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“Princess Snow White!” screamed Sasha one day last week in the middle of the East Broadway F-train station. I looked around: Huh? There were no subway posters advertising Disney’s oldest animated princess, no kids dressed up as Snow White—nothing. Then I gazed down two sets of stairs to the train platform, where on another kid’s [...]

Oh god, oh god, oh god! Fuck you, Gmail, for making this ad, in which a tech-savvy dad uses all of Google’s web services to create a portrait of his adorable daughter starting the day she’s born, with the idea that one day he’ll share with her all the e-mails he’s written her, YouTube videos [...]

Let’s be clear: I am not one to make fun of people who are go a little too far to find good food. I overpay for heirloom tomatoes and triple crème, like all annoying urban elitists do. But we all have the line we will not cross, and at this year’s Fancy Food Show, someone [...]

In recent weeks, we’ve run a few items about the cutting edge fashion revolution in diapers. We’ve also discussed how diaper companies are only now beginning to recognize that men actually change diapers from time to time. Frankly, I always just thought diaper marketing was about moving units (zing!). But apparently not. Here’s an ad [...]