"lillith-fair" Articles & Blogs:
This week: New York Liberty tickets giveaway contest; sports industry career fair
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Check it out – there’s a giveaway for tickets to the 7/30 New York Liberty game vs the Washington Mystics over at WomenTalkSports.com.
If you work in the industry and you live in New York, it may benefit you to attend the Liberty’s career fair bein...[Read on] |
Valerie Plame on Fair Game: I Am Really Good with an AK-47
| If Tuesday’s election didn’t sate your thirst for back-stabbing politics and blatant public deceit, then the cineplex has just the thing for you this weekend: Fair Game. With the gritty, hyperkinetic sensibility that he demonstrated in The Bourne Iden...[Read on] |
Is Sotomayor Supremely Stylish?
| Never let it be said that the monkeys who bang out these Open Bar columns don’t appreciate the priorities and interests of the audience here at Vanity Fair. Sure, some of you may be interested in reading about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s 1...[Read on] |
Gender Controversy: A debate
| Any big event is going to be with its fair share of controversy. That’s just the way things work. The World Championships in Berlin are no different. Today a story has emerged that has the word written all over it. The women’s 800 meter final is t...[Read on] |
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] |
Just Released: Victory for Equal Pay in the Courts
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In a triumphant development for equal pay, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of Mary Lou Mikula, holding that her Title VII pay discrimination claim had been erroneously dismissed on the basis that her charge was not timely. The Na...[Read on] |
Go Girl: Pee Standing Up
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The anchor said, "laugh if you want, but the things taking off!" Imagine that, women are tired of dirty toilettes we can't sit on, waiting in long lines, holding it for miles or when in the woods alm...[Read on] |
Review: Bridesmaids
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The word being tossed around in relation to Kristen Wiig's star-making new comedy Bridesmaids is womance, and the portmanteau is somewhat apt but not entirely fair. Writers love a good pun or, better yet, a tidy way to label something, especia...[Read on] |
Oscar Party Recap: Hollywood Finds Its License to Chill
| Sandra Bullock and Jesse James at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Photograph by Getty/VF. Perhaps for the first time since 2007, when the financial crisis was still a glimmer in the banking industry’s eye, Hollywood gave itself permission to have a little ...[Read on] |
How Do You Know If You're Being Paid Fairly?
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by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
My first job was as a hostess at a steakhouse in my hometown — the kind with a giant all-you-can-eat salad-and-baked-potato bar and a bestselling Tuesday night half-priced-prime-r...[Read on] |
Affordable Care Act Helps Women Except That...
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This is according to a story linked on DailyKos.com , via a Web MD story on a new Commonwealth Fund Study. (PDF)
About 7.3 million women aged 19 to 64 were turned down when they tried to buy an insurance plan, charged a higher rate than men, or had a ...[Read on] |
Fair pay and athletics: The gender disparities continue to loom
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This post is part of an initiative by the National Women’s Law Center in honor of Equal Pay Day — “voices are rising up across the web in support of fair pay for women.” All day, they’ll be promoting blog posts about fair pay and tweets with the...[Read on] |
Hurricane Katrina: Five Years Later
| As the water rushed in, knocking down the door of her grandmother's home on Touro Street, Tonya Arrington, right, and nine family members headed to the roof. They spent two days and nights on top of the house before being rescued and taken to the conventi...[Read on] |
Emma Stone on Dropping Out of High School, Adjusting to Fame, and Her Hardest Hollywood Moment Yet
| Photo by Patrick Demarchelier.New York, N.Y.—“I micro-manage,” Emma Stone tells Vanity Fair writer Alexandra Wolfe. “I think I’m a Type A personality who’s trying to convince herself she’s Type B,” the actress says, admitting that she stil...[Read on] |
Lindsay Lohan’s Jail Cell Is Next to That of the Bling Ring’s Alexis Neiers
| This week, incarcerated starlet Lindsay Lohan began serving her 90-day sentence in a Lynwood, California, jail. Although the Los Angeles Country sheriff’s office estimates that she will likely only remained locked up for two weeks, Access Hollywood repo...[Read on] |
2010 Gift Guide: Literary Classics
| This year, Vanity Fair is checking its holiday wish list twice. Check back each day for a favorite pick from Punch Hutton’s Hot Gifts. Penguin Classics has introduced a set of eight classic novels with beautifully reinterpreted covers: Cranford, Great E...[Read on] |
Are We Paying Attention to the Wrong Gun-Toting Mama Grizzly?
| Though many political observers may be bewitched, bothered, and bewildered by Christine O’Donnell, Sarah Palin, and Sharron Angle, respectively, most are unaware of the formidable political force that is Kristi Noem, a Republican candidate for Congress ...[Read on] |
Legendary Pinup Jane Russell’s 1948 Vanity Fair Cover
| From the Everett Collection.
Jane Russell died Monday of respiratory failure at her Santa Maria, Calif., home, surrounded by family—she was 89 years old. And 63 years ago this month, Russell appeared as the face of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue—prom...[Read on] |
Pale male fail – Who makes the most in Hollywood
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Vanity Fair has put together a list of Hollywood’s highest film earners and not surprisingly, at the top of the list are all white men. The highest female on the list is Emma Watson who made $30 million for the latest Harry Potter films. ($15 million ...[Read on] |
NYWIFT Muse Awards
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the NYWIFT Muse Awards which honored some amazing women including America Ferrara (Ugly Betty); Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife); Allison Silverman (formerly the Executive Producer of the Colbert Report); Andrea...[Read on] |
Can the NFL make pink a legit sport color?
| By Laura Pappano
I can’t wait to see what happens when I tune in to the NFL this weekend. Will we see more dropped passes? Missed routes? Hugging and giggling in the huddle?
After all, the league is kicking off a month-long effort to support breast ca...[Read on] |
Exclusive! Excerpts from the Indefinitely Suspended Sarah Palin Children’s Book
| Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story is (was?) a biography of its titular subject geared toward Christian youth. However, it has been suspended “indefinitely” by publisher Zondervan. According to the Associated Press, “Cheryl Lundberg, Zondervan's dir...[Read on] |
"Pop Stars Should Not Eat": The 10 Strangest Lady Gaga Quotes from That New York Magazine Piece
| From LadyGaga.com.
Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis has a giant profile of Lady Gaga in this week's New York magazine. In the spirit of the Internet, though, we've condensed the piece into a series of infinitely Tweet-able and away mess...[Read on] |
Nancy Pelosi voted to continue House leadership
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After learning that the Fair Pay Act failed and women’s representation in Congress has officially decreased, I’m happy to announce one piece of good pro-woman news today: Nancy Pelosi was...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Po...[Read on] |
Chic Q&A;: A Chick’s Guide to Yellow
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With the LA Lakers on all our minds after the epic seven-game battle last week where they reigned victorious, that yellow hued jersey is seen around just about every corner. But yellow has been making a come back before the NBA Finals obvious contribution...[Read on] |
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