This year emails with subjects like “shop Black Friday early!” are dropping in your inbox faster than your cousin grabbing all the rolls at Thanksgiving dinner. So should you shop now or wait a few weeks? What do I know? Maybe nothing. But I do love a sale and practically consider price-hunting a sport. I’ve […]
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You’re so over X/Twitter and can’t quite seem to entirely leave. You’ve got a few friends on Threads and a few on Bluesky. You’re pretty sure you also have accounts on at least five other social media networks and have forgotten most of them. And once in a while you hear the words “fediverse” and have a friend on something called Mastodon, but you don’t know where to start. Let me help!
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When it comes to hair-related products, you should know what kind of head is giving you the scoop. As a small child, I had solid 3a/3b ringlets. For the first chunk of my adulthood, I didn’t understand anything about curl types and suffered from attempting to apply advice from styling magazines clearly targeted at naturally […]
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A few weeks ago, I was looking for an audiobook to listen to in the car while driving a few hours to a college visit with my high school senior, and the library’s catalog suggested ‘It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs.’
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If you’ve got a young artist thinking about career options, put Dragon Con on next fall’s calendar.
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My friends, I have made mistakes going all the way back to the beginning of my first pregnancy. No, not mistakes, plural. Mistake, singular. Because I have learned no lessons from the past.
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Ruth shares the instant community that happened at this year’s Dragon Con thanks to the color pink.
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Some number of years ago—a number you can guess by the story itself—I read an article in which the author described the best gift her husband had ever given her. He gathered up all her watches with dead batteries and replaced them. It’s been a long time since we didn’t all have clocks on the […]
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Poring over endless con photos is fun, no argument. But sometimes you find yourself saying, “Do you remember that great ____ cosplayer at the con?” or “Oh, I didn’t see any _____ costumes!” and you need an album.
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Even if you’ve never been to Dragon Con, you recognize some of its host hotels and spaces.
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Every year for the last 20 years, I know it’s con time when I check into my hotel and can turn on DragonConTV.
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Annette Dauphin Simon shares spine poems with the world in ‘Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers.’
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The (brief) entirety of The Golden Palace has dropped on Hulu, and I am more than here for it. If you weren’t dedicated to The Golden Girls in the 80s, here’s what you missed when it ended: Dorothy (Bea Arthur) got married and moved away, and the remaining three girls bought and moved into a […]
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If you’re in New York or Los Angeles in the next few weeks, don’t miss the ‘Stranger Things’ pop-up stores.
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Not in Atlanta this weekend (for any of a number of very good reasons)? You can still attend Dragon Con from the comfort of whatever variant con location you may be in!
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Make a festive Rudolph mask with a nose that lights up by sewing a basic electronic circuit in conductive thread!
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Every year we bring you our favorite Black Friday deals — don’t miss this year’s list!
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The Brother ScanNCut machines are a feature-rich option if you’re in the market for an electronic cutting machine. If you’re a Disney fan, it should be high on your list. If you’re a Linux user, there’s no other choice.
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Like most events in 2020, Dragon Con will not be held as an in-person event. But they will be moving online–and it’s free for everyone, whether you were planning to attend or not.
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How to cheer up a kid who’s celebrating their birthday without friends this year? We’ve got six ways to help.
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