Laura Donovan

I recently got into a public spat with a male Skyride employee on the corner of 33rd and Fifth Avenue, and it wasn't because he was trying to get me to visit the Empire State Building on my way to work. He called me a "sexy sexpot" (good one...) in…

When I first heard that Netflix would be releasing a few series this year, I was skeptical of the results. It didn't help that I wasn't crazy about season four of Arrested Development or House of Cards (dog killing in the first five minutes? I don't…

The Glee co-stars were so in love. A day following the announcement of Glee actor Cory Monteith's sudden death, girlfriend and castmate Lea Michele issued a statement through her publicist on the unspeakable tragedy: "We ask that everyone kindly…

As a longtime Glee fan, I still haven't totally accepted that star Cory Monteith passed away over the weekend. The 31-year-old was taken before his time and had so much ahead: a life with his beautiful and adoring girlfriend, a solid career in the…

It's with a heavy heart that I share that Glee star Cory Monteith was found dead at Vancouer's Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel Saturday. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 31-year-old was discovered at noon on the 21st floor. No cause of death has…

In sixth grade, I broke into my parents' bathroom and raided their cabinets for a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. Disgusted with my stringy red hair, which you can imagine made me so popular at school, I wanted to become a blond as quickly as possible,…

There are tons of movies out right now, but the only one I'm dying to see is The Way, Way Back, which follows a 14-year-old boy's summer vacation with his mom and her obnoxious boyfriend. The trailer brings me back to my own early teen days of…

During the summer before my first year of college, I read Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, which was destroyed by many critics and readers for its "supremely unlikable" main character Lee, an unpopular teen who struggles to find her place at boarding…

I came to a major conclusion the other day. As much as I dislike the cold months of October through March, I'm starting to realize I prefer winter to summer, at least while I live in NYC. Because warm weather is so short-lived here, it brings a ton…

In three weeks, I'll be a quarter century old. A lot of pressure comes with this milestone, and while I'm nowhere near the place my own mom was in at 25 (married for three years with her first child), I'm happy with the way I've carried myself…

Don't lie. You've seen Good Burger and you liked everything about it, even its wildly stupid jokes ("there is no way a guy can watch his own butt!," "I'm grape nose boy!"), many of which belonged to Kel Mitchell, who portrayed dim-witted but sweet…

I'm not at NYC's Pride Parade today, but unstoppable PolicyMic intern Uchechi Kalu showed up for the big celebration and spotted none other than controversial New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. The former Congressman, who is apparently…

The past week has been crazy, to say the least, and with SCOTUS' ruling on DOMA, Sunday is the perfect day to hold a Gay Pride Parade. If you're in the NYC area right now, it's not too late to catch the Gay Pride March, which began at 11 a.m. and…

My childhood best friends and I have a shameful secret, and I worry the only way to redeem ourselves is by exposing it to the world and being held accountable for our behavior as such. Though accomplished and happy with what we've become, we spend a…

College was one of the easiest times of my life. Sure I struggled with academics and pseudo adult growing pains at times, but all the benefits of going away to school made up for the dull, lengthy study sessions and dread of mid-terms that hit every…

In some ways, HBO's Girls reminds me of the bullied student trope. No matter what it does or direction it takes, everyone picks apart and attacks Lena Dunham's seriously entertaining and intriguing series, and one of the many things season two was…

I'm late to the game. Embarrassingly late. When Mad Men first aired, I was a 19-year-old college sophomore, and now I'm a month away from turning 25. Don Draper would never say "better late than never" (even though he's been anything but…

One of the things I love about Twitter is that it fosters community. I've taken to Twitter during sleepless nights, personal crises, work, and even E.R. visits. It can lead you to believe you have a strong support system when you're totally alone…

Like pretty much everyone, I was not a beauty at age 12. I know now that this is totally normal, but at the time, I was surrounded by classmates with boyfriends and girlfriends, and there was no way I could ever be like any them unless I landed an…