The Mystery of Girls
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we negotiate why girls are the way they are. And we’ve got proof.
Jehoshaphat, Alex, and Alex
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explore the history of Johosafat, and how to go through life when you share the same name as your lover.
Bow Ties and Dog Years
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we kick off the first installment of our new feature, The Non-Expert’s Desk, with questions about wedding fashion and canines.
Nothing’s Shocking
Once upon a time, music idols were evil enough for your parents to hate them. So what do we have left, now that our demons are as safe as pie?
Zan: Summertime Superhero
You don’t have a house in the Hamptons, you don’t have a pool; hell, you don’t even have central air conditioning. Face it: The only thing that will save you this summer is a miracle, or a superhero.
A Chat With Penny, Chatterbot
Computers are taking over the world, and recently they’ve started talking back.
Meet the Nielsens
They’re like any other demographically-correct American family, except that everyone’s watching them. Dennis Mahoney visits with the Nielsens to chat about The Company, TV statistics, and what, exactly, doesn’t make them so darn different.
The Ins and Outs of My Gated Community
Being city-dwellers ourselves, we’ve always wondered what it’s like to live in a private community, separated from the world by cameras and fences. Dennis Mahoney happens to live behind such fences, and gives us the insider’s take on modern elite living.
Happy Birthday, Embryo
For good or ill, the first genetic engineering of a human embryo is one more mental adjustment in a year of Herculean mental adjustments. And 2001 started off so boring.
A Fig for Thee, O Terror
The reason Mayor Giuliani sounded more effective than GW Bush was a simple matter of doing versus planning. You trust a man who’s talking about lifting that brick right now and don't ask about tomorrow yet.