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Sending All Your Little Swimmers Into One Shallow Gene Pool, Waging a War Over $4, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 09/20/12 04:32PM
Skipping Your Sister's Wedding, Buying Your Own Birthday Presents, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 09/13/12 04:05PM
Comedian Pens Heartfelt, Epic Response to Anonymous Fan Feeling Suicidal
Louis Peitzman · 09/11/12 09:02PM
What to do When a Cabbie Holds Your Phone Hostage, Hating On Gifts in Public, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 09/06/12 01:35PM
Avoiding Awkward Facebook Friendships, Confronting Greeks About Their Secrets, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 08/30/12 02:22PM
When to Crash a Kennedy Wedding, How to Date a Murderer, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 08/23/12 02:30PM
The Do's and Don'ts of Skinny Dipping: An Etiquette Guide
Caity Weaver · 08/20/12 03:03PM
As August winds down, many of us will be pressured—by our closest friends, whom we have known since childhood, by beautiful crushes, whose tanned skin glows dusky bronze in the moonlight, by drunk assholes whom we don't know that well—to kiss summer goodbye with a skinny dipping romp.
Getting With Your Lover's Friends, Ignoring Patronizing Hotties, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 08/16/12 09:00AM
Thoughtful Pimp Explains 'Rules 2 da Game of Hoez'
Caity Weaver · 08/15/12 03:40PM
Have you ever wanted to adopt a big pimping lifestyle, but been wary because you're afraid of looking like a clown who doesn't know the rules?
Homemaking in a Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape, Dodging Polite Strangers, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 08/09/12 11:45AM
The Etiquette of Kicking Out Roommates, Kissing When Sick and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 08/01/12 02:46PM
What to Do When the Nation Hates Your Fiancé and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 07/25/12 11:25AM
Boyfriend Vs. Roommate, Punching Dogs In the Street, and Other Questionable Advice
Caity Weaver · 07/18/12 10:34AM
Psychologists Say to Avoid Make-Up Sex But, Guess What, They Don’t Know Your Life
Caity Weaver · 05/06/12 06:45PM
How to Get and Keep a Mentor
Maureen O'Connor · 05/03/12 01:39PM
Priceless Marriage Advice from the Original Awkward Family
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/01/12 07:50AMThe Perfect New York Times Magazine 'Lives' Essay
Hamilton Nolan · 03/09/12 04:46PM
Have you always dreamed of writing one of those "Lives" essays that appear on the back page of the New York Times Magazine? Yes? Jesus. Our readers used to be cool. Anyhow. The point is, the magazine's 1,384,674 editors are now sharing tips about how to write an essay that doesn't make them want to roll their M.F.A. diploma into a big old cocaine-and-rat-poison blunt, due to despair. The perfect "Lives" essay is now within your grasp!
What Not to Do at Your Oscar Party
Brian Moylan · 02/25/12 12:00PM
Sunday night the television audience for the Oscars telecast will be as large and as social as for any other event except the Super Bowl. Many will have the bright idea to invite all your friends over for an Oscar Party. For those playing host, here are some common party fouls to avoid.
Times Media Reporter Brian Stelter Reveals Number-One Dating Secret
Max Read · 02/16/12 01:15PM
Those of you who caught the news (revealed, no doubt coincidentally, in two different articles published on the same day) that New York Times media wunderkind Brian Stelter and NY1 traffic reporter Jamie Shupak are dating — and have been for five months, apparently — may be wondering what we wondered this morning when we heard: What is Brian Stelter's romance secret? (Stelter, after all, is known also for wooing CNBC reporter Nicole Lapin.) We emailed to ask, and Brian tells us:
