The country’s best college towns have more to offer than reading rooms and gravity bongs. So go visit the younger sister, step-godson, embarrassing summer fling. We’ve found treats for everyone’s budget. (Just, please, behave at the frat house.)

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Getting married is a little bit like blasting off into outer space.

A journey beyond the limits of anything you’ve known before. Crossing into uncharted territory. Braving new worlds.

And the preparations can get pretty harrowing. But if there’s one ...

Kids and jack-o’-lanterns? A classic combination.

Kids and knives? Eh. Not so much.

This year gather the wee ones and, instead of handing them a ten-pound squash and a lethal weapon, create Halloween faces in a safer, just-as-fun way: DailyCandy’s ...

The sun’s barely up and already you’re in a staring contest with your closet.

Not a single acceptable outfit in sight.

What to do? Collapse in a quivering, sobbing heap? Burrow back under the duvet? Eat nine waffles?

Hold on ...

Yesterday, during a heated cocktail-party debate over the most influential figure in Western history, your erudite blind date nominated Johannes Gutenberg.

“Well, I loved him in Cocoon,” you drawled condescendingly, “but I hardly think that puts him the same ...

Unless you’re one of the famous ones (Great, Wailing), being a wall is a pretty thankless existence.

A lifetime of holding up ceilings and keeping out bad weather. And how do we thank them? By adorning them with taped-up Britney ...

Like any It-designer worth his salt, Jonathan Adler has a manifesto. Here’s a sampling:

We believe in dorky enthusiasm.
We believe in always being underdressed or overdressed.
We believe celebrities should pay full price.
We believe dogs should be allowed ...