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In DepthThemed Week
The Uncanny, Fluorescent World of the Costco Influencer
In DepthThemed Week

The Uncanny, Fluorescent World of the Costco Influencer

The photographs taken by the Costco influencers are just devastatingly banal: a two-pack of Primal Kitchen Caesar…

By
Molly Osberg
PublishedMay 20, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
Forty Years of Queering the Suburbs
In DepthThemed Week

Forty Years of Queering the Suburbs

On the third Friday of each month, college professor Jerry and scientist B.J. attended the monthly potluck of the…

By
Rich Juzwiak
PublishedMay 11, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
Looking Back at the Debut of <i>Real Housewives of Orange County</i>, the Show That Started It All
In DepthThemed Week

Looking Back at the Debut of Real Housewives of Orange County, the Show That Started It All

The Real Housewives of Orange County wasn’t supposed to end up as it did. It was supposed to be a quaint little…

By
Joan Summers
PublishedMay 5, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
<i>Fifty Shades</i>, Pole Dancing, and Secret Swingers: The Mythology of the 'Sex-Mad' Suburban Woman
In DepthThemed Week

Fifty Shades, Pole Dancing, and Secret Swingers: The Mythology of the 'Sex-Mad' Suburban Woman

The stereotypical image of the suburban woman is one of selflessness, order, and safety: identical houses, minivans…

By
Tracy Clark-Flory
PublishedMay 5, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
The Subtle Gatekeeping of 'Good' Suburban Supermarkets
In DepthThemed Week

The Subtle Gatekeeping of 'Good' Suburban Supermarkets

High atop a hill in Yonkers, New York, across from a Costco and above a Home Depot rests the greatest grocery store…

By
Shannon Melero
PublishedMay 4, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
American Dream Is Too Big To Fail
In DepthThemed Week

American Dream Is Too Big To Fail

Deep in the bowels of the American Dream, a 1.3 million square foot mega-mall in New Jersey’s marshy, low-lying…

By
Megan Reynolds
PublishedMay 4, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
The Gluttony and Glory of Smash Cakes
In DepthThemed Week

The Gluttony and Glory of Smash Cakes

When Milwaukee-based food blogger and author Philia Kelnhofer first told her parents that she was making a smash cake

By
Hazel Cills
PublishedMay 3, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
The Blueprint Clarence Thomas Wrote
In DepthThemed Week

The Blueprint Clarence Thomas Wrote

In November of 1991, a few months after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to his lifetime appointment on the Supreme…

By
Molly Osberg
PublishedMarch 8, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
Before Peloton There Was Spinning®: How 2 Guys Named John Birthed the Unwieldy Fitness Trend
In DepthThemed Week

Before Peloton There Was Spinning®: How 2 Guys Named John Birthed the Unwieldy Fitness Trend

In 2014, FiveThirtyEight published a story by Mona Chalabi titled “Why Women Don’t Cycle,” examining studies that…

By
Shannon Melero
PublishedMarch 5, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
Inside the Making of <i>People</i>'s Iconic '50 Most Beautiful' Issue
In DepthThemed Week

Inside the Making of People's Iconic '50 Most Beautiful' Issue

It’s no surprise that the editors of the very first issue of People’s now-iconic “50 Most Beautiful People” issue…

By
Joan Summers
PublishedMarch 2, 2021
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In DepthThemed Week
A Chilling Christmas Ghost Story From 1915
In DepthThemed Week

A Chilling Christmas Ghost Story From 1915

You know about A Christmas Carol, but Dickens was far from the only author of his era to set a ghost story during…

By
Anna Alice Chapin
PublishedDecember 23, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
A Requiem for Live Music
In DepthThemed Week

A Requiem for Live Music

Twenty minutes before leaving Brooklyn, I had an existential crisis. This panic was uncharacteristically manageable,…

By
Maria Sherman
PublishedDecember 22, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
Our Last Normal Night
In DepthThemed Week

Our Last Normal Night

Ideally, at some point in 2021, we will collectively and tacitly agree to take 2020 and throw it in the garbage—a…

ByJezebel Staff
PublishedDecember 22, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
The Worst Shows We Streamed This Year After Running Out of Things to Watch
In DepthThemed Week

The Worst Shows We Streamed This Year After Running Out of Things to Watch

The year 2020 was marked by a lot: a global health pandemic that kept everyone inside and made conspiracy theorists i…

ByJezebel Staff
PublishedDecember 21, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
All the Music That Saved Us in 2020
In DepthThemed Week

All the Music That Saved Us in 2020

There’s no way to introduce this list without coming off dizzyingly earnest—good thing sincerity always plays when…

ByJezebel Staff
PublishedDecember 18, 2020
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Billie Eilish Remixes 'Til I Die: The Sounds That Tortured TikTok in 2020
In DepthThemed Week

Billie Eilish Remixes 'Til I Die: The Sounds That Tortured TikTok in 2020

TikTok is a place that is simultaneously mostly bad and mostly good, a singular paradox that sustains itself on the…

By
Joan Summers
PublishedDecember 17, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
Longing For a Theater Filled With Strangers
In DepthThemed Week

Longing For a Theater Filled With Strangers

Several years ago, at an independent South Jersey movie theater that would later be overtaken by AMC corporate, I…

By
Hazel Cills
PublishedDecember 17, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
The Best Books We Read All Stinkin' Year
In DepthThemed Week

The Best Books We Read All Stinkin' Year

When the staff of Jezebel isn’t writing the blogs that you continue to read, we are occasionally reading books.…

ByJezebel Staff
PublishedDecember 16, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
The TikToks That Got Us Through
In DepthThemed Week

The TikToks That Got Us Through

In a long year where everything was, generally, not great, the one questionably-bright star in our collective galaxy…

ByJezebel Staff
PublishedDecember 15, 2020
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In DepthThemed Week
A Terrifying (True) Tale About a Haunted Shed That's Also a Portal to The Underworld
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In DepthThemed Week

A Terrifying (True) Tale About a Haunted Shed That's Also a Portal to The Underworld

I am afraid of just about everything and spooky season is a particularly fraught time for me and my jumpy nerves.…

PublishedOctober 20, 2020
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