Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s
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Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s
From 1988-1994, Sassy was the coolest magazine going for Gen-X teens. Celebrate that golden time by joining Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole for a deep dive into every one of its 80 glorious issues and remember what it was like hanging out with Jane, Christina, Catherine, Karen, and the w...
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May 1991 Slumber Party: Bores, The Doors & Body Horrors
Sassy's May 1991 quiz dares you to determine whether you're a big fat bore...but it could be that this is a more stressful prospect for a teenager tha...
May 1991 Fashion Etc.: Outside, Blue & Tutti-Frutti On Your Face
School's about to end for summer, and Sassy is ready. It's got plaids for the bocce court. It's got swimsuits for...swimming. It's got tips for changi...
May 1991 Pop Culture: John Leguizamo, Balthazar Getty & The Whistle That Only Dogs Hear
Pam is on assignment, but Dave and Tara are bravely carrying on without her. What Now brings us such items as the first news blurb Tara probably ever...
May 1991 Teen Life: AIDS, Invisibility & Galactorrhea
It's May 1991, and Sassy knows exactly what your mom wants most for Mother's Day: you following her around the house quoting statistics about how bad...
April 1991 Slumber Party: Landlines, Rompers & Wild Yam Cream
With Pam out handling a family emergency (everything's okay now!), Dave and Tara bravely handle the Slumber Party on their own. After sharing their re...
April 1991 Fashion Etc.: Tights, Sun-In & Bloomers, Again?!
It's spring...but summer is just around the corner. Start dressing for summer in holiday-ready gingham and all white eyelet everything! We get a momen...
April 1991 Pop Culture: Susanna Hoffs, A Baby In A Basket (?) & Musicians Perving On Underage Girls
Whose voice is described in this month's Listen Up as "vomity"? It's sure not Sting because Catherine CANNOT be objective about him. It's also not Deb...
April 1991 Teen Life: Sneezes, Horses & A Saggy Old Mom
The April 1991 issue lulls you into a false sense of complacency by burying its biggest bummer feature in the middle of the island, but then there it...
March 1991 Slumber Party: Technology, Cuticles & Calls About Calls
Are you a techno head? In 1991, that meant "Do you know how a computer works?" but also possibly "Can you drive stick?" This quiz is trouble and we've...
March 1991 Fashion Etc.: Prom, Rompers & Cuticles
It's March, and that means it's time to start morbidly obsessing on prom, up to and including having a dress rehearsal five days out. All the frippery...
March 1991 Pop Culture: Hair, Gossip & The Replacements
Pam came to the taping with less than one hour to spare before she had to leave to see a movie, so we had NO time to waste getting through this episod...
March 1991 Teen Life: Men, Bread & Trains
Sassy launched with the March 1988 issue and here we are in 1991, watching our friend turn 3! And if we were reading the issue in order, this would pr...
February 1991 Slumber Party: Highlights, Woody's & Dinks
The February 1991 quiz -- How Good Are You In A Pinch? -- has us all doing a little introspection and a lot of complaining about the "d" options that...
February 1991 Fashion Etc.: Flowers, Hearts & The Candyman
Pam is still out on assignment, so it's just Dave and Tara this week to talk about all the style contained in the February 1991 issue. Dress in floral...
February 1991 Pop Culture: Spam, Zines & The Worst Way To Learn A Dance
Our very special guest Daniel Blau Rogge is back for another episode that really runs the gamut: from Evan Dando to Roky Erickson; from Edward Scissor...
February 1991 Teen Life: Hunting, Warfare & Print Design That Gives You A Migraine
Pam is out on assignment, so we lined up a wonderful substitute third chair who was, in fact, also a teenager in the 90s: Daniel Blau Rogge! This turn...
January 1991 Slumber Party: Waste, Self-Esteem & The Dox Ox
We skipped a Slumber Party for the December 1990 issue, so this time we've got two quizzes to take. How wasteful are we, and how high is our self-este...
January 1991 Fashion Etc.: Pastels, Jean Jackets & Apple Cider Vinegar
To kick off the new year, Sassy wants you to wear pastels, catalog fashions, jean jackets, white t-shirts, and an alice band you made yourself. It als...
January 1991 Pop Culture: Hats, Mermaids & Johnsons
How many offspring can cockroaches produce? Why should you keep sending postcards? Why were weird hats having a moment in 1991? Believe it or not, the...
Special: Three Types Of Cookies
The tale of "Eat Through Austin," the domestic follow-up vacation to Dave, Pam and Tara's trip to the Big Island of Hawai'i as told on the old podcast...
Special: Tandoori Lady
Back in 2009 Tara, Pam and Dave went to the Big Island of Hawai'i. It was a time. We recorded an episode of the Overwhelming Positivity podcast while...
January 1991 Teen Life: Depression, Douching & The New Sassiest Girls In America
It's a new year in the Sassy timeline, and you know what that means: time to crown a new Sassiest Girl In America! The latest crop of hopefuls descend...
December 1990 Fashion Etc.: Denim, Body Image & The World's First Bath Puffs
Some of the readers in charge of fashion freak it, like stylist Daisy von Furth's fun and quirky denim looks. Others, like Shelly Franklin, went to a...
December 1990 Pop Culture: Judas Priest, Darkman & Gnards
Our second episode on Sassy's first reader-produced issue covers its pop culture topics. Whose mom surprisingly liked Das Damen? Is "gnard" going to c...
December 1990 Teen Life: Protests, Fruit & Cocaine
The staff at Sassy had impeccable instincts for building its community -- and in the days when doing so required going to the post office to put actua...
November 1990 Slumber Party: Spacing Out, Chasing Boys & Counting Tampons
How spacy are we? According to Sassy's November 1990 quiz, the answer is "possibly a lot spacier than some of us would care to admit" or "just about a...
November 1990 Fashion Etc.: Hair School, A Witch & Brown Squats
The weather's getting chillier, and the fashion (etc.) of the November 1990 knows it. Hence a whole story about brown coats, and a spread to help you...
November 1990 Pop Culture: Deee-Lite, Kim Gordon & Dinky Bossetti
Did Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry approach their "Well, Did You Evah?" cover for Red Hot + Blue with the appropriate level of professionalism? Which downt...
November 1990 Teen Life: Dates, Vegetarians & Sleep
Let's all open up a new issue together! Yes, the first feature is a dispiriting profile of Bill, who only recently left foster care to reunite with hi...
October 1990 Slumber Party: Sisters, Paint & Driver's Ed
After skipping the September 1990 Slumber Party, we're resuming with our results from the October 1990 quiz -- What Kind Of Sister Are You? -- then la...
October 1990 Fashion Etc.: Twin Peaks, Muscles & Be Fri Necklaces
This month's fashion stories run the gamut more than most issues. Do you want to dress like everyone on Twin Peaks? It's 1990 -- of course you do, and...
October 1990 Pop Culture: Christian Slater, Whit Stillman & Woofs
Who has tattoos? What snack does Iggy Pop most resemble? How seriously do we need to take Perry Farrell's 1990 First Amendment statement? What's wrong...
October 1990 Teen Life: Driving Lessons, Alcoholism & Croutons
More so than usual, the Teen Life topics of the October 1990 issue are here to help you figure out your life. What might a wise older person tell you...
September 1990 Fashion Etc.: Shoes, Lubriderm & Even More Dutch Boy
Shop like a model; dress like an elf!
September 1990 Pop Culture: Movie Sequels, James Marshall & The Hothouse Flowers
There's a lot of pop culture in the September 1990 issue that will need revision sooner or later. Like: a report on the cancellation of 21 Jump Street...
September 1990 Teen Life: Tricking Boys, Puppy Mills & Painting
The first thing you need to know about this episode is that there was an issue with one of the tracks. It doesn't matter who did what: the result is t...
August 1990 Slumber Party: MTV, Extra Balls & East Side Mario’s
The two of us who grew up without MTV do our best on the August 1990 quiz, Rate Your MTV-ness! (That "best" is...bad.) Then it's on to your latest cal...
August 1990 Fashion Etc.: Boats, Socks & Diets
It's nearly time to go back to school, and Sassy has your wardrobe inspiration. Retro nerd? Cute jock? Merchant marine? It's all possible if you run w...
August 1990 Pop Culture: Michael Rank, Michael Rank & Michael Rank
Considering that Pam has not seen a single one of the five movies reviewed in the August 1990 Watch It, we find an awful lot to say about them. But th...
August 1990 Teen Life: Eastern Europe, Wet Pastrami & Mr. Sperm
Time for a new issue! Catherine kicks things off with a dark reporting trip to several locations that were, until quite recently, in the Soviet Union....