90s nostalgia

Jessica Smith is cherishing her latest role as mom, but also made an entire generation of millennials extremely aware of their age.
The documentary “Call Me Miss Cleo” aims to contend with the TV shaman’s presumed unfair legacy. But it’s more complicated than the film presents.
Director Kathryn Ferguson re-centers the singer-songwriter as the icon she rightly is. But that comes with limitations.
The Social Security Administration's data shows what parents were naming their newborns a quarter-century ago.
The ‘Stay (I Missed You)’ artist reflects on pushing against a culture where female singer-songwriters were expected to fit a certain mold to make it big.
Experts share how to get that sleek, symmetrically skinny brow — and how to fake it until you’re ready to take the plunge.
After school, I would skip past my usual Nickelodeon cartoons and turn to the coolest channel I knew: MTV.
Brands like Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle reliably paired the term with images of young, slender white people who liked to have fun.
From "Waiting to Exhale" to "Clueless," the decade brought us consistently popular albums associated with movies. And then that stopped.
Respectability politics and white America helped sideline some of the most insightful humor of the '90s — when we needed it the most.