"gabriel-garcia-marquez" Articles & Blogs:
California high school elects gay male prom queen
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Sergio Garcia, an 18 year old student at Fairfax High school in Los Angeles was elected Prom Queen last week.
From the LA Times:
Garcia, 18, spent most of his years at Fairfax openly gay and wanted to be part of the Los Angeles school's prom court --...[Read on] |
Casi Divas- Interview with Director Issa Lopez
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Casi Divas tells the story of four very different women vying in a contest to become the next big telenovela star. It is a story infused with dreams of changing your life and desires for celebrity and success but if you think it is all gloss you will mi...[Read on] |
Letters to Loved Ones Month
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I know, I know, you’re probably cocking your head to one side right about now and scrunching your face in confusion. Why in August — not February — am I choosing this theme, you might ask? Well, even with the heat bearing down on most of us and wil...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: National Book Award Nominees
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Here are the women who were nominated for the National Book Awards. Winners will be announced on November 18,
Fiction
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Non-Fictio...[Read on] |
Hollywood Deals
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Some interesting things in the works:
Shana Feste (The Greatest) has been hired by Hilary Swank’s 2S Films to adapt the novel “You’re Not You” and direct it for the big screen. The debut novel of Michelle Wildgen, “You’re Not You” is about ...[Read on] |
Mother and Child
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Just in time for Mother’s Day, Mother and Child peels back the layers of three very different women all linked together through adoption. Karen (Annette Bening) gave away her daughter when she was fourteen and she has never fully been able to recover ...[Read on] |
Purevolume: Unsigned bands you should be tuning into
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As college students, we all know that we could use a distraction every once in a while. One of my favorite websites for that much needed distraction is Purevolume. It is a website dedicated to getting the word out about bands that you’ve probably never ...[Read on] |
Amelia & Motherhood
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It’s opening day for Amelia and Motherhood.
I am out of town today at a meeting so here are truncated reviews of both films. I will have an interview with Katherine Dieckmann writer and director of Motherhood next week.
Amelia Earhart is one of thos...[Read on] |
More Women at Toronto
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The Toronto Film Festival has added more films including Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria as the closing night film. (description from indiewire)
Set between 1836, the year before her ascension, to 1840, the year she married Prince Alb...[Read on] |
Back in Black to battle breast cancer
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When you think about southern California, Los Angeles is probably first in mind. Along with the city of Angels you may think of Disneyland, the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, The Oceanside Pier, the summits of the San Gabriel Mountains, the Colorado and M...[Read on] |
What to Watch & What to Not: TV Shows Mid-Season Review
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If the end of summer vacation means the beginning of many new things (a new school year, new fashion trends, and, of course, brand-new TV shows), then the end of winter break gives just enough time for me to promptly forget everything that happened in T...[Read on] |
Top 5 best books that college professors made me read
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As an English major, it pains me to admit that I hardly ever read for fun during college. While I would like to say that block classes and city internships monopolized my spare time, the truth is, I was so tired of reading for class that I could hardly mu...[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] |
President Obama’s Bipartisan Health Care Summit: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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by Julia Kaye, Brigette Courtot, and Kelli Garcia,National Women's Law Center
A colleague of ours equated yesterday’s Bipartisan Health Care Summit to a Superbowl for the CSPAN crowd. The event featured an all-star lineup from the White House, HHS, and...[Read on] |
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