"pj-harvey" Articles & Blogs:
Q&A;: English Chanteuse Anna Calvi on Her Debut Album and Upcoming Tour
| Anna Calvi. Photograph by Maisie Cousins.With her blood-red lips, pulled back hair, Flamenco-style blouses and wounded voice, Anna Calvi is the kind of chanteuse that David Lynch would throw a hot, white spotlight on. She’s a modern take on the Jazz age...[Read on] |
Rockin’ With the Boys: The Women of Punk
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Whoever said women can’t rock and roll never heard of these musical punk rock sirens. Armed with guitars and a “we’re not gonna take it” attitude, these women took on the musical world and earned their places as punk rock goddesses.
PJ Harvey
PJ...[Read on] |
The Super Bowl and Glee: Very Popular Culture
| • The Super Bowl was the most popular program in television history, and the post-game Glee performed well too, attracting more than 26 million viewers. [The Hollywood Reporter/The Hollywood Reporter] • Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) will soon abdi...[Read on] |
Bryan Burrough Reports that Disney Will Pay the Weinsteins a Settlement of Over $75 Million
| Photograph by Victor Demarchelier. Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough reports that, “after several months of negotiations, Disney quietly agreed to a settlement in which it will pay the Weinstein Company $32.5 million in cash, hand over it...[Read on] |
Billie Jean King honored with Medal of Freedom award by President Barack Obama
| Billie Jean King honored with Medal of Freedom award by President Barack Obama
Billie Jean King would love to head to the tennis court at the White House after she receives the Medal of Freedom.
But the tennis great hasn’t hit balls for nearly a year ...[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] |
Orange Women’s Fiction Nominees
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I love listing awards that focus on women cause we always get exposed to so many women we otherwise would probably never hear of. Here’s this year’s longlist for the Orange Women’s Fiction Prize. Clearly you can tell from the list there are some w...[Read on] |
WPS: Bruised, Battered But Still Kicking
| WPS rang in Year Two with promise and optimism. Season ticket sales were reportedly up 15% from last year, commitment from local sponsors had increased, eight franchises were back in the fray – including two debutantes, each squad had been bolstered by ...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office- April 3
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No wide women-centric releases this week, but Sunshine Cleaning continues to roll out across the country. (Disclaimer: I worked on outreach to women for the film) New locations include: Omaha; Grand Rapids; Lansing; Flint; Kalamazoo; Richmond; Norfolk; ...[Read on] |
Jane Campion gets screwed by the Academy
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You all know that I am a big fan of Jane Campion and Bright Star. I’m not hiding it at all. Here is a woman who made a really great movie after her last movie In the Cut got a devastating reception from all circles. She took some time, regrouped a...[Read on] |
WPS All-Star Weekend II: WPS Awards Ceremony through Kick-Off
| I’ve just arrived home in San Francisco and am about to start working on some video footage from the All-Star Awards dinner. But before I do, I thought it would be nice to pick up where I ended my blog yesterday and share a bit more from the WPS All-St...[Read on] |
Playwright Marsha Norman talks about gender inequity in the theatre
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Marsha Norman is one of our best known female playwrights. Her play ‘night Mother won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, and she has also written the book for the musicals The Secret Garden and The Color Purple.
She recently went out on a limb and talked abou...[Read on] |
Battle of the Sexes: Fall Movie Battles to Come
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Fall is the time of year when you can catch the soon-to-be award-winning films on the big screen. Despite the strong list of Oscar worthy gems this fall you also have those fun genre movies we all like to enjoy in between. There will still be battles betw...[Read on] |
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