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Mental Detox Week

Happy Mental Detox week ! Yeah, so Mental Detox week began on Monday and I have yet to actually turn anything off - or at least the things that AdBusters , who launched the original TV Turn-Off week (now renamed Mental Detox Week) back in 1994 , want...

Flashbacks: Woman punished for being a dominatrix, Gloucester’s heroin problem, and Kafka on housebreaking a cat

MASSAGE HERESY 10 years ago April 3, 1998 | Sarah McNaught looked into why a local massage student was expelled from the Muscular Therapy Institute upon divulging that she was a professional dominatrix. “Sheila, however, says there is nothing dangerous...

Flashbacks: The Romney diet, Censorship on the MBTA, and the Pacification of Cambridge

THE ROMNEY DIET 5 years ago March 7, 2003 | Kristen Lombardi delved into Governor Romney’s fiscal budget to see who would be hurt most by his balancing act. “Even before advocates can sort through Romney’s plan and decipher where, exactly, human-services...

The Plus Side of Being a Model?

I'm delighted that the Telegraph decided to feature Crystal Renn, an extraordinarily successful plus-size model, in a feature today . But here's what I don't get. This is how writer Judy Rumbold opens her piece: To be honest, I expected Crystal...

When A Size Zero Simply Isn't Good Enough

Model Ali Michael, backstage at Anna Sui, via Style.com Christina Binkley's style piece in today's Wall Street Journal arrived just in time to close National Eating Disorders Awareness Week -- and also to remind me of the fact that as much as...

Project Runway: the cold, hard facts

I just discovered this handy, helpful chart on the Project Runway Season 4 wiki page , whilst dreamily envisioning what fashion challenges our beloved contestents might encounter on tonight's episode. (Who needs writers when we've still got the...