Halloween is getting scarier. It's starting to rival Christmas in toxicity without so much as a "boo." It's the costumes, mostly. Somehow, along with going less green, they've also become more boring.

Look, I don't want environmentalism to spoil the party -- I'm hoping it can save it, in fact....

The latest consumer item to be downsized this recession is breasts. It's not just that fewer women are shelling out ten grand for a pair of silicone cups, but that some women are going under the knife to have large implants turned into smaller ones.

The Daily Beast...

On Monday, when America's two most famous parents filed for divorce, it wasn't really a surprise. They're parents. Jon + Kate + 8 = divorce.

"As always, my first priority remains our children," said Kate on Monday night. She's the mother on John and Kate Plus 8, a...

Dave Letterman sat on a wall. Dave Letterman had a great fall. But will all the media's horses and the court of public opinion put him back together again today?

The drama, of course, has been playing out for a week, ever since Letterman quipped last Monday that while in...

"Having a kid is so gay," a man told me recently. How's that for irony? Especially given that the guy is pushing 40.

It's the kind of juvenile language that only makes sense when you understand the near-hysteria about family life that exists in a new tribe of middle aged,...

I turned 35 a few months ago, and since then the floodgates have opened on one sunny piece of unsolicited advice: "If you're going to have kids, you'd better hurry up," as if I didn't realize I was nearing my best-by date for both motherhood and youth.

You'd have...

Teen births are up for the second year in a row. But when Bill Maher, on his show Real Time, asked his guest panel why that might be the case, or what could be done about it, the trio became suddenly mute. Only one panel member, Carrie Washington,...

I'm with anyone who thinks it's an oversized offense to slight someone based on their girth.

I'm also against the bloated double standard. There are few or no remarks made about a man's shirt, jacket or pants size when he performs a job (save when his job is directly...

This is the third week of Armgate, or Sleevegate. It could also be called Bicep Bruhaha. To some, Michelle Obama is going out on a limb, is armed and dangerous, and out to start her own arms race. Her pipes have even...

Gwyneth Paltrow could be the future of journalism.

Not as the subject of articles or magazines, but the writer and publisher of them. Her weekly e-newsletter and blog, Goop, which offers earnest advice on how to improve our tasteless, unstylish, ignorant lives, has 150,000 subscribers...

Is it me, or is there more love in the air than usual? Rose-colored glasses are everywhere, and not just from a V-day hangover or annual spring fever. The reality malaise is in full bloom, both on TV's small screen and life's big screen. Down with reality! We want escape!...

The Obama election has captured the world's imagination like no previous one. So Canadians, like people in most countries, will be tuning in to the big ceremony and its reverberating celebrations. Inaugural stories currently dominate every media format from TV and radio, to blogs, tabloids and serious dailies, and everywhere...

Millions of people have been bitten by the vampire recently. Twilight's gorging of the weekend box office (earning $70.6 million, the second highest ever for an indie film), and HBO's True Blood season finale are its metaphorical bloody bite marks.

For those of you who haven't partaken of...

As a good Canadian, I have always found you, America, to represent everything to be wary of. You've always seemed overly big, bright and loud. You produced Donald Trump, George Bush and Britney Spears: all truly, madly, deeply, anti-Canuck. With some few exceptions, you come across as self-interested, self-absorbed and...

"Madonna's adopted son would be better off in Malawi,'" says his biological father in the U.K.'s Daily Mail.

Apparently, "The real father of Madonna's adopted son feels bitterly disappointed that she is getting a divorce -- and yesterday declared: 'I am still a poor farmer...

Here's a game. Match the tabloid quote to the new mom it is discussing: Jamie Lynn Spears or Angelina Jolie.

"Having [another] baby now would only be a recipe for disaster,"

"[Her] family is hysterical [about the news that she is pregnant again] and pressuring her to abort."

"I...

I'm so depressed about Sarah Palin. Fighting against what she stands for and what makes her popular seems like a David versus Goliath battle, only more mismatched.

This weekend, when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened the season of Saturday Night Live with their electric impersonations of Sarah Palin...

No star would have been caught dead arriving in a stretch Hummer to this weekend's MTV awards. But even though disposable fashion is arguably an even worse enviro-crime, no star would have been caught dead wearing something they'd ever worn before. It seems the stigma associated with committing...

The trouble with achieving something is that someone invariably beats you at your own game. That's the case with the Olympics, but the race isn't to the medal podium.

Sports fans may still be watching, but the Olympics have gone quiet on the pop culture radar. The Games used to...

To be a strong woman, a good feminist and even save the world, you need to be a bitch, according to a recent spate of articles.

"Britain would be a better place if we had more bitches," argues Victoria Coren in this weekend's Observer. She...