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*Our Krum*
We've loved David Krumholtz for years, not just for his stellar work in films like _Ten Things I Hate About You_, but also because with his nose and name, he's living proof that you don't need to fa...
Camp Heebaquonk
It's been years since you drank bug juice, played capture the flag or went on a panty raid, but that doesn't mean you can't dress the part.
Life Sciences
New fiction by Amanda McCormick explores the fraught relationship between Jane, her daughter Aggie and the theory of evolution.
The Double Life Of Bob Saget
Bob Saget was once TV's perfect father. Now he's a cult-classic auteur and the nastiest stand-up comedian on stage today. Jeff Rubin investigates.
Are You There Judy?
Amy Krouse Rosenthal dives into the brain of tween literary icon Judy Blume, whose books redefined puberty for a generation of adoring girls.
In Sheik’s Clothing
Arab-Americans are the persecuted minority group of the moment, but are they also becoming the coolest?
Child’s Play
To enter the lair of Noah Lyon is to walk into a world where Day-Glo paint holds court, and an endless stream of buttons, stickers and photocopies flow freely. You are immediately engulfed in Lyon's bedroom-tur...
You Can’t Do That On Television
With old-school standbys like _The Real World_ and _Road Rules_ and next generation iterations like _The Hills_ and _Engaged & Underaged_, reality television has always been MTV's bread and butter. But mayb...
Hostel Takeover
Eli Roth explains his penchant for fabricated blood and guts by recounting his sensationally unconventional bar mitzvah party in which a magician pretended to saw the young Roth in half—a grotesque symbolic act...
Read It and Eat
From abalone to zwieback, we tasted every food on the entire planet and came up with a list of the only 50 that really matter.
Borscht Belt Horror
You can run...you can hide...this is the soup that eats you alive. If you've never been to the Catskills, now is not the time to visit. Peter Svarzbein's stills of Heeb's first horror film.
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Guilty Gazes
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the guiltiest one of all? Nancy Schwartzman curates our gallery of guilt.
(Top photo: "My Mother as Whistler's Mother" by Melissa Leibling-Goldberg)
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