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My So-Called Life makes you remember what it was like to be a teenager, trying to figure out who you are while navigating the social horrors of high school with a zit so huge that even your mother is giving you pimple-popping advice.

Photos by Valerie Phillips, Styling by Aldene Johnson

As if there were ever any cause for doubt, Japan’s absolute cultural superiority over America is by 1994 a total given.

Eight years ago, when Elizabeth Wurtzel began writing her memoir about being depressed at Harvard University, she wasn’t trying to be the poster child for glumness in America. But in the few months since her book has been out, that’s...

Am I the only person who saw that movie The Cowboy Way? Maybe you saw City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold and figured cowboy-anything died the day Billy Crystal dared touch it (twice).

Last year, in the summer of 1993, I read a quote from Evan Dando, lead singer of the band the Lemonheads. It was about how he’d rather be more like a woman because “men have proved that they really can’t get it together, they can’t be cool.”

Recently, on June 12, 1994, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson was stabbed to death in the stony Los Angeles enclave of Brentwood, California, along with 25-year-old waiter Ronald Goldman.

“There’s not any cruising in here at all!” my friend Alphonse complains, looking around. He’s right. The predominantly queer crowd of ACT UP members stuffed into Revolution Books on Avenue B in New York’s East Village is rigid, alert, and crisp with...

It wasn’t long ago that Angie Hart was a sixteen year-old regular at our favourite Fitzroy live-music venue, the Punters Club. That was just prior to one of the bar tenders asking her to join his band, Frente!, at which very moment they began...

We look to pop icons to find our opposite, to break us out of our identity shells. I listen to Iggy Stooge and am transformed into a tofu-and-heroin-driven insanity gymnast. In real life, I am none of those things. Through Iggy, for a few minutes or...

Everyone knows freemasons run the world, right?