Oversharing is widely deplored and highly criticized, and those who commit the crime are often themselves considered affronts to good taste. Maybe they can't help it. Also, couldn't it be worse? Beware the undershare!
Are there ways to make your work-from-home routine a bit more productive, and you, yourself, ever so slightly more efficient, all the while remaining firmly planted upon your own couch?
The 212 area code is under attack! Those three little numbers may not be the perfect piece of Manhattan ownership you thought they were.
For Fridays, traditional flip-flops and hoodies and jeans are out, apparently. People are eschewing casual wardrobes and dressing like, well ... people from the 1920s, top hats and all.
In a wave of irony, it is O.K. to do things one otherwise wouldn't. Right? Because you're being ironic. Meet the newest foodie trend of ironic dining, as inspired by Pete Wells' review of Guy Fieri's restaurant, and find out how to dine ironically for yourself!
Slate's Katy Waldman has cast a cold, malevolent eye upon grapefruit this mid-winter morn and declared it "disgusting," a gift you should never give to anyone you care about. But surely there are worse gifts. Like these.
The New York Post's Sara Stewart reports that our mourning of the dinner party came too soon. It's not dead at all; it just changed locations, and its cast of roving characters.
The text message is a real grownup now, turning 20 years old on this very day. How can it be?!
What does age mean when the contraints of being old are evolving every day? It means it's getting better all the time.
Enough people are working from home in their beds (and, no, this is not a sex scandal thing) that Sue Shellenbarger has addressed it in a piece in The Wall Street Journal. "Is clacking away on a laptop while sprawling on bed sheets more comfortable and productive than hunching over a desk?" she asks. Of course it is! Right?
Today The New York Times offers some solutions to an issue of etiquette that you may have confronted this summer, or perhaps another time of year, if you're popular or have a great house in a great location. Are people always wanting to stay with you, and you don't want them to, and you don't know what to do about it?
It seems we're always going on about the hows and whys and what's of the contemporary twentysomething, as evidenced in recent reactions to The New York Times' piece on Emma Koenig's blog to the many "thoughtful" or "navel-gazing" (or both) posts on Thought Catalog.
Of all the things one might hate as related to our fairly good, not terribly challenging lives, line-standing is clearly not the worst—the worst is obviously bad pizza—but it's an offense that galls nonetheless.
Sal Strazzullo, New York City night-life lawyer, is just a regular guy from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, who wears bespoke Italian suits and knows his way around both a velvet rope and a bar exam.
We're in a brave new world of bragging, people. Everyone does it everywhere! But the brag-brag is over, and so is the humblebrag. Enter the underbrag, the brag to rule them all.
With a certain article in the New York Times Wednesday, it appears that the age-old debate about kids in bars has reared its ugly head out of a keg we thought we'd kicked back in 2008. Has anyone asked the kids what they think?
Everyone is complaining about Olympics spoilers. But are they really that bad? We discuss.
How do you gauge each of the physical variations on saying hello that you might participate in with your variety of friend groups, and do the proper thing in return?
Over the weekend The New York Times discussed a matter of contemporary lifestyle that pretty much anyone can relate to: Friendship. Specifically, how hard is it to make friends as an adult?
Working from home is no longer the carefree happy maybe-I'll-just-get-up-and-wash-my-dishes-midday proposition of yore. Your bosses are watching you.
While we love summer and simply cannot get enough of its charms, it has come to our attention that not everyone is completely thrilled with the hottest season. To help you weather it, we're taking on your most pressing questions — to beard or not to beard? Do clear bra straps count? — in our new Friday column.
The Wall Street Journal reveals what you already knew: People in relationships sometimes need time alone to do their own things away from the prying gaze of their significant other.
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