Like Sugar to My Heart

Out of all the celebrity couples out there, I spend the most time contemplating Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams’ relationship. Not that I spend that much time contemplating any celebrity relationships, really, besides theirs. There is something so endearing and yet baffling about that pairing to me, I just can’t leave it alone.
Today, in the [...]

That Party Last Night Was Awfully Crazy; I Wish We Taped It.

Photo by Stephanie Caine.
When I was in college, my friends and I used to occasionally remark that we would make a great reality TV show. We had the boy drama of “The Hills,” the petty friendship squabbles of “Sorority Life,” the airheaded comments of “Rich Girls,” and drank more liquor than several “Real World” casts [...]

Happy Birthday, Barbie

(Photo of 1959 Barbie by luisvilla.)
In case you missed it, Barbie turned fifty yesterday. On March 9, 1959, the first Barbara Millicent Roberts doll was unveiled, clad in a black & white striped swimsuit, ponytail and cat’s eye sunglasses. According to her backstory, she was an aspiring fashion model from Willows, Wisconsin, who moved to [...]

Then & Now: Teen Idols My Twelve-Year-Old Self Wanted to Marry

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Then: If you’re a dude born in the early-to-mid 1980s, you probably know Jonathan Taylor Thomas as the middle son on Home Improvement–you know, the one who started out the same height as his on-screen older and younger brothers but ended up being dwarfed by them by the last season. Or maybe you [...]

In Defense of Charlotte York, or Carrie Bradshaw Is a Shrew in Stilettos

A few years ago, Laura’s living room, after watching the final episode of “Sex and the City,” a scene occurred that has occurred in living rooms, dorm rooms and sorority houses across the country. After sighing over Carrie’s clothes and debating whether she should have ended up with Big or not, we all divulged which [...]