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PopGurls Guide to Summer Girlie Drinks

PopGurls Guide to Summer Girlie Drinks

It’s summer, and the long, hot days are probably making you crave something refreshing to unwind with once the sun finally goes down. Sometimes you want a beer in an ice cold bottle. Sometimes you want your drink on the…

PopGurls Guide: Creating Holiday Cards

PopGurls Guide: Creating Holiday Cards

Note: I am very aware that me writing this is seriously hypocritical – having not actually constructed or sent out a holiday card in, well, forever. But, you know, I’ve thought about it. And I sort of think that counts.…

How To Know If He’s Really Into You

How To Know If He’s Really Into You

It’s been fairly impossible to avoid that He’s Just Not That Into You book that everyone and her sister has been reading. You know, the one with the guy who consulted on Sex and the City, who’s been hailed as…

How To Survive The Girlie Drink Front

How To Survive The Girlie Drink Front

It’s not as easy as one might think, being a connoisseur of girlie drinks. In the bar scene, especially when most of your friends and acquaintances are the people behind the bar and despise making the drinks, it is sort…

PopGurls Guide to Crafty Holiday Gifts

PopGurls Guide to Crafty Holiday Gifts

I love the holiday season. December makes the homebody in me yearn to be inside, doing crafty projects. Since I’m a grad student living on a tight budget, I’m also on the lookout for cheap, easy-to-execute projects that I can…

How to Survive Your Commute

How to Survive Your Commute

We PopGurls are well-versed in all things commuting. Cars, buses, trains and planes – you name it, we’ve ridden it. (Minds out of the gutter, p eople!) By now we have compiled a list of do’s and don’ts from our…

How to Spot a PopGurl

How to Spot a PopGurl

PopGurlothography: Or How to Spot a PopGurl in 10 Easy Lessons I went to this political thingamajig the other night and hung out with a bunch of new (to me) folks. I was talking with my friend who is a…

How to Be Hot

How to Be Hot

Men, we’re easy to please. We know, we know, you’re thinking “but, they’re such complex, wonderful creatures! How could it possibly be easy to please them?” Well boys, it is easy. Amazingly so. And we’re here to help. Because, really,…

PopGurls Guide to Writing Chick Lit

PopGurls Guide to Writing Chick Lit

Chick Lit. It’s everywhere. It and its hordes of sassy, well-dressed late-20 to early 30-something heroines have taken the world by storm, redefined clichés, and spawned a predictable movie or two. All this while making real life 20/30-somethings feel like…

How to Act Hot

How to Act Hot

Because, sometimes, you miss a step or two on your own. You’ve mastered the look. You’ve been to the tattoo parlor. Yet, somehow, you are not being mobbed by frantic ladies the minute you step out your door. You may…

80s Movie Montages — "You’re The Best!"

80s Movie Montages — "You’re The Best!"

There are times that I wish my life featured a movie montage — usually during some daunting or impossible task. I can picture some amazing, upbeat and inspiring 80’s pop song playing: clips of me doing some sort of work…

Bad Fan Art: A Primer

Bad Fan Art: A Primer

Fan Art. We love it. Can’t get enough of it. Especially the bad stuff. We’re serious. Oh lord, we are so serious. Lately, there hasn’t been nearly enough to quench our bad-fan-art needs. We fear that this dearly beloved art…

PopGurls Guide To Shaking Yo Ass

PopGurls Guide To Shaking Yo Ass

We popgurls are sort of dancing snobs. We’re pretty good at it, see, and we feel that we’re in it for all the right reasons. Which would be: we like to dance because it’s fun and it feels good. Generally…

PopGurls Guide to Holiday Retail Etiquette

PopGurls Guide to Holiday Retail Etiquette

“It’s that time of year when the world falls in love”…and parking is impossible to find at the mall. Although more and more people are doing their shopping online, those of you who can’t quite get your act together in…

PopGurls Guide to Music Festivals

PopGurls Guide to Music Festivals

The summer is winding to a close, which means that not only are people heading back to school, but all of those bands out on the festival circuit are getting off their buses and heading back to the studio. Don’t…

How to: Activity Books!

How to: Activity Books!

Why, you ask? Does it matter, say we? Because they’re fucking fun, and they can turn someone’s frown upside down. And that’s all the reason you should need. But, you say, how can I, lowly PopGurl wanna-be, make a sassy…

PopGurls Guide to Shared Workspace Etiquette

PopGurls Guide to Shared Workspace Etiquette

If you have a career that at all requires you to work in an office building, chances are pretty good that you’ll be required to share many of your spaces with co-workers. For instance, in my current office there is…

PopGurls Guide to Ladies’ Public Restroom Etiquette

PopGurls Guide to Ladies’ Public Restroom Etiquette

Boys, we know this can be a disturbing topic for ya’ll, so feel free to look away. Parts of this may be considered too graphic for your poor, delicate minds. But there are a few things we have to say.…

Leslie Knope is My Life Coach

Leslie Knope is My Life Coach

Mark: Honestly, Leslie, it’s going to be a long uphill battle. You are going to be super-annoyed with all the people who want you to fail. There is a sea of red tape, endless road blocks. So, yeah, I don’t…

Bedazzle, Baby

Bedazzle, Baby

Don’t let anyone tell you different: the Bedazzler – once the provenance of late-night infomercials and junior high mockage – has, of late, become the discerning fashionista’s tool of choice. Or, at least, the discerning fashionista with a bunch of…

PopGurls Guide to Clubs

PopGurls Guide to Clubs

It’s the PopGurls’ club extravaganza! Wherein we bitch about everything you’re doing wrong in your clubs! And you rush to fix it! The four of us spend quite a bit of time in clubs, some more than others. We have…

PopGurls Guide to Meeting F2F

PopGurls Guide to Meeting F2F

This Internet thing seems to be taking a firm hold on society, and we don’t think it’s going away anytime soon. As people get more and more comfortable with the virtual world, or as people search for new ways to…

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