Jessica P. Ogilvie

Venues like the  Ace Hotel  Credit: Photo by Ed Carrasco

How Palm Springs Became a Bachelorette Party Destination

Across the nation, affianced young women and their ladyfriends have gained a reputation as puke-stained, shallow monsters wielding tiaras, dick straws and the ability to shriek high enough to break glass. Until recently, these sorority-like shenanigans were contained in Las Vegas or Cabo, cities known for encouraging the worst kind......
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Hollywood Keeps Women Out of Movie Directing, So the ACLU is Stepping In

The ACLU today demanded that state and federal agencies investigate the secrecy-shrouded hiring practices of the top Hollywood studios, talent agencies and networks, with an eye to bringing gender discrimination charges against them for their persistent failure to mentor, hire, recruit or promote female directors. In 2013, just 1.9 percent......
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How Hollywood Keeps Out Women

In 2005, Diana Ossana was in the green room at the Venice Film Festival, elated. Brokeback Mountain, the film she'd shepherded into being after reading Annie Proulx's short story in The New Yorker eight years earlier, had just won the Golden Lion, top prize at the festival. Ossana, who optioned......