I spent the last two weeks meditating for several hours a day, maintaining silence, and chanting a hell of a lot -- such is the drill at my Zen temple's annual summer retreat. It's 24/7 spiritual development on hyperspeed, thanks to the lack of chatter, the lack of internet and...

I went into Friends With Benefits with my paws up, ready to hate it (and also ready to very much enjoy the relief of the movie theater's hyper-powered air conditioning).

I walked out wistful, hopeful, thoughtful, and desperate for the oppressive heat to counteract the ridiculously hyperactive air conditioning in...

Betty Ford had higher poll numbers than her husband when he was president, and we can see why: The former First Lady, who died Friday at the age of 93, could, quite simply, not have been a cooler chick. The famous rehab center bearing her name aside --...

After having a few recent conversations about whether men can even be feminist (The Sexy Feminist says: YES) and stumbling across this plea for guy-friendly feminist reading from a concerned girlfriend, we got to thinking: What does it take to be a feminist boyfriend? Let us count the ways:

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Two Disney spawn are making news this week yet again for playing against type. In one corner is the now-former Hannah Montana, 18-year-old Miley Cyrus, apologizing publicly -- via exclusive Marie Claire interview -- says she's sorry about the bong-hit seen 'round the web because some of her...

Disney changed children's television history by accident -- or, more accurately, by desperately seeking money. Walt and his brother, Roy, needed tons of funding to realize Walt's greatest vision -- a great, clean, destination amusement park for families to be called Disneyland. The TV networks had been pestering the animated...

The original Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950s was the spiritual breeding ground for the kiddie-star explosion of today -- it built the model by which Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and the like have risen to ubiquity. But as I document in my new book, Why? Because We...

The bizarre mouse-ear-flapped beanies that the 1950s Mouseketeers made famous were, as it turned out, a bit of a reverse-sexist proposition. They brought out the vainest impulses in the teen boys in the cast who'd slave over their pompadours daily only to have their coifs ruined by the ridiculous head-wear....

Throughout this whole Lindsay/Britney/Paris nightmare cycle we've been stuck in for lo these many months now, for all the talk there's been about the gals' very public breakdowns -- and man, has there been a lot of talk -- there's one glaring question that's scarcely raised: What does this say...