Garin Pirnia

Garin Pirnia

Garin, a name that according to Garin's mom means "high priestess of the written word," is a freelance arts and culture writer. Some of her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The Wall Street Journal. Currently, she owns only one cat but dreams of the day when she can live on a ranch in Colorado with 50 more cats.

Be prepared to bring your own.

Hotels readily give guests soap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and even sewing kits. But why don’t we get tubes of toothpaste when we check into a room? The answer is kind of complicated.

Garin Pirnia
Melissa Gilbert stars in Little House on the Prairie.

'Little House on the Prairie' was television at its most wholesome, but that doesn't mean that everything that went down behind-the-scenes was PG-rated. Now, Netflix is rebooting the series.

Kara Kovalchik, Garin Pirnia
Nobody puts Nomi in a corner.

“Showgirls” was one of the biggest box-office bombs of the 1990s, but this 1995 erotic drama about an exotic dancer turned Vegas showgirl has since become the stuff of midnight movie gold.

Garin Pirnia
The real-life 'Amityville Horror' house looks a little different these days.

Learn more about the supernatural incidents that inspired haunted house movies like ‘The Amityville Horror’ and ‘The Conjuring,’ and discover the truth behind the scares.

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