"long-beach" Articles & Blogs:
Dear Jurisprudence: Is It Legal for Rodney King to Marry a Juror from His Trial?
| Rodney King announced yesterday that he has proposed to his girlfriend, Cynthia Kelley, a juror from his 1993 civil case against the city of Los Angeles. If a plaintiff’s marrying a juror sounds suspect, that’s because it very well could be! A...[Read on] |
The mommy discourse: Motherhood and sexification
| Misty May is coming back to professional volleyball this month. May is the latest athlete mommy to return to competition. And thus the mommy discourse continues. Laura Pappano comments on May's return and discusses the other mommy returns. It seems like s...[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] |
The Young & the Pregnant: Updates All Around
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Hey Chicks! Long time no see! It’s been a crazy couple of weeks starting with (cue Funeral March) the Week of Finals which I miraculously survived. I hope all of you college Chicks out there finished up your year without too many crams sessions or sleep...[Read on] |
Volleyball star Kerri Walsh becomes a mom
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Olympic gold medals are cool. But two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh just got the biggest prize of all: She became a mom.
Walsh, 30, and her husband, AVP pro-volley ball player Casey Jennings, 33, welcomed son Joseph Michael Jenn...[Read on] |
Oil Spill's Harm to Pregnant Women Unknown
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Ashley Hoffman is pregnant, lives in Alabama and loves visiting the beach.
But this summer the hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil that have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig on Ap...[Read on] |
Diana Nyad: Force of Nature at 60
| When I was a few months from turning 60 (five years ago), I decided to train for and swim the Provincetown Harbor Swim for Life: A mile and a half distance from Long Point at the tip of Cape Cod to the beach at the Boat Slip. I got myself a new wet suit a...[Read on] |
Female auto tech student finds success with Ferrari
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We love to have the chance to share about great opportunities for women in the automotive industry, and were so delighted when we heard this excellent story about Ashley Waller. This young woman put a business degree on hold to attend automotive technica...[Read on] |
Review of Unmatched: Martina and Chris
| Here is an excellent review of Unmatched, an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about the friendship and tennis rivalry between Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. I don’t know if ESPN will be airing this again, but it is worth checking your local listings if ...[Read on] |
Hot to (Turkey) Trot
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It’s that time of the year again when turkey lovers who love to run gather for an appetite-inducing morning of good-natured competition. So, what exactly is a Turkey Trot?
On Thanksgiving Day, or very near it, runners across the nation lace up th...[Read on] |
Surf’s Up – The Basics
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Girls Surfing
Summer is in full swing so what better time to head to the beach and try surfing? If you’ve never tried it, surfing can be a bit intimidating. But fear not, we have all the tips you need to get you started.
The Basics
Learning to surf...[Read on] |
Silver Surfer: 72 year old Kitty Pechet wins ESA Open Women title
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Seventy-two-year-old Grand Legend Kitty Pechet didn’t let the 32 degree water temperature and 28 degree air temperature stop her from winning the Open Women’s title at the 2009 England Mid-Winter Regionals....[Read on] |
How Carefully Do You Read Those "No Parking" Signs?
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I got the idea for this story after I saw this funny photo blog at LAist in which South Bay photographer and Flickr user jakerome documents the fun of parking in Hermosa Beach (a beach community in the Los Angeles area): "No overnight parking. Except...[Read on] |
Movie Review: "Going the Distance"
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Let me preface this review by saying I really liked this movie. “Going the Distance” is about a couple dealing with a long distance relationship in an economically unstable period. They meet in New York City and have what Erin (Drew Barr...[Read on] |
Gadhafi's Revolutionary Nuns: An All-Female Team of Bodyguards Protects the Libyan Leader
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In the wake of the unrest/civil war/revolution in Libya, a lot of media attention has been paid to the eccentricities of their four-decade long leader and tyrant, Moammar Gadhafi. He’s been getting a lot of media attention for his wacky ways, his bi...[Read on] |
Sunset Showdown: Basketball under the stars
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And on Sunday, June 6th, you can join the Los Angeles Sparks players and coaches and help clean up Santa Monica Beach. Meet 9:00 am at 1600 Ocean Front Walk (North side of Pier, Tower 1550).
For more info on both events, go to LASparks.com
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The well-spent life is long
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L’acqua che tochi de fiumi, è l’ultima di quella che andò, e la prima di quelle che viene; così il tempo presente. La vita bene spesa lunga è.
Leonardo da Vinci, Note 1174
here’s my translation [eager for improvements from my Italian-speaking ...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Long List of the Foreign Language Contenders
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The Academy released the 65 titles eligible for the best foreign film. Only SEVEN of the 65 are directed by women. Guess that things aren’t so much better outside the US for women directors.
Here are the women, the countries and their films:
Hunga...[Read on] |
How Long Does it Take to Eat, Pray, and Love? (And 24 Other Urgent Questions)
| Julia Roberts stars in this weekend’s estrogen-fueled answer to The Expendables, Eat Pray Love. Can the star power of Roberts, who plays a new divorcee on a yearlong jaunt around the world, defeat the brute force of Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and...[Read on] |
Moms, daughters play ball for cancer research
| Pink will be plentiful at this week’s third annual Susan G. Komen Girls Flag Football Tournament.
The three-day event, which includes two days of competition and a Bigger and Better Family Fun Night, is a fund-raiser for Susan G. Komen For the Cure.
Mor...[Read on] |
Tea Party Women Could Change the Score, Long Term
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(WOMENSENEWS)--It could be the way Republican billionaire Meg Whitman is spending record millions of her own money on her gubernatorial campaign in California and attracting attention to her domestic-worker employment practices.
Or maybe it's the upset v...[Read on] |
Planning the Ultimate Chicks-Only Getaway
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Summer is quickly approaching and chicks in colleges across the country are getting ready for the upcoming months of internships, jobs, and, in some cases, summer classes. However, just because a chick’s summer schedule may not be as flexible as it was ...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Voda Swimwear & Yulia Drummond
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the most, er, curvaceous girl in the world. While I have other womanly qualities, I’m not so well-endowed in the chestular area.
Not only is it tough to rock low-cut shirts, but when it comes to bathing suits...[Read on] |
Chic Q&A with Cady: Keeping it Simple
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This past week, after a flurried rush of getting ready for an Independence Day party I was already late for, I realized that I had shoved through lace dresses, high-waisted satin shorts, and a seersucker sundress only to end up keeping it simple- a v-neck...[Read on] |
Newsflash: The Summer of 2011 Movies Will Have No Women Leads
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Here’s another sign that we still haven’t moved the dial forward in relation to blockbuster films.
Director John Favreau told the LA Times that next summer will be crazy in terms of the amount of product that will be released and that not e...[Read on] |
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