Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, Nathan Bowling and Ken Caldeira.

Google can do so much more than search.

Slavery. Racism. Urbanism. Disease. While 2016 may not have been a banner year for liberal democracy in the world at large, it should definitely go down as a woke time in book publishing. For dedicated bibliophiles, the low thrum of literary FOMO that bubbles up around May has by mid-December evolved into a full-fledged panic. Every week brings a new “best books of the year” list, each one littered with titles you haven’t even heard of, let alone read.

Do you get unhealthy levels of enjoyment from unwrapping decks of cards, punching out cardboard tiles, and evaluating the heft and finish of wooden cubes? We do, too—we're gamers, after all—and 2016 was a tremendous year for tabletop gaming. The tireless members of the Ars Cardboard crew spent a lot of time playing, replaying, and dissecting the year's new titles, and we're ready to tell you what we enjoyed most.

It wasn't all bad.

The causes of our terrible health care system are pretty obvious, but for some reason, nobody has figured out how to make them go away.

Google has a long history of introducing, then forgetting about, and finally officially killing off its products. Most recently, that included Google Spaces, a service that most of us never knew existed to begin with. Let’s take a tour of some of our favorite services Google’s killed off over the years.

The most important rule: Don’t waste your readers’ time.

My friend, Carmine Gallo, has written a book called The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty. The Apple Store is the most profitable retailer in America, generating an average of $5,600 per square foot and attracting more...

Some industries tend to have more use for social media than others.

It was quite a year, lets take a look at all the best..

Blogging isn't a case of “If you post it, they will come.” Your role as a blogger doesn't end as soon as you hit Publish. In fact, that’s only the beginning.

TIME’s No. 1 Song of 2012: No, It’s Not ‘Gangnam Style’

Herod. Hitler. Hussein. History is full of notorious baddies — and those are just the H’s we can think of off the top of our heads.

Mattel's highly sought-after American Girl dolls "celebrate girls and all that they can be," according to the company's website, and each comes complete with a personal story line. There's Julie...

2012 shattered weather records around the world. Take a look through our gallery featuring breathtaking albeit terrifying photos of the year's most extreme.

Every so often a person gets fired for reasons that would make even the most no-nonsense boss scratch his head.

Your childhood was a lie. More precisely, it was a series of lies - here are ten surprising facts that'll ruin your childhood memories.

There are some startlingly human traits that turn up in the creatures you'd least expect.