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1. Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour
Get ready to have some fun! Cyndi Lauper hits the road October 18 through December 5 for her first major tour in over a decade. The farewell tour, which will visit 23 cities, comes with the release of a documentary film, Let The Canary Sing, available on Paramount+, and a companion album of the same name. Both explore the Grammy-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning songwriter’s unusual career. Put on the YoTube video of Lauper and Patti Labelle performing “Time After Time” from the Patty Labelle show and she bop over to cyndilauper.com for tickets.
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2. Omni Loop
Mary-Louise Parker plays a quantum physicist, Zoya, who keeps dying over and over again every week. Somehow on her endless loop she stumbles into a gifted student played by Ayo Edebiri and they set out to repeatedly try to save Zoya’s life and solve time travel in the process. In theaters September 20.
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The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software program taught a generation to type, and Mavis Beacon became one of the most recognizable women in technology—but she never existed. The model who portrayed Beacon vanished years ago, and Director Jazmin Jones and Associate Producer Olivia McKayla Ross go on a search to find out what happened to the missing model and end up digging into a world of AI, race, sexism, and why the creation of this software character really matters. Playing in select cities anywhere from August 30, 2024 – September 13, 2024. Find more info by searching for the film on neonrated.com/films
4. The Goddess Party Performs The Parting of the Veils
The Goddess Party is an epic 40-women art choir backed by a six-piece all-female rock band featuring Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog) on drums and Betsy Wright (Ex Hex) on guitar. Plus BUST’s co-founder Laurie Henzel and Jules Abraham (our former events producer) lend their chops to the choir. From Le Tigre and PJ Harvey covers to Bulgarian field songs and original pieces, this choir does it all. And they are an art choir, so get ready for some visuals! This performance is also an incantation—a call for women to rise to power and cast a spell on the presidential election. You can watch a recording of the live stream here. And follow them for their next epic performance!
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5. Three Women on STARZ
First off, we get some full-frontal dick—a lot of it. Based on a true story and the New York Times best-selling book by Lisa Taddeo, this series follows Gia (Shailene Woodley) as she sets out on a road trip to write a book about women’s sex lives and ends up focusing on three very different women with very different needs. Starring Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, and Gabrielle Creevy. Get to know the women when the series drops September 13 on STARZ.
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6. High Potential on ABC and Hulu
Kaitlin Olson (from Always Sunny and the overlooked The Mick) stars as a not so straitlaced single mom with a really, really high IQ, a gift and a curse that makes her really, really good at solving crimes. She inadvertently teams up with detectives played by Daniel Sunjata and Judy Reyes (Claws) and solves crime as she causes a criminal amount of trouble. Catch the first season starting September 17.
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7. Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist on Peacock
Taraji P. Henson is giving us a lil’ taste of Cookie starting September 5 in Fight Night. She is back, deep in crime, taking no shit, and rocking that leopard print, this time as Gordon’s (Kevin Hart) wife, Vivian. Based on the true-crime podcast, the show, which also stars Samuel L. Jackson, takes you through the true story of the armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 fight. And this fight gets ugly.
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8. How to Die Alone on Hulu
On September 13, Natasha Rothwell (The White Lotus, Insecure) takes control of her own show as series creator, star, co-showrunner and executive producer. Her character Mel takes charge of her life following a very embarrassingly relatable near-death experience. She is determined to turn her life around from a broke airport employee who is afraid to fly to a woman in control of her destiny, finally taking flight and going after what she really wants.…but you know it isn’t going to be that easy.
9. Stranded Podcast on Audible
Taraji is not just on your screen; she is also in your ear holes. Henson costars in Stranded with the beloved Tracee Ellis Ross starting November 7. This comedy pod has a packed cast including Lamorne Morris, Ashley Nicole Black, Mikey Day, Zazie Beetz, Nicole Byer, Phylicia Rashad, Taye Diggs, and Whoopi Goldberg. Two old besties plan a girls’ trip to try to reconnect after 20 years, but their party boat crashes and they are the only survivors on a deserted island. They have no skills and a lot of resentment. How are they going to make it through this shit?
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10. Joy on Netflix
“We are here to give women choice, every choice.” Joy is the true story behind the birth of the world’s first “test-tube baby,” Louise Joy Brown, in 1978 and the pioneering scientists and women who kept going against threats and harassment to help develop IVF treatment. The film stars Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho), James Norton (Little Women), and Bill Nighy (Love Actually). Make the choice to watch this film when `it hits streaming November 22 and don’t forget to vote—our bodies depend on it.
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