"charity-buzz" Articles & Blogs:
Larsson's 'Hornet Girl' Stirs Summer Book Buzz
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Female authors this year have produced something for every type of summer reading, from light, fluffy and popular to feminist tracts and epic literary explorations.
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Another Great Feature of Project Pink
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For all the Twitter-ers out there, you’re probably quite familiar with the #projectpink hash tag that signifies $1 donated to the fight against breast cancer. The Project Pink partnership between PUMA and WPS also supports specific breast cancer ...[Read on] |
SI for Kids: Basic lessons in gender, sport
| At the UM Tucker Center lecture Monday night on women's sports and social media, I suggested that the primary function of mediated/spectator sports in U.S. culture is to reinforce gender norms (apologies to Noam Chomsky). It starts early. Just loo...[Read on] |
An Education
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The second An Education opened at Sundance last January the buzz began. The buzz was most especially focused on the star making performance of a pretty unknown English actress Carey Mulligan. Sometimes the buzz blows over or gets overtaken by new buzz...[Read on] |
Hilary Swank Talks About Meeting the Woman She Played in “Conviction”
| From PatrickMcMullan.com Last night, buzz at a Cinema Society gig for Conviction, the upcoming legal drama, was palpable as industry insiders flocked to fete Hilary Swank and her co-stars Sam Rockwell and Juliette Lewis. But the real stars of the evening ...[Read on] |
Operation Fairy Dust Saves the Prom
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Although one of the more memorable moments in a teenager's life, the prom can be a stressful occasion, especially for girls who can't afford to dress the part of the formal affair. Luckily there's organizations like Operation Fairy Dust, a New York...[Read on] |
Gaga, Japan's Lady in Shining Armor?
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Months after the most powerful known earthquake to hit Japan, the country continues to suffer. Tourism in Japan is taking a hard hit. Asahi TV reports about a 50.3% decrease in the number of foreign tourists visiting Japan in March, most likely affe...[Read on] |
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie Sue Label over Charity CD
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Why are Joan Jett and Cherie Currie suing Main Man records over a Runaways tribute album slated for release later this month? According to Main Man's site, portions of the proceeds of Take It or Leave It, which includes 2 cds full of prominent rockers cov...[Read on] |
Precious kills at the box office
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This weekend catapulted Precious to the top of the Oscar list with a record setting debut in theatres. Let me say that again- RECORD SETTING DEBUT. It made $1.8 million dollars on a total of 18 screens. That is an average of $100,000 per screen whic...[Read on] |
Annie Leibovitz Comments on Tiger Woods Cover Photo
| Our February 2010 cover, featuring an Annie Leibovitz portrait of Tiger Woods, is attracting plenty of interest. Here is what Leibovitz herself had to say about it: “Tiger is an intensely competitive athlete—and quite serious about his sport. ...[Read on] |
French Open:Venus’ outfit creates buzz
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Venus Williams is already making headlines at the French Open — and not just for her play.
In Paris, a city known for fashion, the elder Williams sister took to Court Suzanne Lenglen Sunday for her opening-round match wearing a lacy black corset...[Read on] |
Venus' French Open fashion: Hit or Miss?
| The French Open is officially underway but the most memorable moment thus far has nothing to do with tennis. Instead, all of the buzz is centered around Venus Williams' on-court attire.
As a fashion designer herself, Venus never disappoints fans when she...[Read on] |
Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball
| The topic of women and baseball is one frequently mentioned on this blog; just recently we posted about the Indiana teenager whose lawsuit integrated high school baseball in her state. There's also been much buzz lately about the International Baseball F...[Read on] |
Another magazine another photoshopped woman
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Seriously, why do magazines think that we won’t notice? Or are they truly going with the “a photo is just the beginning of our art project” theory? Becuase if photos are just an art project for them, then just fucking say it.
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Serena inaugurates second Kenyan school
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Always a trailblazer. Always doing good things. Always going the extra miles.
Just over a year after visiting Kenya to open the Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, Kenya, Serena Williams returned to the country to follow up on her humanitari...[Read on] |
If you had Warren Buffett's money, in what industry would you invest?
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Candice Bergen, Whoopi Goldberg, Liz Smith and the wOw women get creative with Warren Buffett’s money. Join the conversation … Question of the Day | Today 3:00 amLiz Smith | Today 1:00 amLiz Smith: 'Hooray for Warren Buffett!'
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A new low in coverage of Tiger Woods...in Vanity Fair?
| The cover on the latest Vanity Fair, which includes a story by Buzz Bissinger with sordid details about Tiger Woods' extramarital affairs, plays so baldly to racist stereotypes about black, male athletes that the infamous 2008 Vogue cover pales in compar...[Read on] |
Our Bodies Our Health Heroes
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You may have already seen information about the Our Bodies Our Health Heroes Contest, but I thought that it was great enough to post again for those who haven’t seen it yet, or for those who have a hero but need that extra reminder to submit (god kn...[Read on] |
Wesleyan women’s rights activist shot and killed
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Johanna Justin-Jinich, a Wesleyan student, was shot and killed yesterday by Stephen Morgan, a man who had been harassing and possibly stalking her. He walked into the bookstore where she worked and shot her. He has not yet been apprehended, and may be ta...[Read on] |
Senate Confirms Sotomayor
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Awesome.
Sotomayor would not have been my first pick for a Supreme Court justice for a lot of reasons — chief among them her disturbing deference to law enforcement and her lack of regard for privacy rights. But she is undoubtedly a highly-quali...[Read on] |
What Bigelow Effect? Women Directors to Acheive Parity in 2060…Maybe
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I’m a little late to this party but I wanted to give a big shout out to Elisabeth Rappe at Film.com for her awesome and thorough piece: In What Year Will Female Directors Make Up Half the Workforce?
She makes some really great points and reiterat...[Read on] |
Will the Internet Ruin Your Children's Brains? (Hint: No) (Video)
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Tech guru Molly Wood investigates the ‘dangers’ of Internet use for teenagersPost | Today 7:00 am
Editor’s Note: Molly Wood is an executive editor and on-camera personality at CNETTV.com.
Molly hosts the weekly Buzz Report video blog, a so...[Read on] |
Lunafest Coming to the NY Area on May 23rd
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For those uninitiated, Lunafest is a short film festival by and about women founded in 2000 by the folks that bring you Luna bars.
It’s a traveling festivals and appears in communities across the country hosted by different organizations. You can fin...[Read on] |
Lunafest- A Women’s Film Festival Near You
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The folks who bring us the yummy lunabars are also the ones behind Lunafest - a traveling festival of films by and about women - that are happening in communities across the country.
They are looking for submissions for the next festival and the deadline...[Read on] |
Run Like a Girl: Endurance Racing
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Endurance racing can be intimidating but once you make the leap, the amount of support and encouragement that comes from the community is infectious. Not surprisingly, many of the races for women benefit a female-targeted charity or cause. Here are some g...[Read on] |
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