Veteran New York Times columnist, reporter, and author David Carr died in the paper's newsroom Thursday night. He was 58.

If you're trying to keep your special day about you, here's some advice: Don't ask your grandma to be your bridesmaid. You think a 5-year-old with a basket of rose petals and a penchant for being photographed might steal the show? Well, you haven't seen anything yet. The New York Times just posted a video about three…

Can you imagine ever reading a story about how guys have it so good while they are young men, only to discover too late the price they'll likely pay for fucking around in college and holding off on relationships until they have had some experiences? No? Me either. So why do we keep seeing this story about women?…

Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the New York Times, told Alec Baldwin's WNYC podcast "Here's the Thing" that she expects herself to help women succeed.

As anyone prone to reading interior design blogs knows, the home environment is a direct reflection on the quality and worthiness of its occupants' eternal souls and the determinate of whether or not they deserve love. Thus, it makes sense that we not only roundly critique the living quarters of our potential GOP…

It's difficult to feel cherished when we know that our partners are still carrying emotional baggage from previous romantic entanglements, but it's especially difficult when that emotional baggage manifests itself in the form of actual pieces of crap that used to belong to his ex-girlfriend. And what if he refuses to…

Did you hear about the newest trend? It was invented in prehistoric times, and we've spent thousands of years developing technology so that we don't have to do it, but now urbanites are discovering it and so it's cool again! It's sewing!

Fear of Flying author Erica Jong argues that this generation of young people have grown bored with sex. She knows this because she hangs out with young female writers sometimes, and they're apparently gazing wistfully to the morals of the 1950's, back before Erica Jong and her ilk made pre- and extra-marital sex fun…

NYC newlyweds Christine Dennison and Tim Taylor fell in love during an Arctic journey. Their careers take them all over the world. They dive and explore and sail and discover, and now they do it together. Their lives sound amazing.

Are you generous? Rich? Both?! Boy, do I have something to show you!

O'Donnell's declaration, along with the other top ten quotes of the year, will be published in the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations.

Great news, ladies! According to God/a new ideological movement, it turns out that the best thing a woman can do is submit and let her husband do all of the hard, thinky stuff. How novel!

Since the 1940's, Americans have been told to shower daily, and we've been mostly obliging. A growing movement of people who might smell like the inside of the train during rush hour claim that this isn't necessary.

Strange NY Times story on the courthouse behavior of celebrities. Inside, these tidbits: rapper Jim Jones once put a kaffiyeh over his head and pretended to be Yiddish when someone asked if he was famous outside of a courthouse; Foxy Brown uses her post-perp walks as excuses to show off her glamorous designer duds.…

Chick flicks feel ubiquitous, but their appeal to women has been wearing off. So, how does Hollywood respond? By trying to attract a more male audience to chick flicks, of course! When talking about the upcoming Confessions of a Shopaholic one producer says: "If we do our job right, this could be another Wedding…

Are we the only people who have absolutely no idea what Cathy Horyn is talking about most of the time?

We can't help but think that if you run not one but two dating sites, it couldn't be too hard to sample the product and come up with a mate. After all, you're getting a sneak preview every day, while the rest of losers chase the pickings you evenutally post up.