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America lost a great voice this weekend: the poet Lucille Clifton died. She was 73 years old. Clifton wrote wonderful, poignant, witty poems [...]
February 15, 2010
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There was a time, when I was a teenager and in my early twenties, when I used to think about fashion the way The Guardian‘s Tanya Gold [...]
January 29, 2010
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It’s nothing most of our readers haven’t seen before, but Newsweek has a refresher course on the “biggest airbrushing [...]
January 25, 2010
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Volcanista is a Friend of SP, geologist, and LOST evangelizer. So, over the holidays I took a badly needed holiday vacation, and because I like [...]
January 21, 2010
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Those of you who hopped on our Golden Globe live-blogging adventure on Sunday (which was way, way more fun than I expected — GIVE [...]
January 19, 2010
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I hate this ad. I stood waiting for a bus the other day while another bus idled in front of me. It had this ad on the side, bigger than life. I [...]
January 17, 2010
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The beauty ideal is socially constructed and changes over time. In 1912, Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn, New York, was deemed the “most [...]
January 12, 2010
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Shapelings, this is the first year since Al and I met that we will be spending Christmas at home instead of in Vegas. Since our families are [...]
December 24, 2009
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Hey all, remember back in July when Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan mean-girled soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor for not [...]
October 19, 2009
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No, not that fat Barbie, sadly. According to WWD, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who recently designed some high fashion Barbies, had to [...]
October 13, 2009