"library" Articles & Blogs:
"Here she is, world!" Celebrate Gypsy's 100th Birthday with The New York Public Library
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To celebrate the 100th birthday of perhaps the most iconic burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, the New York Public Library has planned an event that is sure to be spectacular. Karen Abbott, author of the acclaimed biography American Rose, A Nation La...[Read on] |
Dear So and So: Library Fines
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Dear Library Fines,
I write to tell you that you scare me. I know I don’t have the best memory. And when I do remember that you are overdue (thank you e-mailed notifications!) I am sometimes too lazy to return the books. Sorry.
But back to why you s...[Read on] |
Social Studies: The Week in Twitter Trending Topics
| It is time, once again, to look back fondly upon the week in Twitter trending topics. We’ve taken screen shots of the top 10 terms every day this week. Naturally, they will all be archived in the Library of VF Daily. Join us, as we trace and analyze our...[Read on] |
Megabeth: Librarian is hell on wheels
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Looks like there’s no typical road to the roller derby rink.
Resident grandmas can lay a smackdown as easily as the younger girls. In fact, women of all ages and sizes lace up to give it a shot.
Fifty-three-year-old Beth Hollis of Akron, OH is a so...[Read on] |
Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How to Escape the Internet
| Today’s Wall Street Journal exposes the growing trend of the Internet being used as a tool of procrastination. (Surely you, person reading this on a Tuesday at four p.m., have not heard of anything like this.) Easily distracted novelists seek solace in ...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Under Fire for Stimulus Rejection
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Alaskans are increasingly angry at their governor for refusing key components of the government’s stimulus packagePost | Today 9:35 am
Sarah Palin received an earful from constituents this weekend when dozens of Alaska voters gathered to protest t...[Read on] |
Nora and Delia Ephron New Off-Broadway Play
| Nora and Delia Ephron. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “It’s the Vagina Monologues without the vaginas” is how the Ephron sisters (writers Nora and Delia) describe their wise and witty little play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, based on the best...[Read on] |
Helen Thomas and the Perils of Overstaying Your Washington Welcome
| Helen Thomas takes notes during an informal press briefing with President Gerald Ford, 1976. (Yes, that’s chief of staff Dick Cheney looking on at the far left.) Photo from the Library of Congress. I am old enough to have been present in the White H...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Poject: Highway 61 visited
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Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.
Mac and I are now happily ensconced in the public library in Wabasha...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Go with the wind
| (Editors Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian recently embarked on a year long odyssey kayaking the length of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one in a series of journal en...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: Cannes Watch
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Here are some of the women directors and films about women that are rolling out in Cannes.
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo- Isabel Coixet
Synopsis: Ryu is a solitary girl whose fragile appearance is in stark contrast with the double life she leads, working ...[Read on] |
The history of women’s sports we’d rather forget (but shouldn’t)
| By Laura Pappano
Word last week that rare film footage of Babe Ruth had been discovered by a New Hampshire man among his grandfather’s home movies provided yet another opportunity to lovingly recall the delightful history of sport, in this case, baseba...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: The earth remains forever
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(Editors Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian has developed an obsession with the Mississippi River: especially the impact of the river on the development of American culture. She recently embarked on a year long odyssey traveling the len...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: Along for the Ride
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Talking about this book today. Transcript after the jump!
<p>Hi everybody! I'm Miriam and I'm doing this week's Not Oprah's Book Club. I'm standing in for Courtney because I wanted to talk...[Read on] |
Egyptian Cleric bars veiled women from school
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Egypt's most powerful Muslim cleric, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has announced an impending religious edict against the wearing of full, face-covering, headscarves, or niqab. He apparently announced that full-face veiling was a custom independent from Islam,...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: 10,000 lakes; 1000 pictures
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I’m sitting in a snack bar overlooking Lake Calhoun in the city of Minneapolis, and of course it has free wi-fi and power outlets wherever you might need them: the Twin Cities being one of those places that seems to regard wi-fi as a public good, very h...[Read on] |
Found - One red kayak
| So I’m driving back from dropping off Rafaela at the Quad Cities Airport (I felt really bad that her whole visit was taken up with searching for the lost gear: not much of a river trip for her, that’s for sure), and as I was heading over the Burlingto...[Read on] |
Women Are Still Less Equal
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It's not difficult to understand why a top dog might want to stay on top. For most of human history, females have been repeatedly marginalized by more powerful males until it's been institutionalized to a greater or lesser extent in almost all cultures. ...[Read on] |
Read On: Pretty Tough Book Club
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Last month I received a note from a teacher at Apopka High School in Apopka, Florida who is a huge fan of ”Pretty Tough” by Liz Tigelaar, the first book in our young adult fiction series.
JoJo says, “I loved it as a teacher who sees students...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Only a pawn in their game
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It’s been a sort of strange and unfocused few days these days: I left the river to go to Jackson to meet up with a new fellow-traveler who got laid low with asthma at the last minute and had to cancel. Somehow the combination of being far from the riv...[Read on] |
Soundtrack to a Chick’s Life: Great Songs For Every iPod
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Personally, I think One Tree Hill’s Peyton Sawyer said it best on Peyton’s Podcast: “Sometimes, things find you when you need them to find you, I believe that. For me, it’s usually song lyrics.”
Almost every chick has had a moment in her life w...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: When the levee breaks
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Monday morning, I drove down to Rosedale and headed first to the library, where Martha the librarian gave me an excellent orientation to the town and its history. Turns out this area was a big center for making moonshine during Prohibition — instead o...[Read on] |
How to beat the winter blues
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It’s the middle of the winter; the next vacation period is weeks away, and the monotonous, daily grind of school or work is draining the energy out of you. This can only mean one thing…the winter blues have kicked in.
While it may seem trivial to att...[Read on] |
City Series Part Ten: Minneapolis
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Ranked as one of the America’s best cities, and the second most fun city in the country by the Ritz Cracker FUNomenal Places Study, Minneapolis is full of attractions ready to be explored.From arts, live music and great restaurants to sports and parks, ...[Read on] |
Interview with Wendy Jo Carlton – Director of Hannah Free
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Hannah Free, the new film starring Sharon Gless, written by Claudia Allen (adapted from her play) and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton will premiere on Sunday, June 28 as the closing night film for the Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco.
The film ...[Read on] |
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