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The article examines how Generation Z has emerged as the leading demographic driving rental demand in the U.S., following a peak in millennial renters and increasing homeownership rates among them, while also noting that the aging baby boomer generation is contributing to long-term rental demand.

The article explores how Gen X parents are embracing TikTok challenges, particularly the #momdancechallenge, by dancing to '80s tunes, fostering intergenerational positivity and nostalgia while challenging ageist stereotypes.

The article focuses on assessing Taylor Swift's place in the pop music pantheon compared to icons like the Beatles, Madonna, and Bruce Springsteen; topics include reader comments on her musical impact, business acumen, and widespread popularity.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2024 includes Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Frampton, Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews Band, Kool & the Gang, Foreigner, and A Tribe Called Quest, reflecting diversity and spanning generations.

The article focuses on the launch party for the book "Winona," featuring Polaroids and cellphone shots of Winona Ryder, taken by photographer Robert Rich, providing fans with a rare glimpse into the private life of the iconic Gen X cultural idol.

The article reports that ABC has introduced a prime-time "50th Anniversary Singalong" to connect with the nostalgia for "Schoolhouse Rock." It will feature Black Eyed Peas, the Muppets, Shaquile O'Neal, among others to use words, phrases and clauses of the favorite songs. Facts and figures made the television show educational. In the first season, "Multiplication Rock," was written by jazz composer Bob Dorough which adopts sly and funny lyrics.

The article focuses on the challenges collectors face in passing down their collectibles, including comic books, rare cards, and other memorabilia, to their families and ensuring responsible stewardship beyond their lifetimes.

The article presents insights from fans of the Dave Matthews Band (DMB) about their experiences and feelings related to the band's performances.

The article highlights how Generation X has been taking over corporate leadership roles, bringing in new rules and embracing flexibility in the workplace, challenging the traditional norms set by previous generations.

The article discusses the growing use of 'whisper listings' in the real estate market, where properties are not publicly listed for strategic reasons, allowing sellers to remain private and test the market discreetly, although it may lead to fewer bids and less information for buyers.

The article focuses on Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis's efforts to appeal to older voters and make inroads with them as he prepares for a potential presidential campaign in 2024.

The article discusses that according to a Pew analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, Gen Xers were a majority of the U.S. workforce for only a few years which ended in 2016, and the Gen Xers are ambivalently, fleetingly, and with dubious authority.

The article discusses how marketers targeted condominium sales to people considered to be part of Generation X by appealing to the groups' need for social interaction and social networking. The article focuses on the Metrome in San Diego, California as an example of what living in such a building is like.

The article reviews the exhibition "An Accelerated Culture" at the New York gallery Friedman Benda, New York from May 3 to June 8, 2019.

The article reports that a study based on national survey data from 1977 to 2016 has revealed that belief in gender equality has grown in the U.S. in over four decades. Topics covered include the finding that roughly a quarter of respondents believe that women should do more homemaking and child-rearing, people who are most likely to believe in gender equality regardless of setting, and differences in gender role attitudes among baby boomers and Generation X.

The author argues against the uncertainties of Generation X voters in terms of supporting their U.S. Presidential candidates in the 2016 election. The author discusses the need to end the linguistic hedging in universities, the growing political polarization and diveristy of college students, and the critical role of emotions in the human reasoning, based on the theories from ancient philosophers Confucius and Greek Stoics.

The article focuses on sharing stories of activism by Generation X such as citing voter turnout by Amy of voting only once; explaining feminism by Megan as choices for women to be lawyers or housewives; and buying and foreclosed three homes in his 30s by Brett to explain economy in the U.S.

The article looks at the valley town of Ojai, California and its increased popularity as a destination for visitors and those looking to relocate, especially younger people considered part of Generations X or Y. Noted individuals with connections to the town include actress Emily Blunt, model Bianca Roe, and interior designer Paul Fortune.

In this article the author discusses the habit in the motion of picture industry of basing films on animated and live action television shows. The generally poor success of such endeavors is noted. The author speculates that motion picture screen writers of the baby boom and generation X eras create these films as an exercise in nostalgia.

The article offers the author's insights on the status of the U.S. economy and mentions topics including the International Monetary Fund, recession, and Generation X.

The article presents the author view on the role of the boom generation towards the history of economics and war in the U.S. He mentions that boom generation people has exposed to cultural and political battles in the nation. He notes on the differences between the generation X people with the boom generation which has less focused on idealism. He also emphasizes on the early boomers awareness of the dangers of sexual intercourse.

The article reports on the active involvement of Generation X and Generation Y to investing in terms of their personal finances.

The article focuses on Jonathan Adler, a potter, designer and adopter of midcentury designs. It says that Adler has studied ceramics at Rhode Island School of Design and semiotics at Brown University. It adds that a chandelier that hung above the dining table of his house in Bridgeton, New Jersey has guided him right from the day he was born until he become obsessed with producing midcentury designs.

EVERY generation gets the rock documentary it deserves. As he followed the young Bob Dylan in 1965, D. A. Pennebaker captured a singer-songwriter in transition from boyish folkie to wary, druggy and dandified rebel in ''Don't Look Back.'' Martin Scorsese's ''Last Waltz'' found the Band, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell and Mr. Dylan under the influence of money and the effects of a long '60s hangover. The '80s brought Penelope Spheeris's ''Decline of Western Civilization Part Two: The Metal Years,'' a sort of real-life ''Spinal Tap.'' With the long-delayed DVD release this month of David Markey's Sonic Youth tour documentary, ''1991: The Year Punk Broke,'' Generation X, characteristically tardy, finally gets its shot. As the Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo put it, ''It's kind of outlining the birth of Lollapalooza Nation before it happened.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A COUPLE of months ago, Susan Gregory Thomas, a writer in Brooklyn, was at a friend's 40th birthday party when she was approached by a woman familiar to her ''from the whole Park Slope mommy culture.'' ''So you're Susie Thomas,'' the woman practically shrieked upon introduction. ''You're famous.'' Taken aback, Ms. Thomas asked what she meant. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To the Editor: Re ''Boomers Hit Another Milestone of Self-Absorption: Turning 65'' (front page, Jan. 1): [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trying to pin down the character of a generation is a controversial and, some say, presumptuous exercise. Who's to say whether 50 million Americans should be called the Me Generation, or the Greatest? Who's to decide exactly when Gen X ends and Gen Y begins? Never let it be said that psychological researchers duck a challenge. In recent years some have sketched a portrait of the current crop of twenty- and thirty-somethings that is low on greatness and high on traits like entitlement and narcissism. The Millennials, also known as Generation Y, may be a little callous, too: At a psychology conference in May, researchers presented data suggesting that college students today had significantly less ''empathetic concern'' than students of the 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FED up with the Me-Me-Me MySpace generation? Inclined to believe today's young 'uns are blindingly self-aggrandizing and entitled? According to a major new study of college students, you may well be right. Vindication for crotchety Gen-Xers -- already depressed to find themselves the elders in this social relationship -- arrived in a paper presented in May at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston. ''Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis,'' by Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan, found that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than those of 30 years ago, with the numbers plunging primarily after 2000. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HOOKING up has been held responsible for a number of interpersonal woes, from the proliferation of sexually transmitted diseases to the withering of courtship and the death of true love. Now, according to a round of tsking headlines, hook-ups and their Gen X cousin, ''friends with benefits,'' have been associated with another risk: overlapping lovers or, in academic parlance, ''concurrent partners.'' A new University of Iowa study, ''The Contexts of Sexual Involvement and Concurrent Sexual Partnerships,'' (yes, there is now a body of research dedicated to the hook-up and its discontents) found that compared with those in serious relationships, people hooking up with a stranger or acquaintance and lovers in ''friends with benefits'' arrangements are much more likely to sleep around simultaneously, spreading potential discord and S.T.D.'s. ''The goal was to establish the basic association between different kinds of sexual relationships and concurrency,'' says Anthony Paik, an assistant professor of sociology, whose results were published in the March issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I'M a runt of Generation X, which means 1) I'm supposed to define myself entirely through ironic references to pop culture, and 2) as a member of the last generation to come of age in an era of only three TV networks, I assume everyone will understand when I drop a quote from ''Scooby-Doo'' or ''The A-Team.'' But the generation immediately after mine has never known life without cable, and the generation after that won't know a life without streaming video. Having only three TV channels to watch must sound as quaint to them as radio plays do to me. Today's entertainment universe provides endless variety for every demographic and taste, and the things that everyone actually wants to watch together are few and far between. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The legend of the modern roller derby has claimed its place in the Generation X canon: playing on an outdated fad of their Nixon-era upbringing, some tattooed, disaffected young women from Texas reimagined the sport as a symbol of postfeminist sisterhood. Tough, brash and calculatedly sexy, with a rockabilly swagger, the roller girls declared themselves She.E.O.'s, started a coast-to-coast cultural juggernaut and inspired books, reality TV shows and a forthcoming Drew Barrymore movie. But history will record the odd man out was, in fact, a man. And certainly odd. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SPEAKING as someone born the same year as Barack Obama, I was very happy after Election Day to hear various political analysts and TV commentators describe him as our nation's first Generation X president. This could be a critically important development for all of us born in 1961. It could be the loophole we've been waiting for, the one that gets us out of the baby boomer generation and gives us another shot at being young. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I've been thinking a lot lately about Tom Brokaw's book ''The Greatest Generation,'' that classic about our parents and their incredible sacrifices during World War II. What I've been thinking about actually is this: What book will our kids write about us? ''The Greediest Generation?'' ''The Complacent Generation?'' Or maybe: ''The Subprime Generation: How My Parents Bailed Themselves Out for Their Excesses by Charging It All on My Visa Card.'' Our kids should be so much more radical than they are today. I understand why they aren't. They're so worried about just getting a job or paying next semester's tuition. But we must not take their quietism as license to do whatever we want with this bailout cash. They are going to have to pay this money back. And therefore, we have an incredibly weighty obligation to make sure that we not only spend every stimulus dollar wisely but also with an eye to creating new technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Generation X nostalgia and modern technology have come together in the ''Knight Rider'' Global Positioning System from Mio Technology. The Knight Rider GPS (www.knightridergps.com) takes both its sound and style from the 1980s television show about a computerized talking 1982 Pontiac Firebird named KITT. William Daniels, the actor who was the voice of the sleek black car, narrates the unit's driving directions. The device, which sports a black exterior and flashing red lights, can be personalized to use one of 300 common names in the greetings and random phrases it utters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article explores how fashion trends in 2006 are reminiscent of the grunge look of the early 1990s. The speculation is made that this might be attributed to the fact that those who grew up as part of Generation-X are now adults interested in recalling their youth as they anticipate their middle years. Perspectives from style experts are presented, and the ways in which industry leaders are adopting specific trends are highlighted, such as Chanel's marketing of Black Satin nail polish.

Focuses on the challenges faced by the hotel industry in satisfying the contrasting tastes of its two core business traveler constituencies, the baby boomers and Generation X.

Examines the new generation of conservatives in the post-William F. Buckley Jr. period. What Buckley's vision was when he started the "National Review" and how the Bush administration seems to be testing that definition of conservatism; Debate among young conservatives in an effort to define themselves; Conservative organizations and the direction many are leaning which includes a reluctance to regulate the behavior of others.

Reports on the attitudes of the so-called generation X workers to their younger counterparts of Generation Y. How the younger workers are viewed in the market place; Comments from Peter Cappelli, the author of "The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce"; Sense of free-agency among the workers; Willingness to trade stability for mobility with no guarantees of job security; Unemployment rates among these workers; Personal stories from Generation Y employees.

Reports that Americans in there thirties are playing more board games. Generation X which was the first raised in the personal computer age; Statement that it is harder to see friends as you get older; Board games which are more social than computers.

Focuses on the magazine 'Heat,' a British publication that chronicles the lives of celebrities. Popularity of the magazine; How the journalistic tone used in 'Heat' reflects the irreverent attitude of Generation X; Analysis of the magazine's appeal in the popular culture of London, England; Discussion of its marketing strategy.

Observes how some adult Generation X men remain action figure aficionados. How they rationalize collecting action figures and mint-condition dolls; Discussion of their emotional reaction and motivation; Comments of Pam Danziger, author of 'Why People Buy Things They Don't Need'; Observation that G.I. Joe is sold mainly to nostalgic adults.

Focuses on a study which surveyed the loyalty of employees belonging to the Generation X population toward their job in the United States.

Reports on the coexistence of so-called Generations X and Y in the workplace. Mention of misunderstanding between generations; How Generation X, whose members are in their thirties, came of age during economic recession; Perception that the younger members of Generation Y are more focused on career, more confident and more optimistic than their older counterparts

Focuses on the opinions of several young people in the United States who do not identify themselves with any specific generation, particularly not the popular conceptions about 'Generation X' mentality. Comments on how their age group (20s to early 30s) defines itself; Definition of a generation and why such definitions are important; Comments on marriage, family, and careers; The generation gap; How popular culture defines generations and what they stand for.

Shares an experience of being a member of Generation X in the United States. Misconception of older people about Generation X; Challenges faced by the young people.

Profiles ad executive Steven Grasse of Gyro Worldwide, whose firm creates ads aimed at Generation X. The elusiveness of these consumers during the late 1980s and early 1990s; Definition of this demographic group, also known as baby busters; Background of Grasse's founding of the agency; The firm's corporate culture; Clients, including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. INSET: An advertising evolution: From `groovy' to `the bomb'.

Reports on the unpredictability of the members of the Generation X with regards to their choice in the 1996 presidential elections in the United States. Views of working student Kevin Rogers; Unwillingness of political experts to predict what direction the young vote will take; Major effort being made to register members of the Generation X.

Looks at efforts by Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin to win over voters of ages 18 to 30, by using American-style tactics. Use of heavy-metal music in television spots; Yeltsin's pledge to end the draft, lower education costs, and raise student aid; Public opinion results on young voters' attitudes towards Yeltsin and Communist rival Gennadi A. Zyuganov.