A man coated head-to-toe in wet blue paint was filmed scrawling a victory message across a Los Angeles sidewalk as the city descended into chaos after the Dodgers' World Series win.

Why do we paint the ceilings of our front porches blue? Dear reader, Colors with shorter wavelengths, including green and blue, usually have a calming effect, whereas colors with longer ...

The color is called "haint" blue, and the story on why we paint with it starts with the Gullah people in 19th century South Carolina.

Allison Prang formerly covered breaking news for The Wall Street Journal in New York. Before joining the Journal, she was a reporter for American Banker, where she wrote about community banks. She ...