"ny-times" Articles & Blogs:
War Watch: October Deadliest Month for Americans in Afghanistan
| • Taliban gunmen attacked a guest house in central Kabul this morning, killing six U.N. employees, one of whom was an American security guard. (New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC) • On Tuesday, eight American soldiers ...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Women missing on A.O. Scott’s list of great films
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This is just another reason why I have such trouble with the NY Times reviews. A.O. Scott put his subjective look at the “great” films from 2000 to now, and not surprisingly, only a lone female filmmaker (Claire Denis), and not one female centric ...[Read on] |
Democrats Furious Over Tax Cuts
| • House Democrats are not so happy with President Obama after he made a tax-cut deal with Republicans. [The Hill] • Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lashed out at China today after the country failed to intervene diploma...[Read on] |
Too good to be a girl
| So if a young athlete pops onto the track and field scene with personal best times that are considerably better than her previous times you should test her to make sure that:A) she is not taking performance-enhancing drugs.B) she is not a cyborg.C...[Read on] |
Women breaking barriers: A milestone
| From the Association for Women in Sports Media: Today marks the 35th anniversary of Robin Herman and Marcel St. Cyr becoming the first female sports reporters to enter a locker room for post-game interviews.Herman was a reporter at The New York Times and ...[Read on] |
TV Pilot Pickups and Renewals - May 19
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Fox
Is moving Fringe to Thursdays at 9 opposite Grey’s Anatomy, The Office and CSI making that hour a serious problem for us TV addicts.
Dollhouse will be back on Friday nights.
CBS
The Good Wife will star Julianna Margulies as a politician’s wife...[Read on] |
NY Times book review discovers women writers
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Everybody knows that women are the ones that buy books. I’ve heard statistics that say that women buy upwards of 60% of all books. But the NY Times Book Review has always been a boy’s club. Happily, this week the section was actually readable an...[Read on] |
An actress you should know: Kate del Castillo
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If you watch telenovelas you will probably know Kate del Castillo very well (she has appeared in nine), but now luckily, the English speaking world is getting to know her better.
I saw her last year in La Misma Luna and now she has an arc on Weeds as P...[Read on] |
Women at the Top
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Nancy Utley has been promoted to the presidency of Fox Searchlight Pictures. She shares the title with Stephen Giula. Utley has been making Fox Searchlight quite hot of late as the COO overseeing marketing and distribution of movies like Juno to the t...[Read on] |
Women in Uniform in Iraq, Afghanistan, Prove They're Assets in Combat Zones
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It was thought having women with men in combat zones would cause chaos,
too many sex problems, but females have instead helped transform life
on military basesWomen in the Military | 08/17/2009 1:00 pm
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Karl Rove Expresses Doubt That Sarah Palin Is Electable (Again)
| • Karl Rove told the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph that he doesn’t think Sarah Palin is presidential material, because she doesn’t have the “gravitas” that the American people demand. She also probably doesn’t know what gravitas means, but that’s...[Read on] |
As Is Required by Law, Title of New Sarah Palin Biography Contains the Word “Rogue”
| • The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin is the name of forthcoming book by journalist Joe McGinniss, Wasilla’s most unwelcome (human) resident. [Politico] • Widely influential art historian, critic, and collector Leo Steinberg died at the ag...[Read on] |
Women’s HerStory Month on ESPN
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Billie Jean King made history 35 years ago by beating Bobby Riggs in a tennis match in an iconic moment in the history of women’s sports. Today, a new generation of female athletes make their own history on playing fields across the country.
This month...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Fran Drescher
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The star of The Nanny (I’m still waiting for her next sitcom) took her focus on health care and cancer (she is a uterine cancer survivor) to Capitol Hill yesterday to get Senators on board of the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010. The bill will eliminate c...[Read on] |
The Bottom Line of Women and Business in This Economy
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Where do women fit in today’s tumultuous economy? Some women are
fueling their entrepreneurial spirit to support their families, while
others blame men for financial crisisWomen in Business, Economy | 08/04/2009 11:35 am
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Times are tough bu...[Read on] |
Gee Whiz, Women Do Write Good Books
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Unlike the Publishers Weekly year end list which included no women, the NY Times has included a bunch of women on its 10 best list of 2009. In fact, 4 of the 5 fiction books are by women.
Here they are. Full list will appear in the December 13 book r...[Read on] |
Why employers should offer a running incentive
| I'm always amazed how running in the morning completely shapes the outlook on the rest of my day.Running (even the not so great ones) leaves me energetic and ridiculously happy all day a long. I'm probably 50 times more productive on days I run in...[Read on] |
Those Crucial Jobless Benefits? Thank Frances Perkins
| Great national pain is reflected in the latest U.S. jobless numbers. But Kirstin Downey says we can thank Frances Perkins--the unsung architect of unemployment insurance--for helping us get through these tough times.
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Jennifer's Body
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Jennifer's Body, the latest from 31-year-old feminist screenwriter Diablo Cody (of Juno fame), is hitting theaters September 18th and already it's causing quite the buzz. The Times ran an interesting story this weekend about how Cody and her crew tried to...[Read on] |
Witchhunt in Academia Spreads to Michigan
| • A conservative group in Michigan has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to gain access to the e-mails of labor-studies professors at three of the state’s public universities. A spokesman for the group said the request was not coordinated wit...[Read on] |
Choosing Sides in the Fox-Cablevision Controversy
| The standoff between media conglomerate News Corporation and cable provider Cablevision continues: For the third day in a row, millions of would-be television watchers in New York City and its suburbs were without access to the Fox network, which is owned...[Read on] |
Why is it so strange that male critics like movies about women?
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I read this blog post yesterday What does this say about U.S. manhood: Male critics actually like ‘Eat Pray Love’ by Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times and it didn’t really get to me enough to blog about it. But while I was tossing and turning in...[Read on] |
The commodification of female empowerment
| Have daughters supplanted sons as the repository of hope in tough economic times?
New York Times contributor Peggy Orenstein has noticed a trend across a whole range of sectors over the last several months from big-box stores to high-end fashion to wirel...[Read on] |
A woman gets her own theatre
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Great news. Rising star director Kate Whoriskey has been tapped by the Intiman Theatre in Seattle to take over as Artistic Director when current star director Barlett Sher leaves in 2010.
She will join a small club of female artistic directors in charg...[Read on] |
Miley Cyrus Versus the Chastity Cops, Round 340,982
| Decency! A thing that is in short supply, per the perma-incensed Parents Television Council. But according to this morning’s Times, the culture-policing nonprofit has fallen on hard times—just as $#*! My Dad Says, those naughty Glee kids, and a scanti...[Read on] |
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