Ani DiFranco on Her Memoir, Hadestown , and Reckoning With the 1990s In her new book No Walls and the Recurring Dream , the folksinger grapples with her own history and the decade in which she was most famous.
The Feminist Paradox of Cathy Guisewite She made a wildly successful comic strip by and for women. But to her critics, she’s just another example of compromised feminism.
Lucy Dacus Is Writing Her Own History Her new album, Historian , is the work of a hopeful person highly attuned to a weary world.
This Show Has the Best Clothes on TV Right Now Thank goodness for the wardrobe on Amazon’s latest hit.
Rose Marie on Telling Off Sexual Harassers in the 1950s and Tweeting “I said, ‘You son of a bitch, you couldn’t get it up if the flag went by!’”
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June 14, 2017
I Nearly Screamed When I Rediscovered This Slightly Cheesy ’80s Scent It’s called Cinnabar, and it’s seductive and boozy and a little trashy.
high school tv showdown
Nov. 4, 2015
Better Show: My So-Called Life or Gossip Girl ? It’s the gone-too-soon kids of Liberty High vs. the stayed-too-long students of Constance Billard School for Girls.
Andrew Rannells on Girls and His Love for Lena Dunham and Nancy Meyers “Nancy [Meyers] to me is the ultimate, and it did not disappoint. It’s like 50 Shades of Cream on that set.”
Girls Recap: MFAches and PainsHannah’s adjusting to Iowa exactly how you’d expect her to.
Girls Season 4 Premiere Recap: It’s All Fluid“Iowa” is one of the strongest episodes the show has had yet.
‘Serial’s Sarah Koenig on Her Hit Podcast “I don’t know that I’ll ever be at peace with what we find or that there will be a definitive verdict.”
remembrances
Apr. 14, 2014
Gay Talese on Mad Men and the Sexual Revolution “Wife-swapping, key parties, bed hoppers, communes; that was all happening around that time.”
harvey danger
Oct. 2, 2008
Will We Ever Get to See ‘Killshot’? Maybe Not! After five years of delays, Weinstein has pushed back the release date of ‘Killshot.’ Does this movie even exist?
Aug. 4, 2006
Beirut: The Band How a 20-year-old blogosphere star is dealing with massive hype, brutal flops, and a suddenly awkward name.
June 22, 2006
Last-Minute Planners, Students, Workaholics, and the Jitney-Averse
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Take advantage of subway-accessible motorboat rental at Smitty’s Fishing Station on Jamaica Bay, […]
May 26, 2006
The Norah Jones Nobody Knows Jazz chanteuse secretly punk.