Barbie turned 30 the year I was born. That same year, my grandmother bought a dome cake pan for making Barbie cakes: typically, a Barbie doll enveloped to the waist in frosted layers of cake, carved ...

The new "Barbie" movie hadn't even come out, and yet I'd already been invited to three Barbie themed pool parties. Ever since the plastic doll became this summer's "It girl" it seems everyone these ...