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View ArticleBad News Brenda
by Anne Helen Petersen The first in a two-week series on the pull of bad influences in our lives and in the culture. Brenda looked great in a bikini. She looked great in everyone’s bikini. She looked...
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View ArticleThings To Drink This Fall: The Chisos Chimney
by Anne Helen Petersen The Chisos Chimney is named for the Chisos Mountains, the exquisite, rugged range that defines Big Bend National Park in Middle of Nowhere, Texas. (Serious middle of nowhere:...
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View Article'Crash': The Most Loathsome Best Picture Of Them All
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View ArticleWhat Your Gap Fragrance Said About You
What Your Gap Fragrance Said About You by Anne Helen Petersen At some point in the mid-1990s, The Gap decided two things were very important: 1) convincing the world that swing dancing in dad khakis...
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