- 1. "Weird Al" Yankovic Gets The Celebrity Treatment With New Biopic "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" Starring Daniel Radclif
- (Movies)
- "I could've easily set myself on fire,” “Weird Al” Yankovic tells me, dressed in one of his trademark Hawaiian shirts. Long gone are his iconic mustache and eyeglasses, revealing an earnest face that ...
- Created on 08 September 2022
- 2. These 3-Ingredient Fruit Sorbets Are Here to Cool You Right Off!
- (Eat Me)
- ... papaya for sorbet is the large Mexican variety with rich salmon-colored flesh, but the smaller golden Hawaiian papayas work just as well. Ripe papayas give slightly when gently squeezed and have a tropical ...
- Created on 25 July 2022
- 3. "Legends of Drag" Pays Homage To Drag Icons "Of A Certain Age" Who Paved The Way For The Queens of Today ...
- (Books)
- ... to wear two articles of men’s clothing under your drag or you’d go to jail immediately, or in Hawaii, where it was required “that men performing in drag had to wear a sign that said, ‘I am a boy.’” If ...
- Created on 21 June 2022
- 4. St Vincent Speaks to Carrie Brownstein About Their New Film "The Nowhere Inn," Their Feelings About Feminism, and the Dangers of Believing Your Own Hyp
- (Music)
- ... first know that you were a big fan of Camille Paglia? CB: [laughs] I think I’m the one that’s supposed to be asking the questions. So, where’d you get that hat? SV: I got it at Target in Hawaii. I ...
- Created on 30 November 2021
- 5. Netflix's "Avatar the Last Airbender" Prioritizes Asian American & Indigenous Representation In Recent Cast Updat
- (TV)
- ... on ABC’s Lost, CBS’s reboot of Hawaii-Five-0, and executive producer of The Good Doctor. Before his role in the Netflix adaptation, Kim voiced both General Fong and Hiroshi Sato in the Last Airbender franchise. ...
- Created on 04 November 2021
- 6. For Centuries, Halloween Was a Day for Young Women to Predict Their Future Husbands: A Look At the Unlikely Romantic History of All Hallow's Eve ...
- (General)
- ... dreams. “To know whether a woman will have a man she wishes, get two lemon peels,” declared The Hawaiian Gazette in 1895. “Wear them all day, one in each pocket. At night, rub the four posts of the bedstead ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 7. Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
- (Blog)
- ... 2021, Rock’s reality show MTV Following: Bretman Rock premiered on MTV’s YouTube channel and looked at the more raw, unfiltered side of his life in Hawaii. In June 2021, Rock was nominated for and received ...
- Created on 07 October 2021
- 8. You Can Enjoy the Kitschy Glamour of Tiki Cocktail Culture without the Gnarly Colonial Aftertaste
- (Eat Me)
- ... given exotic-sounding Hawaiian names, mugs were whittled into the shape of gods revered by indigenous people throughout the South Pacific islands, and patrons were served Chinese food—because, in mid-century ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 9. New Mexico Makes History, Electing All Women Of Color In Its House Delegation
- (Feminism)
- ... Fernandez, who will now represent the 3rd Congressional District. Republican Yvette Herrell, a member of Cherokee Nation, will represent the 2nd. In 1990, Hawaii became the first to elect all women of ...
- Created on 05 November 2020
- 10. Trump Is Back On His Birtherism Bullshit And Kamala Harris Is His Latest Target
- (Feminism)
- Donald Trump gained notoriety for falsely claiming that President Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was not a U.S. citizen and was lying about his birthplace. This statement was the genesis of the ...
- Created on 14 August 2020
- 11. The Women Of "Sesame Street" Share Their Behind-The-Scenes Storie
- (TV)
- ... of her character’s rapport with Oscar. “Grundgetta is the grouchy side of me,” she explains. “I was raised as a nice Hawaiian girl, but Grundgetta just cuts right through it and tells you exactly what’s ...
- Created on 17 July 2020
- 12. Jenny Slate Steps Away From Biracial "Big Mouth" Role: "Black Voices Must Be Hear
- (Entertainment)
- ... a character of Chinese and Hawaiian descent. Whitewashing continues to be a huge problem in the entertainment industry – and voice acting allows a certain level of anonymity, which only makes it worse. ...
- Created on 25 June 2020
- 13. Sleazy Landlords Request “Sexual Favors” Instead of Rent During COVID-19 Pandemic
- (Feminism)
- Government officials in Hawaii have noticed an increase in the number of women reporting landlords asking for sexual favors in exchange for rent. This suggests that landlords are using the COVID-19 ...
- Created on 13 April 2020
- 14. Tulsi Gabbard Has Got To Go
- (Feminism)
- ... change, I’m a dove,” she told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald last year. As a member of the military, Gabbard points to her experience serving in Iraq and the betrayal she felt by her own government as motivating ...
- Created on 19 December 2019
- 15. Planned Parenthood Forced Out of Title X, Loses Federal Funding
- (Feminism)
- ... opting out of federal funds will vary from state to state. “Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Oregon and Washington have said their states would not participate in Title X under the new rule,” according to the ...
- Created on 23 August 2019
- 16. Zero Waste Talks: Cassia Patel On How To Live In Harmony With Our Ocean
- (Living)
- ... and more groups taking steps to address it, there’s still a lot of work to do. Only three states—California, Hawaii, and now New York—have banned disposable bags. The flow of plastic into our waters remains ...
- Created on 02 July 2019
- 17. 12 Women and Non-Binary Asian Americans You Should Know About
- (Feminism)
- ... Via Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Congress Mazie Hirono (1947-Present), whose Japanese name is Keiko Hirono, is currently serving as a Senator representing Hawaii, making her the first woman Senator from ...
- Created on 31 May 2019
- 18. 5 Female Geniuses From History You Need To Know
- (Feminism)
- ... she become both the first woman and the first African-American to graduate from the University of Hawaii. Just casually breaking all the boundaries With those barriers firmly broken, Alice moved onto ...
- Created on 15 March 2019
- 19. Despite Success, Cast of "Big Little Lies" Still Had To Fight for Appropriate Wage
- (TV)
- ... Dae Kim and Grace Park, both of Korean heritage, walked away from Hawaii Five-O after CBS refused to match their pay to the pay of their white male co-stars Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan. On the brighter ...
- Created on 27 February 2019
- 20. Bryan Singer Preemptively Denies As-Yet-Unpublished Esquire Exposé Covering Decades Of Sexual Assault Accusations
- (Movies)
- ... include rape: in 2014, former child actor Michael F. Egan III filed a civil lawsuit against Singer. Egan said that in 1999, when he was 17, Singer flew him to Hawaii multiple times under the pretense of ...
- Created on 15 October 2018
