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Even though winter’s bitter chill is still sending shivers down our spines, the bright colors gracing the runways and radiating from merchandise en route to stores in truckloads will be more than enough to de-thaw us all.

Girls, be prepared to put on your big girl panties and the best shade of lipstick you own, because this season is all about being bold!

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It was the year of the new artist: music fans and radio programmers welcomed more first-time hit makers to the mainstream scene in 2012 than in any other year in recent memory. Unsurprisingly, the 55th annual crop of Grammy hopefuls is strongly indicative of the public's "in-with-the-new" attitude.

On January 15, 2013, New York Governor Cuomo and the New York legislature passed into action the “toughest gun restrictions” in the nation, the first of its kind since the Newtown, Conn. and Webster, NY shootings. With this bill, naturally, comes opposition.

The Breakfast Club is a celebrated classic, one that recounts a gloomy Saturday in detention shared by “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” These are the exact words the brain himself writes and leaves behind once their fateful Saturday detention comes to a close.