Blog Posts by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

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In the early '90s, everyone had a joke about the "Long Island Lolita." The tale of the promiscuous, troubled teenager who shot her lover's wife in broad daylight fueled late night monologues, "Saturday Night Live" skits, and endless tabloid alliterations.

As a kid I remember lighthearted debates over who made the better Amy Fisher: Alyssa Milano or Drew Barrymore, both cast as stars of the made-for-TV movies. The pronunciation of 'Buttafuoco' seemed to keep adults in stitches, as did impressions of a facially-paralyzed Mary Jo.

Looking back on the 20-year anniversary of Fisher's sentencing, the story is not the joke or sensation I remembered it once to be. It's a sad story about a troubled kid, a cheating husband, an era of demented tabloid journalism, and a woman who survived it all.

At 57, Mary Jo Buttafuoco is both prepared and reluctant to talk about the case. In an email this week to Yahoo! Shine, she offered only a nutshell description of all that happened, perhaps

Sophia Loren at 78.(Venturelli/Wire Image/Getty)This is what 78 looks like...if you're Sophia Loren. The iconic Italian actress put models 50 years younger to shame when she arrived at the launch of Pirelli's annual calendar on Tuesday night in Rio de Janeiro.

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Dressed in a low-cut sparkling, crystal-white gown that hugged her waistline, and boldly displayed her famously age-defying curves, she proved that beauty isn't wasted on the young.

Joined by models in their '20s like Karlie Kloss and Isabeli Fontana, the 78-year-old, held court at the event celebrating 40 years of the iconic publication.

The Pirelli calendar, sponsored by the Italian tire company, is an annual flipbook of some of the world's most stunning women. For the past 40 years it has featured everyone from Heidi Klum to Kate Moss posing in the outfits they were born to wear--that is to say practically nothing.

Sophia Loren's purse sold for staggering six figures.

In 2007, at the age of 72, Loren was one

(Photo courtesy of Starbucks)Not long ago, $7 was the price of a hearty lunch. Now it's the price of a cup of coffee. Not just any coffee, but a Grande-sized cup of Starbucks' new Costa Rica Finca Palmilera.

The rare beans are part of the chain's "reserve" line and the most expensive black coffee served up in Starbucks' history. (A typical Starbucks latte costs around $4)

Here we stand on a fiscal cliff, drinking $7 coffees. Is there any way to explain it?

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"[The] price is based on rarity, demand, and green coffee prices," a Starbucks spokesperson told Yahoo! Shine. "This coffee is not widely available, so, like an opportunity to try a wine where there is limited production, demand is high."

For coffee snobs the price point can be justified with one word: Geisha.

Geisha is a rare varietal of coffee beans, grown in parts of Central America, coveted for its delicate fruity aroma. Because only a small amount of farms produce the red-berry-colored

After offending Canada with the snap of an overall, Justin Bieber has some explaining to do. Why would someone old enough to vote wear Osh Kosh in the presence world leader? And why not just snap both suspenders instead of one? These are the questions coming from fans, haters, and possibly, the Prime Minister of Canada, after this weekend's wardrobe malfunction. As long as everyone's going there, we've got some questions too. For starters, who on earth is dressing Justin Bieber and why do they want to destroy him?

The Clark brothers (courtesy of Channel4)Yahoo! editors have selected this article as a favorite of 2012. It first ran on Shine on Nov 26 and was one of the most popular stories of the year. 4,407 people commented on the story, expressing heartfelt sympathy for the family and paying tribute to the Clarks'  love for their sons.

By the looks of their home, Tony and Christine Clark are raising two rambunctious 7-year-old boys. Model train tracks and Monopoly pieces are scattered on tables and cartoons flicker on the TV set.

But the Clarks' two sons are grown men who share only the same interests and emotional fluctuations of little boys. Like the character portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 2008 film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons," Matthew, 39, and Michael, 42, are aging backwards.

Diagnosed with a terminal form of leukodystrophy, one of a group of extremely rare genetic disorders that attack the Myelin, or white matter, in the nervous system, spinal cord, and brain. In the Clarks' case, the condition has not only

(Courtesy of V Magazine)She's been called the "Human Barbie" by websites and magazines the world over, and Valeria Lukyanova, the Russian model who appears to be shaped by Mattel, has done her darnedest to live up to the name--possibly manipulating the public in the process. 

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Lukyanova, a YouTube sensation whose videos have been viewed more than 4 million times, claims that her doll-like "perfect" face and figure are the result of regular ol' genetics and some makeup, that she's been "endowed by nature with extraordinary external data." But--according to plastic surgery experts and websites debunking Lukyanova's look as nowhere close to real--nature isn't that mysterious.

"This girl is a fraud," writes an anonymous user on the website, TheDirty.com. "She had been badly Photoshopping her photos since the beginning of her time online."

The unverified claim goes on to compare Lukyanova's YouTube videos with her recent photo shoot for V Magazine. In the photo shoot she looks more

Thanksgiving is a high school reunion for relatives. Everyone gathers together to reflect on where they've been, how far they've come, and how much better or worse they're doing than before.

It's a Butterball of nerves, particularly when you factor in Thanksgiving other high-stakes ingredients: the doomsday traffic, the one crazy relative who shows up and does his/her crazy thing, the underlying family feuds, the love, the all-day drinking, the hunger--the extreme hunger!--for the perpetually "almost-ready" turkey, and those ghosts of holidays past. The result is a minefield of emotions and the reason family baggage has become such a cliché.

We've all got it, and we bring it to the table on Thanksgiving. All it takes is a seemingly innocuous question to snap that luggage right open and turn dinner into a Eugene O'Neill play. To bypass such family drama, avoid asking the following questions, or answering them.   

Don't ask: "What happened with that guy you brought last year?"

Kevin Hines returns to the Golden Gate Bridge. (Robert Durell/TPNKevin Hines was 19 when he decided to take his own life. That morning, he told his father he was heading to school and instead took a local bus to the Golden Gate Bridge. At around 10 a.m., he catapulted over the railing and jumped.

"I don't believe anyone wants to die by suicide. What really happens is you come to a point in your mental instability where you feel you have no more options," Kevin tells Yahoo! Shine. "When I was on the bridge I was crying desperately and wanted to survive, but the voices in my head telling me to jump became louder. I firmly believe there is a big difference between wanting to die and needing to get rid of pain."

Kevin, now 32, is one of an estimated 33 survivors of suicide attempts on the Golden Gate Bridge. Now a prevention specialist and metal health advocate, he believes there's more to teen suicide prevention than just bullying awareness.

"There is no direct correlation between bullying and suicide," says Hines. "There are only people