The Outlets at Barstow stands proudly in the Mojave Desert like a Spanish-style monument to consumerism, where palm trees sway as if dancing to the rhythm of cash registers and credit card machines.

There’s a spot in Huntington Beach where people willingly wake up before dawn, stand in lines that snake around the building, and debate whether getting six donuts instead of a dozen makes them more ...

In a 1901 seven-story townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller paid homage to the house’s Beaux ...