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Valentine's Day

Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is about women's rights: It may be a lame Hallmark holiday, but Feb. 14 is still a time when the fissures in gender relations get exposed in uncomfortable ways.; Carol Lloyd Feb 14, 2008
Of Valentine's jinxes and packaged gnocchi: Ever since I dumped my eighth-grade boyfriend, I've been single on Feb. 14. I also couldn't make homemade pasta. Turns out, these things are related.; By Rebecca Traister Feb 14, 2008
Ask Pablo: Should I buy flowers for Valentine's Day? Don't they bring environmental woe?; By Pablo Päster Feb 11, 2008
STD e-cards, sex beats romance and more: V-day greeting: "I got screwed while screwing, you might have too."; Catherine Price and Tracy Clark-Flory Feb 14, 2007
Does Hallmark make virginity valentines?: Thai teens seem intent on losing their virginity on the 14th.; Catherine Price Feb 13, 2007
Celebrate Valentine's Day with a "Certificate of Inequality"!: On Feb. 14, same-sex couples make their love official -- just not with a marriage license.; Katharine Mieszkowski Feb 12, 2007
Marching for "bread and roses" on Valentine's Day: 400 Zimbabwean women -- several with infants -- are arrested during a protest.; Katharine Mieszkowski Feb 14, 2006
Happy Valentine's Day ... boss!: In Japan, everyone's least favorite Hallmark holiday gets a corporate twist.; Page Rockwell Feb 14, 2006
Ghost world: David Levithan's tale of a boy haunted by the memory of his girlfriend is the perfect Valentine's gift for your Goth preteen.; By Sarah Karnasiewicz Feb 14, 2006
No s-e-x on Valentine's Day: Decreeing a "Day of Purity," the right wants kids to celebrate not having sex on Feb. 14.; Katharine Mieszkowski Feb 3, 2006
Material boys: More men are buying jewelry, spurring new lines in the industry.; Sarah Goldstein Feb 2, 2006
The tyranny of Valentine's Day: Forget compulsory, greeting-card romance. This year write your own love story.; By Charles Taylor Feb 14, 2003
Loving a ghost: I believed that if I could get through the trifecta of holidays after Sept. 11 without Eddie, I could get to the finish line of my grief. But I'd forgotten about Valentine's Day.; By A.R. Torres Feb 14, 2002
L'amour brings spelunker out of cave: Valentine's Day lures him from the darkness.; By J.A. Getzlaff Feb 24, 2000
How do fools fall in love?: Give a Dane a Valentine and wait for an Easter egg -- Valentine's Day traditions from around the globe.; By Hank Hyena Feb 14, 2000
Dear Jon; Love, Jon: In which a young Romeo pens verses of true love -- to himself.; By Jonathan Poletti Feb 14, 2000
In the Buffy: Has Sarah Michelle Gellar become a vamp naysayer? Would a flying rock by any other name smell like perfume? In a world full of uncertainty, one thing's for sure ... three hours of Roberto Benigni at the Oscars are three hours too many.; By Amy Reiter Feb 14, 2000
Placebo love: Valentine's Day is as romantic as a trip to the pharmacy.; By Jonathon Keats Feb 12, 2000
We won't get boobed again!: Let's See Action! Who fans boo Cindy Margolis; Gwyneth banishes statuette; and -- horrors! -- the man behind the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync forms another Frankenband!; By Amy Reiter Feb 10, 2000
The frog prince of Bel-Air: Batgirl caught in amphibian love nest! Plus: I cc NY? Carl Swanson e-goofs, Toby Young attacks. And: Hillary is just so dateable.com!; By Amy Reiter Jan 28, 2000
Dr. Block's little house of sexual horrors: A grotesque L.A. event proves that when it comes to being unsexy, it's really hard to beat sex.; By Carol Lloyd Feb 18, 1999
The Awful Truth: Happy Valentine's Day. Now shut up and dig your trench.; By Cintra Wilson Feb 10, 1996

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