What Would Phoebe Do?

Sometime soon, a post on meritocracy, aristocracy, and the Stuyvesant cheating scandal. Till then: A few days ago was a real festival of...

In what appears to be an effort to alienate the much-discussed but let's face it not-so-populous community of European Jews who vote f...

Back in 2005 (!), I was shocked to learn that Japanese hair-straightening refers to the process by which ethnically Japanese women straight...

-Lower the prices by so very, very, much. -Insist on a week-long orientation in public transit, during which commuters ride the NYC subw...

I now have exactly the cold I should have seen coming given my invincible approach to public transportation (deciding hand sanitizer is all...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown has an interesting new blog called " This Is 30 ," which thus far consists of celebrity photos of what 30-ye...

Long, long ago, when I was a young'un, a recent college grad and newish grad student filled with energy and dreams, I wrote somewhat di...

The New York Times, which itself  offers unpaid internships , calls out unpaid internships, and questions whether the fashion industry can c...

The Internet is  split over whether liberals/progressives should support the Chicago teachers’ strike. The pro-strike side has ...

A Thai restaurant in the Village is looking for a "management intern." Unpaid. "The intern will have the opportunity to learn...

Readers may be familiar with a tag on WWPD called "cheapness studied then deliberately ignored." This refers to, say, a truly exce...

Two Australian (?) women on the subway, of a certain age and in the TOWIE/Real Housewives mold. One is telling the other about a certain ...

View from the Village, 6th Ave.

-Pastry success: this morning's croissant did not (as far as I know) make contact with the floor . Next stage of becoming an early-morni...

Who is it who uses the expression, "your privilege is showing"? In those words, or that message phrased otherwise? YPIS, we may ...

Today, I insisted that I could totally feed and walk Bisou before leaving in the middle of the night (or so it feels like) to go on the bike...

-Class itself: fun. Sorting out the mystery that is online homework: less so. A work in progress, but to be resolved, I estimate, in the nex...

Watched some of last night’s DNC, fell asleep post-Michelle (who had just proven herself capable of being president as well as supermodel-i...

A phenomenon not unlike the  blonde brunette : defining "curly" hair as what happens when a woman with fine, straight hair  uses b...

The commute continues to happen, with the new glitch that post-Labor Day, the line at the croissant-and-coffee establishment has about as ma...

I've watched some of the RNC, and can make the following observations: -The guiding principle of the speeches appeared to be  scrappin...

After the previous navy sweater disintegrated, I gave myself grad-student permission to replace it. There's one store in town, more or l...

Pros : -My four-leg-each-way journey would make for a fantastic RNC speech.  -The train I take to get me in on time gets me in early....

American women - well, some, maybe not Ann Romney - want to be French. French women, at least the demographic equivalent of the American wom...

To the hairdressers of Central NJ, You are convenient, reasonably-priced, and do a good job. I get why you ask, but I here is my promise: ...

Via Ned Resnikoff , a fascinating, depressing, tale of journalism today. Alexandra Kimball hits all the key points, really, including why a...

-"My roots, I don’t dye. I used to dye the tips. I think they call it a balayage: it’s painted-on bleach that they put just into the en...

Recently, once again looking for cooking inspiration, I turned to the Bittman Minimalist videos. I got some ideas, but was mostly distracted...

Upon arriving at the dog run, we noticed something surreal: Bisou was already there! But how could it be? Sure enough, this fluffier and se...

Hanna Rosin's Atlantic story about how the hook-up culture benefits - and is perpetuated by - young women is kind of great. Finally, so...