When I was in middle school, my sister and I ripped open wrapping paper one Christmas morning to reveal matching periwinkle sweatshirts from my aunt. The sweatshirts, which boldly displayed the word “Gap” across the chest, were much more expensive…

From the inside of the Shinkansen, the Japanese lightning-fast bullet train, it might not feel like you're traveling at speeds of 200 mph. But from the outside, some might argue that it looks like you're going even faster. If you blink, you might…

Sugar, spice, and everything nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls, but Professor Utonium accidentally added something extra to the concoction — Chemical X — thus creating one of the greatest series of our…

It's hard to believe that 20 years have passed since one of the best pop holiday records of all time came out. *NSYNC's album Home for Christmas hit record stores in 1998, just one year after their self-titled debut introduced the boy band to…

Pilar Quintana-Williams is telling me about that time she dressed as a sexy piece of pizza to go to a pizza place. It wasn't Halloween, but, yes, she had lost a bet. The wager? That if that same sexy pizza costume sold a certain amount of units, she…

When the Disney Channel Original Movie first aired 20 years ago, Halloweentown made history. It was the first featuring a female lead, paving the way for other memorable DCOMs with headstrong teen heroines. But Halloweentown isn't just Marnie's…

R.L. Stine doesn't believe in ghosts. Or vampires, sasquatches, wise-cracking demonic ventriloquist's dummies, or any of the other supernatural creatures who've crept through the pages of his mega-bestselling children's horror series, Goosebumps.…

Shampoo doesn't typically inspire the same type of nostalgic swooning as, say, a Caboodle or the roll on body glitter one would apply before a middle school dance. There does seem to be one exception, though: Herbal Essences. "The bathroom my sister…

Crisp cucumber. Watery honeydew. Summer cantaloupe. Sparkling grapefruit. Sheer woods. These are the exact phrases used in press releases to describe the notes in Bath & Body Works' classic Cucumber Melon scent. And sure, those words do a great job…

Ah, nostalgia. Any ‘90s kid knows the feeling well, having spent countless hours wishing for the return of boy bands, hair crimpers, and jelly shoes. And while some forms of nostalgia hit the majority of us in the collective feels, there’s a hidden…

On a summer day in 1998, two 11-year-old girls were sent to sleepaway camp — and the world was never the same. Well, not quite; although The Parent Trap was indeed a success upon its July 29 release, coming in #2 behind Saving Private Ryan, most…

Thanks to Jurassic Park, the summer of 1993 was all about dinosaurs, which didn't leave much room for three witches looking to steal the souls of the children in Salem. But 25 years later, Hocus Pocus is a cult favorite that plays every Halloween…