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Should Grandma Smoke Pot?

I It sounds like a throwaway joke in an Adam Sandler movie—let’s get Nana high!—but Philly native Robert Platshorn is deadly serious about his mission: […]

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Today’s Twentysomethings Aren’t Ready for Parenthood

Over the weekend, the first of my friends from high school became a grandma. Actually, she became a “Loli,” because she hated the way “Gran” […]

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Thanks to Russian Scientists, You Can Be Immortal in 2045

If you were offered the chance to live forever, would you take it? What about if your chance at immortality came from a 31-year-old Russian […]

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Middle-Aged Woman Confesses: I Adore the Spice Girls

I’m so ashamed. My secret obsession has been revealed. I must now face the scorn and ridicule of my family. It went down like this: […]

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This Country Needs More Radical Grandmas

Back in November 2011—back when the crisp winds of change seemed to crackle in New York’s smoggy air and camping space at Zuccotti Park was […]

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The Beatles Are on Slow Fade Into Pop Culture Obscurity

You’ll have heard of the import from Britain that has redefined young folk’s relationship with music. I’m talking, of course, about Spotify, the legal music […]

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Millennials Get Cabin in the Woods in a Way Boomers Never Will

Let me start by saying: SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! If you have yet to see Cabin in the Woods, produced and co-written by the inimitable […]

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Millennials to Boomers: Shut Up

My car’s red gas light turned on last week on my way to work. The local radio guy says through the static that millennials don’t […]