Lilli Petersen

Am I the girl you thought I was, professor? With news of Legally Blonde 3 in the works, we're all fascinated by what Elle Woods might be doing in this, the second decade of the 21st century. And while I feel I can be reasonably sure that her whole office on Capitol Hill is decorated in tasteful shades of millennial pink, I've also been speculating on what one of my other favorite characters might be up to in Legally Blonde 3: namely, Professor Stromwell, the hard-ass Harvard Law professor.

Meet Alex Goncharuk, 25 — otherwise known as Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid in the latest Disney On Ice production, Mickey's Search Party.

If you're among the many (many) of us who spends at least 30 percent of our workdays watching animals be cute, then you definitely know about Doug the Pug, the Nashville-based social media superstar with more than 3 million followers on Instagram alone.

While the mermaids have been at Weeki Wachee for seven decades, Kourtney Ellinghuysen has only been a Weeki Wachee mermaid for about two years. The 21-year-old has been part of the Weeki Wachee team, working full-time as a mermaid, since the summer of 2016. And it's been two years of pure magic, by the looks of things.

There’s one thing that I’m not so excited to see, and I’m not talking about the long-running accusations of Stockholm Syndrome. No—I’m talking, of course, about the fact that Belle is Not Like Other Girls. (Did your eye just twitch when you read that? It makes my fingernails hurt to think about, too.)

What do you usually put in your coffee in the morning? Cream? Sugar? A shot of antibiotic cleaner?Maybe we should start considering that last one. A new study released on Monday found that the leftover coffee caught in the drip tray of a coffee machine — specifically the high-end Nespresso machine — is a great breeding ground for a certain kind of bacteria. The study, published in the open-access scientific journal Scientific Reports, found between 35 and 67 different types of bacteria hanging o