Adulthood Studies: how do you buy pants?

I've decided I don't have a problem with leggings , or even leggings-as-pants (despite having once received 15 minutes of fame for ...

Insufficiently-critical shopper

Oh happy day, Princeton now has an Urban Outfitters. A sentence like this needs context: until the arrival of said Outfitters, if you wanted...

But who will review the reviewers?

A. O. Scott's review of Judd Apatow's latest, "This Is 40," tells us basically that the movie is about first-world proble...

Do we need more service-industry tell-alls?

Leonard Lopate informs us that there's a new book out, a dramatic tell-all in which it's revealed that hotel staff prefer polite cu...

The neurosis Facebook invented

Emily "Prudence" Yoffe (and bear with me even if you're not a Prudie fan, this is merely the point of departure) recently got ...

On wanting my bangs like that

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: Ye...

"The mistake happened in the middle of our meal, during the beet course."

The ultimate first-world problem makes it to (where else?) the NYT lifestyle pages.

Acculturation fail

Today began with a vaguely Greek-looking man in front of my husband at a bakery having trouble ordering, and the person behind the counter a...

Times like these

-Seems I live in one of " the 20 best small towns in America ." Hmm. -In all seriousness, it sucks that Bar Refaeli was groped by...

I have to ask

A common thread in my life thus far is living in places meant for people with far more $$$ than I've got. Living in Battery Park City...

The Kimmelman Center

It's not every day NYU grad students get sneered at in the paper of record, but Michael Kimmelman has a go at it, complaining about, of...

GAR!

Well gee thanks, Paul Rudnick and the New Yorker , for running off with my   fabulous   idea .

Remind me why people agree to be quoted by NYT lifestyle reporters.

Sometimes, tragedy strikes : Their price range included “places we thought we could talk down to $1.2 million,” said Ms. Rondeau, 37. She is...

Incentives

Now that my shopping is limited to whichever supermarkets the shuttle goes to, I go back and forth between preferring Wegman's and Whole...

On meat-eating and dog-ownership

I may have been pushed over the edge, if not into squeamishness veganism , than at least squeamishness quasi-vegetarianism, on Saturday. Aft...

More pickitarianism

Brian Moylan admits he hates cheese. Because it's Gawker, the commenters are a) uniformly anonymous, and b) expected to shun sincerity,...

Pickitarianism

These days, we as a society are more accommodating than ever about a diverse array of dietary restrictions. Get a group together, and there ...

Baking woes

Got butter at Wegman's rather than Whole Foods. Land o Lakes rather than 365. Took it out of the wrapper and was inundated with that hor...

Teacup violins

I think the NYT heard me claim that I wasn't going to read any more of its lifestyle articles beginning Jan. 1, and decided to do whate...

Polar opposites for the holidays

Maybe it's that I saw the "Human Fund" episode of "Seinfeld" in my formative years, but I've never fully underst...