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Lipstick bungle

It’s impossible to discuss Lipstick Jungle without making comparisons to Sex and the City.
The Candace Bushnell-based series is no better than a cheap knock-off
By ELLEE DEAN | February 11, 2008

The merger of thought and glossy spreads of girls in streaming, DIY couture.
Two new Boston mags aimed at women beg the question, why not the perfect women's magazine?
By ELLEE DEAN | January 15, 2008

If we had our way . . .

However tempting, I do not wish for movie stars.
Three wishes for improving winter sports in New England
By ELLEE DEAN | November 14, 2007

Pet Projekt

What Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, had to say about the upcoming rock/hip-hop tour, pyrotechnics, and anti-ambition.
Gerard Way talks about the Projekt Revolution tour
By ELLEE DEAN | August 27, 2007

Reality ingenue

What is it about MTV’s top-rated reality show The Hills , premiering its third season August 13th?
Lauren Conrad on MTV's The Hills
By ELLEE DEAN | August 13, 2007

The last Potter

The end is never easy, is it?
What does the end mean for Harry’s strange Boston disciples?
By SHARON STEEL | July 24, 2007

Breaking the spell

How did a “children’s story” become the literary epic of our time?
Harry Potter’s story comes to an end — but will readers, or reading, ever be the same?
By JOYCE MILLMAN | July 24, 2007

Potter-schmotter!

No reading required.
25 fantasy films that lock horns, swords, and wands with Harry Potter
By ELLEE DEAN AND MADDY MYERS | July 24, 2007

Modern enchantress

It’s no wonder producers picked Hickey’s version of “Modern Love” as a soundtrack to aneurysms, scrabble, and heart attacks.
Last Town Chorus, Lizard Lounge, July 11, 2007
By ELLEE DEAN | July 12, 2007

Wall jumpers

In the center section of Frederick Taylor’s book about the Berlin Wall, there’s a November 1989 photograph of rows of Berliners straddling the high cement barrier.
Frederick Taylor’s Berlin story
By ELLEE DEAN | June 19, 2007

An old poet

Sometime after the lights went out, Willie Nelson walked on stage.
Willie Nelson, Meadowbrook US Cellular Pavilion, Gilford, NH, June 15, 2007
By ELLEE DEAN | June 19, 2007

I'm like a bore

The Nelly Furtado concert was off to a fine, Lite-Brite sort of start.
Nelly Furtado, Agganis Arena, June 5, 2007
By ELLEE DEAN | June 06, 2007

Good vibrations

In honor of dancing dirty, as well as Patrick Swayze’s open-shirt-pelvic-thrusting summer camp fantasy, we offer this list of the dirtiest dancing music videos we could find.
The 15 dirtiest dancing music videos
By ELLEE DEAN | May 24, 2007

Grey's red-headed stepchild

ABC’s Thursday-night medical drama Grey’s Anatomy is due to have a baby in the form of a spin-off — tentatively, its name is Private Practice .
How could a show so good spawn something so bad?
By ELLEE DEAN | May 04, 2007

One hell of a socialite

Summer of ’63 with Sinatra, three-times a divorcee, and a gold cape cut from the curtains of the old San Francisco opera house.
Pat Montandon's eccentric new memoir
By ELLEE DEAN | April 13, 2007

After school special

Scary Monsters looked like skinny monsters.
Scary Monsters + Perennials, Great Scott, March 20, 2007
By ELLEE DEAN | March 21, 2007

A lost fan

What happened to the black plumes of smoke?
Stranded somewhere in the South Pacific
By ELLEE DEAN | February 16, 2007

Sex, Iraq, and pop culture

How many times a day do you think about sex? How many times a day do you think about the war in Iraq?
The war for our attention
By ELLEE DEAN | January 11, 2007

Grading Grey's

It’s midterm time, beautiful intern babies! So here it is — the interns, the grades, and how each of them could stand to up their scores by the end of the semester/season.
TV midterm for Grey's Anatomy
By ELLEE DEAN | December 18, 2006

Schoolhouse sex: It rocks

Dorm-room digs are not conducive to sex, any sort of sex at all — even with your roommate.
Ten places — and then some — to tryst where your roommate can’t bother you
By ELLEE DEAN | August 30, 2006

For love or money

You suffered the high-school advisor, her dizzying ?oral-print dresses, her tightly-wound chignon, and, in your catatonic, college-search state, heard her statistics-riddled drone.
Tips for finding the continuing-ed courses of your dreams
By ELLEE DEAN | August 17, 2006

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