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A Brief History of Popular Culture's Bad Idea Pets

A story going around this week about hundreds of Harry Potter fans abandoning the pet owls they foolishly adopted provides us with opportunity to revisit an important lesson: Stop adopting animals because they looked cute in a movie!

By Jen Doll

May 1, 2012

Some Questions to Ask Yourself Upon the Arrival of Jessica Simpson's Baby

The long-awaited moment is here: A wee totling has been birthed into this great nation!

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By Jen Doll

Apr 24, 2012

Should We Really Be Chuckling About 'Gun Fashions'?

Tuesday's New York Times offers up what seems a rather tone-deaf story on "gun fashion trends," like chinos made by Woolrich, the 182-year-old clothing company that's made "gunwear"—if not, perhaps, fashionable gunwear like today's gunwear—for more than a century.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Apr 19, 2012

How Trendy Can a Bald Man Be?

In a bit of a flip, The New York Times decided today that ~~being bald~~, shaving your head is now a hot men's trend and goes through the pros and cons of going smooth. The biggest con, of course, is that If you go bald, there are so many Style section-approved hair trends you'll miss out on.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 11, 2012

'Tis the Season of the Titanic Trend Story

There is a question tugging at the hearts and minds of all stylish humans: How to re-live an epic tragedy in the fashion to which you have grown accustomed?

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By Jen Doll

Mar 29, 2012

The Not-So-Secret Lives of New Yorkers Who See Psychics

It's not every day that you wake up to an article in the New York Post about how powerful New Yorkers are seeking out the assistance of psychics to live better lives, but today is that day.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 26, 2012

The Parents of Summer Babies Have Already Failed

Being a parent is hard. Being a parent in New York City, where if you don't get your kid into the right preschool or kindergarten you've pretty much ruined the kid's chance of getting into an Ivy League university and having a successful, productive life (or some seem to think), is even harder.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 29, 2012

Sadie Hawkins Day, Mangagement Rings, and Sexism

Happy Leap Day. Today is a day that comes around only once every four years, and traditionally, because it was so shocking to imagine a woman ever proposing to a man, today would have been the day for that sort of funny business.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 28, 2012

Relax, You Are Not Having a 'Nervous Breakdown'

Are you having a nervous breakdown? Doubtful, as "nervous breakdowns" are not a real thing.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 28, 2012

The Dirty Book That's Changing the Lives of Upper East Side Moms

There's a new fiction series making waves among Upper East Side moms, and it happens to be the "triple-X" Fifty Shades trilogy featuring a 27-year-old billionaire, Christian Grey, who seduces a college graduate into becoming his submissive sex slave.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 23, 2012

The Babies Have Discovered Wall Street

It seems New Yorkers can't get comfortable in one neighborhood without being told that a new neighborhood is the neighborhood to be in. Or not to be in, as the case may be.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 20, 2012

The Latest Trend Is Baby Trends

Are parents becoming truly insufferable, or is it simply that the media cannot resist a baby trend story?

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By Jen Doll

Feb 15, 2012

Introducing Babyccinos, the Latest Twee Brooklyn Trend

Do you live in Brooklyn? Do you drink coffee? Do you have a baby, and does it want its own coffee, too? If so, babyccinos, not to be confused with baby chinos, are for you.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 6, 2012