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Oh, teenagers, always amazing us with their rebellious ways. But in the case of sexual role models, teens are getting really hipster on us by looking up to the last people we expected them to look up to — their parents. A study has found that teenagers' sexual behavior is most influenced by their parents, more than friends and celebrities. The research showed 45 percent of teens take sexual Read more
Penn Badgley already plays the least messed-up, and consequently most boring, teenager on Gossip Girl, and this week he'll morph into an even younger teen in the high-school comedy Easy A. New York magazine asked the 23 year old what he'd like to go back and tell his 17-year-old self, but he had nothing to say. "I believe you have to make your mistakes and deal with the consequences and learn Read more
16-year-old Jonathan Escobar of Kennesaw, GA, was told by his high school to dress "more manly," so the teen who expressed himself by donning wigs and wearing makeup decided to drop out rather than put up with the dictates. I think Jonathan looks like an eccentric Hitchcock heroine, and I don't see how this is any different from a teen dressing up goth or emo. (Would they get away with telling a Read more
Do you gals remember Sassy? Before Teen Vogue there was Sassy, a late-eighties teen mag about feminism, celebrities and girl culture. What set Sassy apart from other magazines at the time was its honest voice and too-cool attitude - although some say this blase attitude contributed to its demise in 1996. Almost twenty years later, New York writers Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer have written a Read more
Protests head to the Apple store today — Newser Superman's Fortress of Solitude is real! — Cracked Just how big is the universe? — Dvice A sci-fi and fantasy teen Summer writing camp backed by sci-fi heavyweights — PopCandy FBI called Steve Jobs "deceptive" — SlashGear Knitting needles used in space make for an awesome video — Tecca Read more
New study links spanking to future aggressive behavior — Parenting Five reasons not to regret your embarrassing tattoo — The Stir Guess which celeb mom is the first to push the Origami? — Celebrity Baby Scoop Nickelodeon to launch new Franklin and Friends program — Celebrity Baby Blog Is a cake the right way to find out if it is a boy or a girl? — FitPregnancy The best baby-making Read more
It's no surprise we've deemed Karlie Kloss one of our stylish model MVPs. Her ever-growing list of red-carpet appearances, cool street-style snapshots, and dramatic turns on the runway make her a no-brainer for style-setting honors. Let's recap. The 19-year-old catwalking stunner has already graced the covers of Vogue Italia, Teen Vogue, Vogue Australia, and more. She has opened and closed the Read more
Josh Hutcherson is back as teen explorer Sean Anderson in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. He shares the big screen with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Vanessa Hudgens in a 3D adventure that takes viewers through a jungle, beneath the sea, and inside the ruins of a lost city. I sat down with Josh during the film's press junket in Honolulu, where he shared stories about pranking his costars and I Read more
In a recent appearance on her mother's show, The Talk, frequent hair-color-changer Kelly Osbourne had a few things to say about thirtysomethings and out-there hair color. "To me, I'm 27, I've got three years left, the way I look at it, to have fun with it," she explained, adding, "Because once you're 30, you look like a right idiot walking around with like rainbow, bright color hair." While it Read more
Supernatural teens used their powers to win the box office this weekend, as new sci-fi release Chronicle won first place with $22 million. Daniel Radcliffe's horror flick The Woman in Black was hot on its heels, though, earning $21 million in its first weekend. Last weekend's box office winner, The Grey, came in third with $9.5 million. John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore couldn't pull off a Big Read more
