Some Towns Put an Age Limit on Trick-or-Treating

Some Towns Put an Age Limit on Trick-or-Treating

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 30, 2023, 6:10 pm

Halloween is almost here, and the debate is here again: How old is too old to go trick-or-treating? While it's generally agreed that nobody should still be asking door-to-door for candy when they hit…

Metal Detectorists Deliver a Surprise Decades in the Making

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 30, 2023, 3:05 pm

Metal detectorists are often ribbed as being nerds, but a group of those nerds helped deliver a wonderful surprise to a Nashville woman who lost her wedding ring almost a half-century ago. Skyla and…

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Bourbon Industry Has a Tree Problem

Bourbon Industry Has a Tree Problem

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 29, 2023, 12:30 pm

An imbalance of mature white oaks growing in US forests poses a long-term threat to the bourbon industry, which uses them to age the spirit in barrels. And brands like Makers Mark are taking action…

These Are the Spookiest Cities in America

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 28, 2023, 6:30 pm

Ready to get your ghoul on? Halloween is on Tuesday, and people across the nation are prepping their costumes, breaking out the candy bowls, and cueing up "Monster Mash" for when trick-or-treaters…

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Majority of Homebuyers OK With 'Haunted' House

Majority of Homebuyers OK With 'Haunted' House

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 25, 2023, 8:07 pm

Would you buy a "haunted" house if you saw it pop up online ? In this challenging market, the majority of house-hunting Americans say yes, so long as the home was appealing in other important ways.…

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Tinder to Let Friends, Relatives Play Matchmaker

Tinder to Let Friends, Relatives Play Matchmaker

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 24, 2023, 8:00 am

Tinder's latest feature allows your friends and family to get seriously invested in your love life. The dating app's new Matchmaker feature, now available in 15 countries including the US, allows…

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What Friend Groups Look Like by Generation

What Friend Groups Look Like by Generation

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 22, 2023, 9:35 pm

Does age, gender, or ethnic identity say anything about how we form friendships? According to Pew Research Center , a few trends stick out. Pew asked questions about who we define as close friends in…

Trans Teen, Family 'Run Out of Town on a Rail'

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 22, 2023, 2:30 pm

Tennessee has passed nearly 20 anti-LGBTQ+ laws since 2015, among the highest in the nation, per the Human Rights Campaign. For Kristen Chapman, that number is more than just a statistic—it proved to…

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Rare Whisky Up for Auction Is Pretty Pricey

Rare Whisky Up for Auction Is Pretty Pricey

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 22, 2023, 11:39 am

There are only 40 bottles of the Macallan Adami 1926, a Scotch whisky that spent 60 years aging in sherry casks, and someone is about to be the lucky owner of one of them. Per the Drink Business ,…

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Food and Exercise Aren't the Only Keys to Living Past 90

Food and Exercise Aren't the Only Keys to Living Past 90

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 21, 2023, 1:30 pm

While trend pieces that describe which foods to eat or the magic number of steps to walk each day may help curb disease and increase longevity, a key factor to living a very long life isn't within…

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DJing Days for This Goldman Sachs Bigwig Are Kaput

DJing Days for This Goldman Sachs Bigwig Are Kaput

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 19, 2023, 4:06 pm

If you've been to Lollapalooza or events in the Hamptons over the past few years, you may have been treated to the record-spinning skills of "DJ D-Sol"—the stage name of Goldman Sachs CEO David…

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Harvard Gets 'Visionary Gift' to Study Psychedelics

Harvard Gets 'Visionary Gift' to Study Psychedelics

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 19, 2023, 12:05 am

A former Tesla director has given Harvard what one professor describes as a "visionary gift"—$16 million to establish a Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture. The gift from Antonio Gracias via…

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Toy Hall of Fame Fans Can Vote on 'the Forgotten 5'

Toy Hall of Fame Fans Can Vote on 'the Forgotten 5'

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 17, 2023, 7:45 pm

They're playfully called the "forgotten five": A handful of toys—the pogo stick, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, My Little Pony, PEZ dispensers, and Transformers—that regularly approach toy-box royalty…

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For LGBTQ+ Advocates in India, a 'Deeply Disappointing' Ruling

For LGBTQ+ Advocates in India, a 'Deeply Disappointing' Ruling

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 17, 2023, 12:21 pm

India's top court on Tuesday refused to legalize same-sex marriages, passing the responsibility back to Parliament in a ruling that disappointed campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights in the world's most…

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Penn Gave Nobel-Winner Ultimatum: Leave, or Take Pay Cut

Penn Gave Nobel-Winner Ultimatum: Leave, or Take Pay Cut

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 9, 2023, 5:34 pm

Hungarian researcher Katalin Kariko looks pretty good on paper these days: She co-pioneered mRNA research at the University of Pennsylvania that led to COVID vaccines that helped save millions of…

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In Redefining Masculinity, Men Dig Deep at This Retreat

In Redefining Masculinity, Men Dig Deep at This Retreat

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 8, 2023, 7:20 pm

A ranch retreat for men has all the markings of a Western movie, but with a lot more soul searching. GQ writer Rosecrans Baldwin gives readers a personal peek inside the Confident Man Ranch Retreat,…

This Is Not Your Grandma's Feminine Care

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 7, 2023, 7:35 pm

Feminine care products that hearken back to women in flowing dresses wandering meadows aren't cutting it these days. Instead, younger generations respond to "real talk" around periods and vaginal…

Beige Flags Have Entered the Online Dating Chat

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 7, 2023, 3:45 pm

The latest TikTok obsession has added a new layer of stress to online dating. CNN explains the highly subjective conversation around beige flags, or benign preferences people observe in their…

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Airbnb Guest Won't Leave Luxury Estate—or Pay

Airbnb Guest Won't Leave Luxury Estate—or Pay

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 8, 2023, 12:15 pm

Elizabeth Hirschhorn rented a Los Angeles-area guesthouse from Sascha Jovanovic on Airbnb in 2021. Problems between the two of them started bubbling up five months into her six-month reservation,…

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Everyone Is Talking About Pamela Anderson's Face

Everyone Is Talking About Pamela Anderson's Face

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 3, 2023, 10:35 pm

Viv Groskop dubs it "the week it became cool for women to look their age," at the Guardian , and she's not alone in that thinking. Much of the conversation has centered around three women of a…

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For Younger Americans, Prenups Are the New Norm

For Younger Americans, Prenups Are the New Norm

Lifestyle from Newser     •     October 1, 2023, 10:46 am

More Americans are asking to sign the dotted line before putting a ring on it, especially among certain age groups. Axios breaks down the findings from a recent Harris Poll, noting that half of…

Wildfires Are Making Wines Taste Like an 'Ashtray'

Lifestyle from Newser     •     September 30, 2023, 10:15 pm

The US West Coast produces over 90% of America's wine, but the region is also prone to wildfires—a combustible combination that spelled disaster for the industry in 2020 and one that scientists are…

He Took a Legendary Cookie Recipe to His Grave. Maybe

Lifestyle from Newser     •     September 30, 2023, 8:29 pm

It starts out as a story about a hunt for a cookie recipe, but Dave Denison's piece in the Baffler ends up being more about the Thoreau-esque baker who appears to have taken the recipe to his grave.…

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