What Would Phoebe Do?

-Do not, I repeat, do not go to Chelsea Market on Halloween. It was like the four years I spent living in and around Park Slope condensed in...

-Movies now cost $13? -But the Battery Park City movie theater is right there . How was this my first time going? -Oh right. Movies cost...

I'm too tired to continue arguing Tea Party with Miss Self-Important (see comments here ), who's convinced me I'm wrong but I...

Today was especially productive work-wise, probably because the device I'm now typing on (Last Legs MacBook) was at home, and I was not....

Britta's comment  below has got me wondering: how have I lost my spot on my own blog as the sniffer-outer of anti-Semitism in contempora...

I'd been meaning to post on the concept of 'your privilege is showing' - what this phrase is for, who's using it, and why. B...

Charles Murray points out that today's elites marry in, perpetuating their elite elitism. "Three examples lifted from last Sunday...

If you're in a French doctoral program, you've seen the following articles, then been reminded of their existence by everyone you kn...

Torrisi Italian Specialties : I remembered this as a new sandwich place near campus where the food was Italian but made in the States. I rem...

How is this guide to dating European men a book? Both because it's already an Onion article , and because young American women looking ...

I had always - "eternity" defined as since beginning grad school - figured that the end of the eccentric prof was due above all to...

Have you ever dined at a nice restaurant and wondered, why are there not grocery shoppers with shopping carts weaving between the tables? Or...

-So much for complaining about being called " ma'am ." Today I got a "sir." Wearing a dress. This is not how the blu...

Sometimes, when I'm putting on makeup, I think how lucky I am to be of the sex for whom this behavior is socially acceptable. I absolute...

Last night, it was going to be a stirfry. Vegan, even - broccoli, bell pepper, tofu, the first two from the farmers' market. Health! Loc...

Best Pancakes That Are More Like Crepes Heat a small amount of butter - like enough for a piece of toast - in the microwave for 30 seconds...

Fashion, its enemies declare, creates waste. Because the industry declares new looks "in" every season, women discard their clothe...

Dear readers-arrived-from Sullivan , -For the record, I don't think the character of Kyle's mom is the best example of the annoyi...

Why are we meant to be horrified by what goes into a hot dog or chicken nuggets, while at the same time, snout-to-tail is a food-movement-ap...

Speaking of the trend cycle, here's one I can live with. No, I don't think cropped sweaters are attractive, but I seem to have more...

I'm taking a break from writing a grant proposal about belles Juives to write a blog post about a Double X blog post about belles Juive...

Today, I was very proud of my Fashion Personality 1 get-up: navy-with-white-details Aigle garden-store rainboots, Bensimon used brownish-gr...

There were a surprising number of apricot poodles at the Dachshund Oktoberfest . And more lovely dachshunds than these pictures convey. WWWW...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: college room-sharing is among the Worst Ideas Ever. This view owes something to person...

Rather than comment further on the thread begun here : -What is "fashion"? Luxury brands with identifiable logos? Wearing leggin...

The guide below may eventually be illustrated with supporting-evidence photographs, but so far, here goes... Where you should shop but don...

Indeed , local-food tourism is now a thing .

Generally speaking, the place of models in fashion writing is far greater than need be. I don't want to hear about the village they were...

Just... just... how ? How is a "broke" recent college grad prepared to go on $50-a-person dinner dates? Doubly bizarre if the Y...

It is generally assumed that hair-and-makeup artifice is intended to improve in specific ways - either to fix or to enhance. The implication...

Wantwantwantwantwant . This one in particular. Meanwhile, I am a sensible grad student, and will content myself with the recent purchase of...

Here's the deal with The Pants: I was at the Housing Works on Chambers, where I saw The Pants - perfect camel color, high-waisted, with ...

27 really is that age . It's a number that always sounded adult to me growing up - possibly because that's the age my mother was wh...

Do I read it and enjoy it? Sure. But a certain aspect of the site could use some tweaking. Without dipping into their archives, from what is...

-Never having had the option of Walmart, I never looked into its viability as a place to buy groceries, but if one were to open in lower Man...

Need a new system for getting photos here, but this  show poodle at a Columbus Ave. street fair was the highlight of my day. I'm conside...

-Gawker has a " Signs That You're Poor ," city edition, guide, and, um. I don't think of myself as poor, just as doing qu...

This is the new look, and it's time to get used to it. This is, by the way, a shot of the same woman (same day, presumably) as the Sar...