The Power of the Headset -- Inside the WGA Awards
Award Season is in full swing leading up to the 86th annual Academy Awards on March 2nd. Recently, the Writers Guild of America held its own award show honoring outstanding achievement in writing for...
View ArticleThe Square: A Portrait of Change in Motion
In theaters and online in all Netflix territories, Oscar-nominated documentary The Square traces the trajectory of the Egyptian revolution to the present day through the stories of a group of diverse...
View ArticleATTENTION! Don't Leave Us in the Cold
ATTENTION! Again this week, America learns the lesson of preparedness. Communities across the southeast were unprepared for the major winter storm, which hammered them with snow and ice. The result was...
View ArticleThe Day I Met Johnny Cash (and Sold Him a Nirvana Record)
Watching Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson perform "The Highwayman" during the Grammys last week, signature song of their country supergroup, The Highwaymen, conjured up the one lone memory I have...
View ArticleMy Take on Philomena
Tracing my roots back to the Irish diaspora of the mid-19th century, I mused, as I watched this film, on what a strange world we came from -- where nuns pledge to an unknown Christ that they will not...
View ArticleDestroy Nate Allen: A Love Story
"Glow In The Dark" by Destroy Nate Allen, published with permission from the album 'Glow In The Dark'. At some point in your life you'll meet a couple who just so completely gets it right, it...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Exposes Super Hypocrisy on Breasts vs. Chests
Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction caused a national meltdown at the 2004 Super Bowl. Yet the Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't even bother bringing a wardrobe to Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show....
View ArticleSuper Glam Fashion Week
"Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination....". Ah... the magnificence of those simple songs lyrics from my childhood came rushing forth the second I walked into Giuseppe Zanotti's...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Message Behind Beyonce's 'Pretty Hurts' Video
A little while ago, I was skyping with my little sister Valerie -- always a highlight of my day as she's currently in Cameroon, where she works and where her boyfriend lives. As it goes with sisters,...
View ArticleWhy I Can't Be My Son's Mother
By Shannon Shelton Miller My 6-month-old wouldn't smile for his stage mom, no matter what faces she made or how much she cooed in his ear. So the photographer asked for my help. I positioned myself...
View ArticleThe Many Faces of Meyer Lansky
In 1977 Grandpa Meyer and I were at Wolfie's in North Miami Beach, and I noticed two young boys in yarmulkes looking over at us. I was standing behind Grandpa when the boys walked up. One said, "Hey,...
View Article"I Have No Sympathy."
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of...
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Movie Review: The Monuments Men
Having been mentioned as an Oscar contender for 2013, George Clooney's The Monuments Men was abruptly bumped from awards season to this week because, according to the press release, Clooney needed...
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The Biggest Loser: Rein in Outrage Over Winner's New Body
UPDATE: Rachel's height was still speculation when this article was written. Sources now report that she is 5'4. The post has been updated to reflect this. Few things make me uncomfortable or queasy....
View ArticleAfternoon of a Faun: A Life of Dancer Tanaquil LeClercq
Tanaquil LeClercq was a lithe, angular beauty, a dancer who graced ballet until polio struck, paralyzing her and ending her career at age 27. Nursing her to a life beyond this disease, a crippler in...
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How I Lost My Job and Found My Way to Sundance
At 4 p.m. on the Friday before Thanksgiving, I was calmly called into a closed-door meeting and let go from my job. After four years of climbing from editorial assistant to executive editor at the...
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Why Her 'Biggest Loser' Win Left Me at a Loss
This post originally appeared on Bustle. By Meredith Turits I'm not a doctor. I'm not trained to know that someone's "too thin" or "unhealthy" just by looking at him or her. But there's one thing I am,...
View ArticleMarilyn -- In Her Own Words! Sort Of.
"TODAY I am thirty-six. I've officially reached the age that Hollywood considers a has-been. All I know how to be is Marilyn Monroe. It's the only thing I've ever really been successful at. Time is...
View Article21 Secrets for Your 20s
1. Never looking at your budget and never making a budget is the exact same thing. 2. The possibility for greatness and embarrassment both exist in the same space. If you're not willing to be...
View ArticlePussy Riot Women Travel Around the World to Promote Justice Zone and "Inspect...
This will be about Nadia Tolokonnikova, but ... without the stories about "the underwear with pockets" for memory flash cards. During Pussy Riot protests: If women got arrested, they hid the video...
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