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Tight jeans, rabid teens, and the One Direction infection

by Jessica Mendoza - March 30, 2012 - 12:00am

Just when you’ve finally accepted that Justin Bieber and his horde of zealot fans are here to stay, the latest craze in tween music decides to cross the pond and invade America—and in effect, the ...

Wordplay: A geek's guide to origins

by Jessica Mendoza - August 5, 2011 - 12:00am

I am lured by language, piqued by patois, attracted to alliteration, excited by etymology.

The evolution of the supernatural teen in pop culture: Beauty in the beast

by Jessica Mendoza - July 22, 2011 - 12:00am

In 1985, a fantasy-comedy film about Scott Howard, a high school student who discovers that he turns big, brown, and bushy whenever he gets angry, exploded on the box office.

The courtside experience from the point of view of a bibliophile: Geek goes to the games

by Jessica Mendoza - July 15, 2011 - 12:00am

To say that I wasn’t much into sports growing up is like saying that water is kind of wet.

Notes from the dugout:Boys on the side

by Jessica Mendoza - October 9, 2010 - 12:00am

September 30, 2010.

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