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My youngest daughter started college this week. We got a call from her last night, and she gave us the full rundown of her classes:

I don’t know if you pay much attention to the book sections at Barnes & Noble. For the most part, I don’t. But today I

Back in my art school days I decided to do my hair up (when I had some) like they did it back in the 1950s,

Subtlety? Art? These are not the things a summer movie is typically made of. In the dog days of August, sometimes folks just want to

I hated mirrors as a kid. Really hated them. When I was about 5, I heard an old-timey radio episode of The Shadow in which

We, the people, have always had an affection for those in the spotlight: the famous. Ever since the first scruffy human guy shuffled back to

How do teens today get their music? In this interconnected Internet age of digital downloads, ubiquitous iPods and music-playing smartphones, the conventional wisdom goes something

“The bad news is that the Olympics are over,” fellow Plugged In critic Adam Holz proclaimed yesterday. “On the up side, Shark Week is here!”

After three weeks at the top of the box office, Batman finally met his match: A chemically enhanced killer with a distaste for authority. No,

What is constant connectivity doing to our brains? That, in a nutshell, is the question Newsweek writer Tony Dokoupil explores in his July 16 cover