"town" Articles & Blogs:
The Town's Rebecca Hall on Crying, Screaming, and Going Crazy
| Rebecca Hall and Ben Affleck in The Town. Photograph by Claire Folger. � 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures. Ben Affleck’s second film as a director is The Town, in which he also stars, playing a bank robber who, thanks to...[Read on] |
Oscar Fashion: Classic Hollywood
| Tina Fey and Diane Kruger. Some leading ladies (and best-supporting-actress nominees) opted to channel old Tinsel Town glamour for the walk down the red carpet tonight.
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Carrie Bradshaw's $230,000 Outfit
| Which one of these S.A.T.C.2 outfits costs more than the others? By now you've probably heard that the costume budget for Sex and the City 2 was estimated at more than $10 million. But what if you wanted to re-create just one of Carrie’s looks, for brun...[Read on] |
A Powerful Noise - The Impact of One Voice
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Take part in an exclusive International Women’s Day event on March 5, 2009, featuring the acclaimed documentary film, A Powerful Noise, followed by a live town hall discussion to 450 movie theatres.
Town hall panelists include former U.S. Secretary of...[Read on] |
Toronto International Film Festival: “The Town” of Classy, Awards-Season Films
| Chris Cooper in The Town. � 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures. Every year, after a scorched summer that denies the parched cineaste’s thirst for Film with a capital “F” (not to be confused with “Content,” which is wha...[Read on] |
Children Targeted as Witches in the Congo
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BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo (WOMENSENEWS)--Chance Chubaka's family lives in Chimbunda, a suburb of this bustling, impoverished town on the south shores of Lake Kivu. But by the time Chance was 9 years old, she no longer shared their home.
&q...[Read on] |
iPhone Software Update Will Address Creepy Location-Tracking Mechanism
| Last week we were concerned about the creepy way our iPhone was tracking and storing our locations. Would the iPhone reveal to a friend, perhaps via a rogue text message, that we were not “on the way” to the restaurant across town at eight p.m., but i...[Read on] |
Shania Twain carries Olympic torch
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Country singer Shania Twain carried the Olympic torch in arctic conditions in her childhood hometown on New Year’s Day, as the torch relay continued ahead of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Twain carried the torch for 400 meters and lit a cauldr...[Read on] |
Lady Gaga Invests in New York City Restaurant
| W Magazine is reporting that Lady Gaga and her parents, Baron and Baroness Gaga, have signed on as silent partners at the Upper West Side American restaurant Vince and Eddie’s. “When she’s in town she likes to come here with her friends because it's...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Starting Somewhere
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We drove through Forrest City on the way to St. Francis National Forest because I was curious to see the town, which had been described to me as one of the most segregated places in America. The downtown is a ghost town almost on the level of Cairo, but...[Read on] |
Pilot Pickups and Renewals 5/18
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Here’s what some of the women’s shows for next season will be:
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Eastwick- a drama based on the John Updike novel and 1987 film centering on three single women who live in the New England town of Eastwick. After a crisis bonds them together as fri...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: When the levee breaks
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Monday morning, I drove down to Rosedale and headed first to the library, where Martha the librarian gave me an excellent orientation to the town and its history. Turns out this area was a big center for making moonshine during Prohibition — instead o...[Read on] |
Drama-Free Health Reform Town Hall Meeting: Almost Shocking Enough for a Headline
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by Thao Nguyen, Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
I have to admit it. I was up for a fight. I had borrowed my co-worker Robin’s flip camera and brought along my own digital camera. My co-worker Candace and I jumped into a cab and...[Read on] |
E-Readers: Which One to Chose?
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E-readers have been gaining a lot of ground lately and I know they have a lot of benefits: lower cost, eco friendly (less trees), compact, and with wireless downloads possible, the Internet is at your fingertips! There’s no longer a need to feel embarra...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Darkness in Vicksburg
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It was a rainy and gray weekend, and I spent most of it at Poverty Point Reservoir State Park, doing some much needed housekeeping (my computer was misbehaving, laundry needed doing) at this quite wonderful spot that has free wifi and laundry and good s...[Read on] |
Good Girl Power and Bad Girl Power
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Yesterday, I was so happy to read that Ellen Page is going to write and produce a comedy for HBO with her buddies Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillmann. It’s called Stitch N’ Bitch and
“follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brook...[Read on] |
Reese stands up for women
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Reese Witherspoon was in DC yesterday talking about the need to stop violence against women. She represents Avon which came to town to give a $500,000 grant to the State Department’s Fund for Global leadership.
One of her quotes:
I think when you ha...[Read on] |
What to Do During a Disaster
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In these dog days of the summer, disasters, natural or otherwise, happen every day. Though only 1,000 tornadoes occur annually, and a significantly smaller number of hurricanes, the chances of one hitting your town are higher than you might think. But tha...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: The earth remains forever
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(Editors Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian has developed an obsession with the Mississippi River: especially the impact of the river on the development of American culture. She recently embarked on a year long odyssey traveling the len...[Read on] |
Fresh Air Fund looking to book host families for Summer 2011
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Chances are you’re already looking forward to summer. You may be going to camp, taking a vacation with your family, or playing in a summer sports league. But not all kids are as lucky. Each summer, the Fresh Fund provides New York City kids a chance t...[Read on] |
Julia Reed, Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama: A Lesson We Should All Learn
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He was right. It is a tough gig …Julia Reed | 05/18/2009 3:15 pmI did not attend my college graduation. Instead, I spent the morning working at Newsweek’s Washington bureau (where I toiled during the six years it took me to get through college –...[Read on] |
My first Final Four
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Generally when I go to a women’s sporting event, I’m sitting on press row reporting on the competition or on the sidelines taking photographs. Rarely do I get to attend a game – no less a championship game – as a fan. Well I got that chance last w...[Read on] |
How a girl picks her 2010 World Cup brackets
| Okay, I’m a game late to the party here, the opening match was this morning. But I figured I better jump on the bandwagon and put my predictions on the line… it just makes the tournament that much more fun!
Here’s are the rosters, for reference: h...[Read on] |
Revenge of the Ghetto Hockey Mom
| I have been hearing so much from governor Sarah Palin ever since her visit to New York City a few days ago. I am sure that by now you’ve heard the jokes that talk shot host David Letterman made about her daughter. It wasn’t nearly Letterman’s best m...[Read on] |
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