Rebecca Fishbein

There's nothing quite like waking up in the middle of the night feeling like your uterus is attempting to escape, or having it batter your abdomen in the middle of a particularly brutal workday. And though Advil and Midol are usually good methods of…

Experts recommend adults get seven to nine hours of sleep per night, a difficult feat for working folks, particularly when there's so much good stuff to watch on Netflix and your radiator clangs intermittently in the night. But for the lucky few…

The entire month of June is Pride Month, a full 30 days celebrating and recognizing the LGBTQ community, and to promote their civil equality in a society that has long denied it to them. June was chosen as Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall…

Beyoncé may be the Reigning Queen of Music and potentially God herself, but Solange Knowles is her incredibly cool baby sister, creating A+ tunes and sporting an even funkier style. So it is with great pleasure, then, that I peruse IKEA's new…

Many of us have spent the last nine months or so enraptured by the story of "Dear David," a ghost tale spun on Twitter by writer and illustrator Adam Ellis about the young specter he believes haunts his apartment. Ellis began the story in August…

My two favorite things about summer are ice cream trucks and making s'mores at campfires, both of which provide you with foods you could theoretically obtain during the winter months, but are so much better when paired with hot weather and mosquito…

We're four days into Pride Month, and in celebration, the City of New York is making moves toward inclusivity. Both the city's mayor and City Council Speaker are supporting a bill that would add an "X" gender category to city birth certificates, so…

Food combinations are a dime a dozen these days and though some — like, obviously, Applebee's' "Cheeto Bomb Burger," and Taco Bell's Nacho Fries — are stellar additions to the culinary lexicon, sometimes the market feels a tad oversaturated. Still,…

People like to put their own faces and their friends' and pets' faces on things, probably because it's comforting to look at them all the time, but also because it's hilarious to gift your buddy with pajamas with her mug all over them. Etsy has a…

Summer is finally here, according to the frizz that's taken over my hair, and with it come drink specials as endless as June daylight. Indeed, beloved chain Applebee's is cashing in on the good summer drinking by relaunching Applebee's $1 Long…

Good news for local Aurora chasers: the Northern Lights may be visible in much of the northern United States the night of Friday, June 1, thanks to a minor storm sweeping the uppermost regions of Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota,…

Taking final exams is no easy task. First, there's the prep, which requires you to hide the Apple TV from yourself and disable all your streaming sites/access to Twitter, while you attempt to shove some facts into your brain. Then, there's pre-exam…

Now matter how you feel about Amazon's recent acquisition of Whole Foods, there's no denying that the merging of these two big players has some major upsides. First, there was the advent of Amazon Prime Now, which will deliver groceries and other…

Sugared cereal is one of the greatest joys in life, if perhaps a less great gift to your bloodstream. All the good childhood mornings kicked off with a bowl of Lucky Charms, while the bad ones were for tasteless straw cereal like Shredded Wheat…

Sangria is, far and wide, the best summer drink. Chilled wine? Check. Fruit? Check. A mysterious amount of alcohol of unclear origin? Double check. Sangria lives somewhere in the valley between wine and a cocktail, and it is a perfect companion to a…

Prepping a funeral is not a particularly pleasant activity. You're already dealing with grief, for one thing, and there's a lot of nitty gritty (and unforeseen expenses) that goes into booking a funeral home, transporting a body, and getting friends…

Disney heroines have longed lived in enviable abodes. Who among us, for instance, wouldn't like to spend an hour or two in Ariel's underwater kingdom, or perusing the library with Belle in the Beast's castle? And weren't Jasmine's Arabian drapes the…

One of the things that's so fascinating about social media is that it gives you a glimpse into the lives of people wholly unlike you, who have their own hopes, dreams, and opinions. On the other hand, when someone expresses an opinion that diverges…

It's an undeniable truth that it hurts to be far from your best buddies. This certainly is the case if you move away from them; it's sometimes the case when you're on a trip out of town and see groups of pals hanging out that are not your own, and…