By Noah Beigelmacher — I used to be jealous of my friends who celebrated Christmas. Sure, I had Hanukkah, and I got my presents, but it wasn’t the same. Maybe it’s because more people around me celebrate Christmas than people who celebrate Hanukkah, or maybe it’s because there are always ...

Ever since I became old enough to want to hide things, whether it be from my parents or other prying eyes, I hid things in my underwear drawer. In my youth, I hid mostly drug paraphernalia and pornographic magazines (yes, I grew up in an era when the Internet was ...

I remember growing up watching reruns of the original Star Trek series with my dad. In the middle of all the space exploration, planet saving, alien-babe getting, and space cowboy-ing, it was the gadgets that got my attention the most. Computers that could run entire spaceships, engines that could travel ...

New York City is crowded. I have two roommates, and outside of my home, there are roughly another 8,400,000 people living here. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by people. Whenever I get on the F train to go to or from work, it seems like each and every one of ...

Imagine this . . . a guy walks into a restaurant and immediately he’s chatting with the manager, they hug and share a quick laugh. Shortly after that, the manager tells the hostess where this gentleman’s table is—he doesn’t have a reservation, by the way—and as they walk to his ...

Winter is tailor-made for a breakup. The days are short and they are cold, dark, and all in all, match how you’re probably feeling on the inside. During those cold and dreary days you can easily hide in your apartment, wearing your most comfortable pair of pajamas, eating the most ...

One of the most important things any of us need, in any job, to be able to succeed, is a support circle. Maybe that’s a more dramatic way of saying established friend group at work, but that doesn’t make the claim any less true. Think about it for a moment. ...

I’ll never claim to be a healthy person. My bad habits outweigh my good habits by such a wide margin that sometimes I wonder why I even bother trying to keep any good habits at all. It’s not for a lack of trying. For the most part, I eat (relatively) ...

I have my TV on way more often than I should. When I get home from work I usually turn it on before I even kick off my shoes. When I wake up on the weekend, there’s a good shot I’ve turned on the TV before I even take care ...

It’s Friday morning. As soon as I check my phone, I see a text message that simply says: Session? I say yes. We pick a time. My day is set. I find that more often than not, guys are hesitant to refer to any of their friends as their best ...