"sell-your-car" Articles & Blogs:
Palin, Clinton Comic Sell Out
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Bluewater Productions can hardly believe that their ‘Female Force’ series has done so wellPalin, Clinton Comics | Today 1:00 pm
Sarah Palin is hugely popular among comic-book readers.
Bluewater Productions, a graphic-novel company, yeste...[Read on] |
Clinton Faces Tough Sell of Two-State Solution During Mideast Tour
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Clinton says Hamas must stop violence and recognize Israel, pressures Israelis to open Gaza border to provide relief to peoplePost | Today 9:40 am
Hillary Clinton may have received more than kisses from Israeli leaders on her first official trip to the ...[Read on] |
Why Won't the US Build the National Women's History Museum?
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The answer: because two senators are holding up the vote that would allow it. Yep, you read that right: Senators Tim Coburn (R – OK) and Jim DeMint (R – SC) have placed a hold on the bill (which the House already passed), which would sell a pi...[Read on] |
Loving Diablo Cody
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Not matter whether you love or hate her work, or love or hate her persona, she really is one of the only women working in the film business who is not afraid to talk about feminism and Hollywood.
She spoke this past weekend in SF at a screening of Jenn...[Read on] |
Clinton Global Initiative: Hillary Clinton on Food Security
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I have had the opportunity to see a lot of really powerful speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting. Talk about internalized patriarchy: I was most excited to see Presidents Obama and Clinton speak, and though I was excited to see Se...[Read on] |
The LFL Sells Sex, Not Sport
| During the recent sport sociology conference (NASSS) I heard inspired critiques of sport and had many great conversations about sport media and female athletes. Ironically, I returned home today to this tweet by the Lingerie Football League.
RT...[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] |
Leaked Messages from Palin Aide Bash Conservative Bloggers, Bristol Palin, etc.
| The Daily Caller published a series of Twitter direct messages authored by Rebecca Mansour, Sarah Palin’s digital henchman, speechwriter, and the founder of Conservatives4Palin.com. The leaker, characterized by the Daily Caller as an “online-only acqu...[Read on] |
WB sells Supergirl the brand but not the movie
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Usually when you read a story in Variety about merchandising, it’s about how a studio is going to create merchandising tie-ins for an upcoming film.
Now it looks like Warner Brothers’ consumer products division is going to by-pass the theatres and se...[Read on] |
iTunes gets rights to sell digital Beatles music
| At long last, Beatles fans everywhere are smiling. Apple's iTunes store will start carrying music by the Fab Four in a move that will fill a glaring gap in the collection of the world's largest music retailer. The deal with iTunes was delayed in part by o...[Read on] |
Does sex sell women's sport? (and is it worth the trouble to find out?)
| Originally, I had tried to put down some thoughts so I could comment on a post at WTS. But they have grown too numerous for a comment, apparently, so I share them here. (Note: You may want to listen to the interview before reading on.)
In the int...[Read on] |
Can Heather Graham Sell the Public Option?
| A new TV ad produced by MoveOn.com and starring Heather Graham seeks to make the case for the public option as a critical—and widely supported—component of health-care reform using a somewhat silly track-and-field conceit. “What does Hea...[Read on] |
The voice of a studio head- Amy Pascal talks to The Wrap
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It’s not very often that you get to hear, really hear, a studio chief’s take on the business. Sharon Waxman, founder and editor-in-chief of The Wrap got Amy Pascal to answer some questions and talk about the state of the movies. It’s also good...[Read on] |
Ways to Stretch Your Golf Budget
| If you’re like most of us in today’s troubled economic times you are finding it difficult to play as much golf as you would like and to afford the necessary equipment. Certainly there more important things in this world than playing golf, like eating,...[Read on] |
Forget Tupperware: Gold Parties Offer Fast Cash
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Women are getting together to sell unwanted bling to pay household billsPost | Today 11:50 am
Need to pay off your credit card balance? The cable bill? An upcoming mortgage payment? Many women are cleaning out their jewelry boxes and turning discarded r...[Read on] |
Thinking of Acai for weight loss? Think again.
| So when acai was making the rounds as a super fruit, I needed to find out more. As it turns out, yep, it’s a berry! It is different from some of the other wonderful berries like raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, and strawberries because it does no...[Read on] |
You Cannes not be serious! Speaking out about the lack of women directors
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The rumblings of dismay and dissatisfaction have coalesced and found a voice. Filmdirecting4women, an organization that supports women directors out of England has organized a petition: You Cannes Not Be Serious to show our concerted pissedoffness abo...[Read on] |
Sad Broadway News: The Miracle Worker to Close
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Just read the news that The Miracle Worker starring Abigail Breslin and Allison Pill is going to close next Sunday. It didn’t get the greatest reviews, but a friend who saw it said the audience was full of girls who adored it.
I think it was hard to ...[Read on] |
Feel-Good of the Day: First Women-Run Pharmacy in North America Opens
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Sadly, most of the time pharmacists are mentioned on Feministing it's regarding "conscience clause" folks - anti-choice pharmacists (and their buddy Bush) who believe it's their "religious or moral" right to refuse to sell contraception to women even th...[Read on] |
Women Boxers from Gleason’s create art for show
| I just read Meredith Deliso’s article on YourNabe.com about 15 women from Gleason’s gym in New York who worked together to create mosaics which will be sold at an art show to benefit a Brooklyn-based community group, Girls for Gender Equity.
What’s...[Read on] |
HS sports: 'one of the next great markets'
| According to rankings, the biggest high school football game in the country tonight will be played in South Florida tonight and will -- courtesy of ESPN -- be aired for the nation to watch. Marketers from Nike and other major brands will be watching becau...[Read on] |
America's Next Top Model Contestant Over 6 Feet Tall and Weighs Less Than 100 Lbs.
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Wow.
This isn't right: she's 6'2 , weighs less than 100 pounds, and shows up to audition for Tyra Banks' ANTM in a corset. Um...wat?
Time for this show, which has tried so hard in recent season to break color and beauty norms in the fashion industry (...[Read on] |
Australia's first female Prime Minister
| Australia appointed its first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard, who vowed to end division over a controversial mining tax, resurrect a carbon trade scheme and call elections within months.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd made an emotional and ignomin...[Read on] |
Morningstar Commission Event: Inside the Hollywood Jewish Noggin
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The stories of Hollywood’s founding are legendary. The twitter version for the uninitiated: A bunch of jewish immigrants migrated from NY to LA and created this new industry. If you want the real story read Neal Gabler’s How the Jews Invented Holl...[Read on] |
How boxing is better than 11 other sports and hobbies
| Boxing is like playing underwater chess in a swimming pool filled with sharks. You have to keep moving, it’s hard to concentrate, and you feel like you just can’t get enough air.
But I love it anyway, and whenever someone asks me why I can’t take u...[Read on] |
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