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Reefer madness is the new black! Marie Claire exposes what they call "stilleto stoners" in their latest issue. Yes, even the well-heeled like to puff on a little pot after a stressful day in this rough n' tumble town. Take 29-year-old corporate attorney "Jennifer" for instance, she's been running around for 12 hours in her Marc Jacobs pumps and at the end of the day "reaches for a plastic orange prescription bottle alongside a glass pipe and blue Bic lighter, just as the cleaning lady left them. She twists off the cap, pinches off a piece of the fragrant green bud inside, gingerly places it in the bowl of the pipe, and lights up. Over the next 30 minutes, she takes three deep drags, enough to drown out the noise whirring in her head." Soon enough she'll be popping pills to drown out the paranoid voices!

The most powerful suggestions in this week's NY Times Weddings & Celebrations? If you write about dating or a hapless love life, all is not lost! Actually, we got that idea from Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City, too, but not everyone can end up with Mr. Big or marry a hunky principal dancer at the NY City Ballet. Anyway...

Twenty-nine-year-old playwright and actress Courtney McLean has done her share of day jobs: as a former wedding and party DJ, she DJed an afterparty for N'Sync at the San Diego Sports Arena, and her brushes with celebrity include discussing bikini waxes with Jessica Biel. After studying theater at UC San Diego, the California native headed to New York five years ago, and currently waitresses at Penelope, among other gigs. But her true love is theater, especially alternative theater, where last year she performed her first solo show "Normal-C," which you can catch highlights of on YouTube.

Fashion writer Adena Halpern made a name for herself with her "Haute Life" column in Marie Claire and decided to turn her love for clothing into a memoir, She takes readers through her various wardrobes choices, from the unfortunate to the invaluable, weaving her jobs and relationships into the fabric of her tales, including the title garments, which each play a major role. In chapters such as "The Devil Wore Treetorns" and "Girdles, Corsets, and Other Ways of Killing Yourself," Halpern probes the meaning of clothes and the power individual items have to make or break one's day-or relationship. She takes readers with her on her shopping and dating endeavors, from bargain hunting for a living to getting her fake Prada tote stolen, dating a "Democrat in Republican's clothing" and lusting after "The Beautiful Boy in the 8-Ball Jacket," emulating (and even encountering) Madonna, often joined by her gang of girlfriends, "the six women you meet in Los Angeles." Rather than a rundown of endless outfit changes, hers is a fun account of just how far one woman will go for the perfect pair of underwear.

Meghan Cleary, shoe expert, author, The Perfect Fit

Apparently lad magazines are being shipped to the soldiers in the Middle East. So our boys will get their fill of Maxim and Stuff and the crap it holds. Sports Illustrated is also sending magazines. Ladies already got facial products and magazines from Marie Claire, fret not.