Three to Tango

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Triple Play! Swinging for a 3-Way

Whenever I see Bebe, which I do for lunch every few months, I am always relieved to find that she is still wearing a headband. For a while, there were a lot of women wearing them, in some misguided ode to Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl. They all bailed around the time Blake Lively’s cleavage Read More

Did You Digg It?

If the NYTimes.com most-emailed list was curated by Aunt Mabel, Digg.com’s ‘top news in all content’ list is probably generated by her 20- (or 30-) something nephew: a Twittering, iPhone wielding, card-carrying member of Generation Wii. Here’s what this dude (we’ll call him Kevin) and the rest of Diggnation have been Diggin’ in the past Read More

Don’t You Forget About Me: The Genius of John Hughes

For a certain generation, the films of John Hughes were a perfect pop-culture mirror of what it meant to be a teenager. Or at least they seemed like reflections. If your own high school wasn’t quite so easily divided into castes, if your town didn’t have a record store that stocked British imports, if your Read More

Don’t You Forget About Me: The Genius of John Hughes

For a certain generation, the films of John Hughes were a perfect pop-culture mirror of what it meant to be a teenager. Or at least they seemed like reflections. If your own high school wasn’t quite so easily divided into castes, if your town didn’t have a record store that stocked British imports, if your Read More

Politics

The Breakfast Club II

The race for chairman of the Democratic National Committee has been compared to many things: a high-stakes poker tournament, the first primary of the 2008 elections, a glorified campaign for student body president.

But our favorite comparison comes from a friend who described the race as a latter-day version of The Breakfast Club. You Read More