The Angelina Jolie Leg Meme, Explained

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If she had only invested the $1,500 it cost for a Miracle Ear, she’d still be known as Angelina rather than Gam-alina. We now have answers for what we celebrity gossip addicts have been whispering about since Leg-gate at the 2012 Academy Awards.

The Time I Met THE POLICE

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When I was in high school I had this fab job downtown in the City of Brotherly Love working right next to the fanciest-schmanciest hotel in Philly. That means we got to see all kinds of famous (and infamous)types. Like Material Girl. NKOTB. (Shut up.) That was one cruel summer. Leaving me here on my [...]

Channeling Dolly Parton

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Take me home, country road. When life makes you feel chugged full and good times have been as sparse as a hen’s teeth, sometimes what you need to do is get grounded. Calm yourself in a characteristically scrappy country American way. You need hearth, home, a honky tonk full of opportunity, and a big ol’ [...]

August 2011 Horoscope for Low Aimers

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Oh babies, August is the most neurotic of transition months, so we need to be kind to our little stressed, excited selves. It doesn’t matter if we aren’t students or if we aren’t parents of students because the years of academic calendars just reinforced a rut that goes much further back. Our primal brains ask [...]

Stalking Kevin Bacon for Fun and Profit

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I have what sounds like a pretty fancy job to most people. Not “freelance blogger”–that calls to mind adult acne and sweatpants studded with dried lo mein noodles (both of which, incidentally, I happen to have). No, I’m talking about my day job as a newspaper (and formerly glossy magazine) editor. You’re picturing Kate Hudson [...]

July 2011 Horoscope for Low Aimers

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Summertime, and the living is easy! So this is cool–we’re starting the month off with a partial eclipse of the sun on July 1st even though we just had one in June! It’s like we’re Buy One Get One Free Extreme Couponing with our astro energies! And, also, Free at No Additional Charge, we have [...]

Either Way…Fabulous!

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I haven’t been blow drying my hair lately. My roots are growing out. Some of those roots are gray. I haven’t had my eyebrows threaded in about three weeks, either. Since I was sick last week, I am way behind on laundry. The workout clothes that have been sitting forlorn in the bottom drawer of [...]