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…