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SHARON STEEL

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Confessional record

Let’s talk about sex, baby?
You don’t have to be best friends with Giulia Rozzi to find out that she hooked up in her Jersey Shore beach house with a guy who stole her fake ID.
By SHARON STEEL  |  April 02, 2008

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Crafty retailing

Making it by making stuff
Keara Sexton was born to make stuff.
By SHARON STEEL  |  April 03, 2008

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Bring the drama

High School Confidential ’s missed opportunity
In the current œuvre of celluloid adolescent misadventures, it’s difficult to find a show that stands apart.
By SHARON STEEL  |  March 24, 2008

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Minimal man

José González at the Paradise Rock Club, March 13, 2008
The notes José González coaxes out of his nylon-stringed guitar are bright and dry.
By SHARON STEEL  |  March 21, 2008

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Same to you, fella

Find your vituperative voice
Snarking back at self-righteous, passive-aggressive, thick-skulled dimwits isn’t as easy as you might think.
By SHARON STEEL  |  March 05, 2008

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Less is best

The spare science of José González
González possesses the will power and the patience to dig into each of his songs until he has exhumed its bleeding heart.
By SHARON STEEL  |  March 04, 2008

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Publish and Perish?

Blogging Harvard courses could revolutionize open education — if its contributors aren’t expelled first
Professor Tal Ben-Shahar is a resident rock-star lecturer on Harvard’s campus.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 28, 2008

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Web lore

Sarah Boxer’s best of the blogosphere
Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web outs itself on the back cover: “A book of blogs? WTF!!!”
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 25, 2008

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Steaming

The Millionaire Matchmaker  delivers
Patti Stanger, a “third-generation matchmaker,” describes her work as a service to God.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 25, 2008

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Who I am

Paris speaks
She answers my questions in a Valley Girl vixen voice, with a languid aplomb that characterizes the way she approaches life.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 13, 2008

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The Hottie and the Nottie

Total makeover madness
It’s a shame you can’t auto-tune acting talent the same way you can manufacture vocals in the recording studio.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 06, 2008

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High school memories

Spice Girls at the TD Banknorth Garden, January 30, 2008
Tweenagers in 1998 didn’t have Hannah Montana or High School Musical . We did, however, have five British ladies who sold us on Girl Power.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 05, 2008

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The cuteness surge

Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens
Cuteness, of course, is the collective cultural cure-all to our problems.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 01, 2008

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The things we did for love

Cry and the world laughs with you
Your high-school experiences probably fall between middling and unspeakably horrifying on the unofficial scale of shame.
By SHARON STEEL  |  January 30, 2008

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Abs of steel

American Gladiators does the gym proud
A wonderfully campy, oddly comforting motivator that suggests anyone with the guts and desire can become a modernized version of a Roman warrior.
By SHARON STEEL  |  January 28, 2008

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Artificial flavor of the month

The Spice Girls test their shelf life
There is a part of me that sympathizes with Victoria Beckham.
By SHARON STEEL  |  January 22, 2008

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Lagerfeld Confidential

“Ephemeral, dangerous, and unfair”
Karl Lagerfeld is a cherished enigma of the fashion world.
By SHARON STEEL  |  December 26, 2007

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It parade

In 2008, novels turn to fairies, fashion goes faux green, and Star Trek  gets all 90210
There is a moment, at the end of a beauty pageant, when the previous year’s winner is forced to place the sparkling crown on a new champion’s head.
By SHARON STEEL  |  December 26, 2007

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Challenging Voldemedia

Potter activists
Is Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin working under the Imperius Curse?
By SHARON STEEL  |  December 20, 2007

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The art of cause

A T-shirt designer on a mission
Michael Crigler is something of a mini-celebrity in artsy Boston circles.
By SHARON STEEL  |  December 12, 2007
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