Women's Issues

"Deflowered": Judy Chicago

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Murdered Paintings

Shunk-Kender, © Lichtenstein FoundationNiki de Saint Phalle shooting with a .22 rifle in the Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1961. ​ Everything on this week's list is either radical or rebellious, or hopelessly nostalgic about being radical and rebellious. 5. Revolutionizing the Sunset Strip The or ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the World's Sexiest Performance Artist

From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury design, this week's list feels particularly well-rounded. (Also check out our preview of Pacific Standard Time's Performance and Public Art Festival, which begins this week). 5. Italy in Westwood Galleria del Depo ... More >>

A Tubular Christmas Story

From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury design, this week's list feels particularly well-rounded. (Also check out our preview of Pacific Standard Time's Performance and Public Art Festival, which begins this week). 5. Italy in Westwood Galleria del Depo ... More >>

Is Pacific Standard Time Trying Too Hard?

My first official night of Pacific Standard Time started at a reception at Otis Art Institute's main gallery, where intrepid actress Lily Tomlin, the same Lily who filled Altman's Nashville with wry emotion and played opposite Dolly and Jane in Nine to Five, loudly announced "We're all listening now ... More >>

Judy Chicago: What I Learned From Male Chauvinists

My first official night of Pacific Standard Time started at a reception at Otis Art Institute's main gallery, where intrepid actress Lily Tomlin, the same Lily who filled Altman's Nashville with wry emotion and played opposite Dolly and Jane in Nine to Five, loudly announced "We're all listening now ... More >>

Judge Harry Pregerson: 9th Circuit decision harms asylum seekers

Ninth Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson has asylum seekers backs​People seeking asylum in the United States suffered a serious blow when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently voted not to review the case of a woman who had suffered genital mutilation in her homeland. That's according to Judge Ha ... More >>

Cal State Northridge Prof Says His Website Was Not About Thai Sex Tourism, Though It Certainly Appeared To Be

Kenneth Ng's site was not about Thai sex tourism, the prof says.​A Cal State Northridge professor's controversial Thai sex tourism site appeared to be back up recently after he was shamed into taking it down. Economics professor Kenneth Ng last week defended the site as being about "what it r ... More >>

Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender on her New Philosophical Movement, Butcherism: "I'll Take Feminism, Nabokov, Bulgakov and Theater and Mush It All In"

Ivan FernandezLe Butcherettes: Subverting everything! (even French grammar!)​ Mexico City's Le Butcherettes made their second appearance in Los Angeles this past Tuesday as the opening act for the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group at the Troubadour. The trio led by vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bend ... More >>

Othello

Ivan FernandezLe Butcherettes: Subverting everything! (even French grammar!)​ Mexico City's Le Butcherettes made their second appearance in Los Angeles this past Tuesday as the opening act for the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group at the Troubadour. The trio led by vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bend ... More >>

Women in the West

Ivan FernandezLe Butcherettes: Subverting everything! (even French grammar!)​ Mexico City's Le Butcherettes made their second appearance in Los Angeles this past Tuesday as the opening act for the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group at the Troubadour. The trio led by vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bend ... More >>

"Pop Culture Hacker" Jonathan McIntosh on "Buffy vs. Edward"

We love fan-made, mash-up videos. Whether they're anime music videos or strange juxtapositions of beloved TV shows, the creativity, humor and technical skill involved continues to impress us. But, when vidders, or fan video editors, use their skills to highlight criticism of various media, things st ... More >>

PICKY PICKY

We love fan-made, mash-up videos. Whether they're anime music videos or strange juxtapositions of beloved TV shows, the creativity, humor and technical skill involved continues to impress us. But, when vidders, or fan video editors, use their skills to highlight criticism of various media, things st ... More >>

SUSAN MOGUL AT JANCAR GALLERY

When Phil Silvers, Janis Joplin and Moses collide.

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When Phil Silvers, Janis Joplin and Moses collide.

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 129: Redlands Woman Found Dead in Van by Los Angeles Hospital Personnel

Redlands homicide detectives are investigating the strangling death of a 49-year-old woman after her estranged boyfriend drove to the Good Samaritan Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles -- with her body in his car. Redlands Police Department According to Redlands Police Department spokesma ... More >>

Yes Vagina, There is a Benefit

Redlands homicide detectives are investigating the strangling death of a 49-year-old woman after her estranged boyfriend drove to the Good Samaritan Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles -- with her body in his car. Redlands Police Department According to Redlands Police Department spokesma ... More >>

Sex Trade: Three Views of Erotica

Redlands homicide detectives are investigating the strangling death of a 49-year-old woman after her estranged boyfriend drove to the Good Samaritan Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles -- with her body in his car. Redlands Police Department According to Redlands Police Department spokesma ... More >>

I'm OK, You're Not

Redlands homicide detectives are investigating the strangling death of a 49-year-old woman after her estranged boyfriend drove to the Good Samaritan Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles -- with her body in his car. Redlands Police Department According to Redlands Police Department spokesma ... More >>

Drawing the Lines

Barbara Zucker, “Text Works”

Three at 18th Street

Barbara Zucker, “Text Works”

Upside Yo Head

All the ladies in the house say “hegemony”

The Moral Museum: Selections From the Bick Archive

All the ladies in the house say “hegemony”

¡Ask a Mexican! Uncivil Torta

All the ladies in the house say “hegemony”

I Am Not a Housewife

Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

Iron Miner’s Daughter

Charlize Theron gets some respect from men

10 Questions With Aretha Franklin

Charlize Theron gets some respect from men

Swept Away

Charlize Theron gets some respect from men

Bad Girls

Women critics in sexually retro America

Bar Fight

Moore versus Brosnan in Laws of Attraction

Life of a Whistleblower

Bob Mullally goes to prison for releasing cops’ domestic-violence records

The Back Story

Bob Mullally goes to prison for releasing cops’ domestic-violence records

Tough Roe to Hoe

Who will fight the next battle for choice?

Mommy, Ltd.

Bridget Jones, meet Kate Reddy

Review This Book or Else

The latest gripes from the "gun-toting lesbians"

The Feminine Mistake

Between a lark and a hard place

Out of the Frying Pan

After the Taliban, will Afghanistan’s women really be free?

V-Day Celebration

Sex, violence, RAWA and The Vagina Monologues

Babes in Armor

The women of Hollywood

Being Bridget Jones

Helen Fielding isn't -- really, truly

She's Baaaack!

Germaine Greer on Hillary, male aggression, foreplay in the '50s and more

Antin on Antin(ova)

Germaine Greer on Hillary, male aggression, foreplay in the '50s and more

What a Piece of Work Is Woman

Natalie Angier’s girl science

Find Her, Keep Her

Memoir as social history

Patriarch Games

Sex, AIDS and Machismo in Latin America

The High Cost of Bias

Gender gap persists at Sheriff’s Department

From Liberty Hill to the Living Wage

A brief history of Progressive Los Angeles

Anglo Pop

Helen Fielding's Single Woman

Marry Me Before I Get Fat

Elizabeth Wurtzel wants to be bad, but not all by herself

All the President's Flings

Let's separate the women from the girls