Caroline Ryder

Flying the Friendly Skies

Caroline Ryder
It’s the end of my 10-day trip back home to London, and my mother and I are eating cereal and watching breakfast TV. “Airports are in chaos this morning after police uncovered a massive plot to bomb several planes traveling from Britain to the U.S.,” says the BBC newscaster. “Reports......

Waisted

Caroline Ryder
t was in the 16th century that women first began to bind their waists and push their breasts heavenward with the help of some whalebones. Since then, the corset has taken many forms, eventually loosening its grip on women in the 1960s, when it fell out of fashion and slipped......
Cory Kennedy: Latter-day Bianca (Photo by Cobrasnake)

Cory's World

Caroline Ryder
Cory Kennedy, ubiquitous club urchin and object of desire for fashion-mag hags everywhere, is hanging with her buddies after The Like show at MoCA. One of them is designer Jeremy Scott. “Cory’s the It Girl!” he announces. Then, pointing to her boyfriend, nightlife photographer Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter, he adds,......

A + R = Cool

Caroline Ryder
“When you say ‘modern-design store,’ people often imagine a serious, stark gallery-like environment full of Scandinavian stainless steel and Alessi,” says Rose Apodaca, cofounder of the modern-design boutique A+R. “But we like to promote design that has a wink and a nudge. A sense of humor.” That explains the Lucite......
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My Name is Caroline and I'm a Slothaholic

Caroline Ryder
When I was younger I went to a relatively posh private school in London, full of high-achieving daughters who had DJ boyfriends and started nightclubbing at the age of 12. Despite their busy social lives, they always did their homework, and always lied about it. "Oh god, I haven't looked......
No more butch blues: Kat McIver

Queer Up

Caroline Ryder
Jennifer Post had a bad case of the butch blues. It began when she and her wife moved from the East Coast to image-obsessed L.A. Back home, she always kept her hair nondescript and product-free. Fashion was an alien concept — she was happiest in her uniform of plaid shirts,......
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Don't blow the flow at Oil Can Harry's. (Photo by Marc Castleman)

You're Here, You're Queer, Now Let's Go Line Dancing

Caroline Ryder
Whether you’re gay, straight or just plain alcoholic, the bar scene can get pretty tired after a while. Luckily, there are vast amounts of queer fun to be had in this town, and it doesn’t have to begin with a bottle of tequila and end with a booty call. You......
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Life's a Rollercoaster

Caroline Ryder
Riding rollercoasters at midnight with a crew of teenage skate kids was the last thing I expected to be doing tonight, but hey - sometimes you just gotta go with the flow. Here's how it happened - I had MySpaced Danny Minnick, the pro-skateboarder turned cinematographer, to ask if he......
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What's Cookin' With The Black Panthers

Caroline Ryder
Today, I spent two and a half hours on the phone to Bobby Seale, the 70-year-old co-founder of the beret-wearing, gun-toting, Little Red Book-waving Black Panthers, the small group of civil rights activists dubbed 'the biggest threat to American security' by J Edgar Hoover in the 1960's. I was interviewing......
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Sometimes It Sucks To Be A Woman

Caroline Ryder
Being a woman - sometimes it sucks. We bleed, for starters. Then our bodies create the cottage cheese-like substance called cellulite that seeps like malevolent sludge outwards and downwards from our thighs. And in the cruelest joke of all, our entire history of binges, diets and babies can clearly be......