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The 80s

WATCH: Is This What College Was Like In The '80s?

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Klein | Posted 05.10.2013 | College

Boom boxes, Pac-Man arcade games, men in short shorts. Is this what college was like in the 1980s? This retro video supposedly documents what life ...

Hey Girl... Happy Valentine's Day

Jen M.L. | Posted 04.15.2013 | Parents
Jen M.L.

I spent many a Valentine's Day home alone wishing someone would spend his allowance on a ridiculously over-sized teddy bear holding a plush heart that I could perch in the corner of my room as a constant reminder that someone loved me. I've written a letter to that girl.

WATCH If 'The Walking Dead' Were An '80s Sitcom

Posted 02.04.2013 | Comedy

The '80s were a golden age of landmark, influential television: "Cheers," "Hill Street Blues," "The Walking Dead." What? You don't remember "The Wa...

Juice Newton: Still The Queen of Hearts in San Francisco

Greg Archer | Posted 01.12.2013 | San Francisco
Greg Archer

Five-time Grammy-nominated performer Juice Newton, whose hits "Angel of the Morning" and, of course, "Queen of Hearts," found her celebrity soaring back in the '80s, is rooted in folk music and some '60s pop and rock.

Your Favorite Celebrities Weren't Always So Stylish

The Huffington Post | Sarah Leon | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style

While Demi Moore, Brooke Shields and Julia Roberts may grace our weekly Best-Dressed lists and Look Of The Day columns now, they weren't always so sty...

Awkward Family Photos: The '80s Edition

Mike Bender | Posted 08.10.2012 | Home
Mike Bender

The '80s-- it was a time of ripped sweatshirts, big hair, bangles and acid-washed jeans. And looking back now, it was also a time of glorious and awesome family awkwardness.

The Last Dance: Donna Summer (1948-2012)

Howard Barbanel | Posted 07.17.2012 | Entertainment
Howard Barbanel

All she asked "is that you dance with me," and dance we did. Donna Summer, the voice of an era, gone at 63.

WATCH: Top Nostalgic '80s Songs

Posted 10.09.2011 | Arts

Songs running the gamut from Madonna's pop anthems to Public Enemy's political rhymes make the 1980s an undeniably great decade for music. Here at Huf...

WATCH: 'The Office' As An 80s Sitcom

Posted 08.14.2011 | Comedy

If there's one thing people love more than NBC's comedy lineup, it's 80's nostalgia. YouTuber benny2700 has found the perfect way to combine them both...

Happy to Be "Irrelevant"

Stephanie Dolgoff | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Stephanie Dolgoff

The '80s were when I was in high school and college, when, like every raw and angsty adolescent, I felt on some level that Simon LeBon and Natalie Merchant and even Ozzy Osbourne were living inside my head.

When The Closet Isn't a Closet: A Periodic History Of Personal Discretion

Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Mark Olmsted

I went to school in the 70s, worked on Wall Street in the 80s, and went to prison in 2004. These experiences constitute six of the last 32 years. For 20 percent of my life as a gay man, I hid my sexuality.

Revenge of Gen-X: What Movies About the 80s Mean

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

In case you needed proof that Hollywood is dominated by and aimed at people in their 30s and early 40s, look at all the movies about the 1980s currently on screens.

My Friend Ian Browde's Right Brain Reflections

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Yvonne R. Davis

With the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the world has entered a new economic context, "social or community capitalism," which will become our paradigm by 2015 - 2020.