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At Sea with Mary-Kate and Ashley, and 200 Other Olsen Super-Fans

When I was 11 years old, I received a biography of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as a Hannukah gift—96 pages covering their then combined 26 years of life…

Joining a Cult Might Be Bad For Your Diet

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From the Flavor Aid (not Kool-Aid) at Jonestown to Rev. Sun Myung Moon's fat-shaming sermons, cults have a history of using food as one of their many tools of control. But hey, at least some of them made salad dressing to die for…

Pepper Ann Was the Most Underrated Feminist Cartoon of the ‘90s

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Pepper Ann was the groundbreaking 12-year-old heroine of her eponymous TV show. Creator Sue Rose and writer Nahnatchka Khan explain how Pepper Ann impacted a generation of girls…

The Kids From ‘Kids’ Discuss The Controversial Film That Changed Their Lives Forever

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Kids opens with a teenage couple smooching in a manner so sloppy and uncinematic, viewers are perturbed from the start. The kiss alone is uncomfortable to watch but what follows…

Natasha Lyonne Is No Ordinary Jailbird

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Natasha Lyonne is teaching me proper texting etiquette. We’re nestled in a back booth at a diner in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood, about to eat scrambled eggs and turkey sausage…

Douglas Smith: When Jupiter Alines with Mars, Then You End Up With Alligators

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Douglas Smith wants to believe in fate. “Coincidences can be astronomical in a way, but you can also chalk it up to it just being your mind,” the actor says on a hot day in September…

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay : Crushed

I have this crush. I’m so smitten and obsessed with this person that I feel like a crazed stalker. For the past month I’ve been listening to every podcast he’s been on, reading interviews with him, looking at his photos on the Internet…

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Lena Waithe’s Chicago Is “Really Black, Really Human, and as Authentic as Possible”

The Master of None Emmy winner knows a lot is riding on her new Showtime series, The Chi—and she’s up for the challenge…

The Men Of Mary-Kate And Ashley Olsen Straight-To-Video Movies Tell-All

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Full House took its final bow — well, final until it returned as Fuller House — in 1995, but that didn’t mark the end of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s acting careers.

When eating healthy turns obsessive

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In a vegan café in New York City, Nisha Moodley pushes a glass crusted with the remnants of a berry-açai-almond milk smoothie across the table and begins listing the foods she excised from her diet six years ago…

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Inside I Love Dick’s Journey from Underground Masterpiece to Amazon

An unlikely feminist classic, which spent decades being passed from woman to woman, has become an even more unlikely TV series.

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‘We Went To The Moon In 1969’: How The ‘Even Stevens’ Musical Episode Changed The Disney Channel Forever

On January 25, 2002, the Disney Channel aired the Even Stevens episode “Influenza: The Musical.” In many ways, the network hasn’t been the same since then…