"alicia-keys" Articles & Blogs:
ChickSpeak hearts The Black Keys
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You would probably never guess it by looking at them, but blues rock band The Black Keys are subtly ushering in a new age of musical genius.The seemingly nondescript pair, never wearing much more than their own jeans and Converse in videos, effortlessly b...[Read on] |
Inspired by music, Taurus designers find harmony
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Popular culture is filled with examples of cars inspiring music. The Beach Boys loved their "Little Deuce Coupe" and, of course, Wilson Pickett sang about "Mustang Sally." Turns out it's a two-way street: Music can inspire car designers, too.
A diverse ...[Read on] |
'Glee’s' Lea Michele tackles “America the Beautiful” at Super Bowl XLV
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Access Hollywood has confirmed that Lea Michele, the 24-year-old Broadway ingenue-turned-breakout star of “Glee,” will be singing “America the Beautiful” prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers showdown in Super Bowl XLV.
Pas...[Read on] |
More Cannes Lineup - Women Directors
| It’s getting a bit more difficult to determine the exact gender of the lineups coming through from Cannes because the filmmakers are not as experienced and I can’t tell the gender from google searches.
So here is my best guess for the lineup just ann...[Read on] |
Notes on a Scandal, or, VMAs=FAIL.
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MTV gets a lot of grief about losing it’s music video mojo, but after last night’s debacle of a Video Music Awards, rejecting the music world doesn’t seem like a bad idea. At least in the interest of sanity.
By now the world knows abo...[Read on] |
Band on the Rise: ChickSpeak Hearts Dreaden
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The city of Atlanta, G.A. is an example of the classic melting pot of different cultures, musical sounds, and visual arts that make southern metropolitans of today the best places to find new artists of all varieties. The music scene in Atlanta is more di...[Read on] |
Are keyless start/stop systems safe?
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I gotta confess, I'm not so good with car keys. I'm always fumbling to find them at the bottom of my purse, and even though I have a designated drop spot for them in the house, half the time I never remember to put them there. Yep: I am the pathetic sap ...[Read on] |
Top Three Parties: Coachella, Coachella, Coachella
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Paul McCartney. 2. The Killers. 3. Lupe Fiasco. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Every Monday, VF Daily usually picks the top three parties around the globe that happened over the weekend. But this weekend, there was only one party that mattered: Coachella. Coa...[Read on] |
Women Talk Sports Blogderby: Round 1
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Intro: Welcome to the very first Women Talk Sports (WTS) Blogderby, Round 1.
Every few weeks, we will “pass the torch” to a different blogger in our community who will be responsible for rounding up the best blog posts about women’s sports.
If y...[Read on] |
Right-wing shock jocks: Now attacking children
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This is reprehensible (trigger warning). I’m not going to quote from the piece because it’s really sickening, but the gist is this: Right-wing radio jocks in Sacramento attacked transgender kids, calling them horrible names and basically enco...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend- May 22
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Opening This Week
It’s a good thing the weather will be nice in the east cause there are slim pickings at the movies this weekend. I have no interest in the new Terminator and if I see Night at the Museum 2, and that’s a big if, it will be to see Am...[Read on] |
Winter’s Bone Scores Multiple Indie Spirit Nominations
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Winter’s Bone the big winner at the Gotham awards on Monday evening scored seven nominations for the 26th Independent Spirit Awards. The awards will be given out the day before the Oscars on February 26th.
The Kids Are All Right was right behin...[Read on] |
Spare Change and a Big Lesson
| My favorite way to spend time is outside a coffee shop, with a delicious cappuccino, a good book, and some sunshine. This is my ideal me time, and the less interruptions, the better. In fact, I’m known to even put my Blackberry away, with the ringer t...[Read on] |
Sundance Non-Competition
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Here’s the rest of the women directed and women-centric movies showing at Sundance in January. (Info from Hollywood Reporter)
PREMIERES
The Extra Man (Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini; screenwriters: Robert Pulcini, Jonathan Ames, Sh...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Green Is Sexy: Helping the Environment One Tip at a Time
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Admittedly, there are days when it feels like the fight for the environment is a losing battle. Leaps and bounds in the right direction can suddenly amount to nothing when news of more polar bears drowning in the arctic reaches home and earthquakes of epi...[Read on] |
Traveling on a budget? Try a hotel alternative
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As a newly minted college grad, I had one thing on my mind: buy a plane ticket to Europe and spend six week backpacking across the countries I had only ever dreamed of visiting. But after I started calculating the price tag of my European adventure - from...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Alexis Wolfer: Beauty guru changing the industry with The Beauty Bean
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Full of sass and intrigue, one woman’s creation is aiming to make a revolution in the world of beauty and of women’s magazines.
Alexis Wolfer, a 25-year-old founder and CEO, created The Beauty Bean, an online beauty and health women’s magazine. La...[Read on] |
For Earth Day I bought an Eco-Friendlier Car!
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It's Earth Day and this celebration is virtually the holy grail of holidays for environmentalism so in honor of the importance of going green and being earth friendly I bought another brand spanking new eco-friendly car!
I did a lot of research (both o...[Read on] |
Dear soon to be graduates of Ms. Van Alstyne’s English Class:
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(Ed. Note: Writer Heather Dune Macadam is the author of Rena's Promise, a non-fiction account of the first transport of women into Auschwitz. The book is required reading in many high schools and colleges and this blog is devoted to some of the many ques...[Read on] |
Saying goodbye to my totaled Honda Accord
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I said goodbye to my dear old Honda Accord recently, after visiting it at the impound lot for the last time and removing the last bits of my belongings from within its interior. This junkyard, with thousands of other scrapped cars just like it, has becom...[Read on] |
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