- 1. Beth Ditto Talks Switch To Acting, and Latest Role In The Country Music Drama "Monarch." Plus, New Music From Gossip? ...
- (TV)
- ... about to appear in what’s arguably her splashiest project to date. She has a starring role in Monarch, which is about a country music dynasty led by matriarch Dottie Roman (Susan Sarandon) and her husband, ...
- Created on 12 September 2022
- 2. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
- (Entertainment)
- ... the biggest readers in the country. To think that we wouldn’t want to read something light or uplifting or read an espionage book or read a romance or read about a family—it’s really ridiculous.” Robinson ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 3. Celebrated Historian Bettany Hughes Helps Us Face The Future More Fearlessly On BUST's "Poptarts" Podca
- (Poptarts)
- ... Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire, liberates the goddess of love from all the tired romantic cliches that she’s been saddled with over the centuries and reveals how her radical feminine energy ...
- Created on 08 October 2020
- 4. Alison Roman, Chrissy Teigen, and The Cool Girl Trap
- (Entertainment)
- I own precisely four cookbooks — both of Chrissy Teigen’s and both of Alison Roman’s. They have guided me through becoming a young adult and learning to cook for my loved ones, whether it’s making Teigen' ...
- Created on 11 May 2020
- 5. “Rough Magic” Is A Fierce, Feminist Adventure
- (Books)
- ... a journey that becomes at once an exploration of the self and a critical look at the notion of empire. The thread of her haughty American competition, a woman named Devan, as well as a potential romance ...
- Created on 16 August 2019
- 6. A Look At Ladies' Shawls In Classic 19th Century Literature
- (Style)
- ... closing, I will add that for an author of historical romance a shawl can be a wonderful prop. How many times has a critical conversation been overheard by a young lady who has returned to a room to retrieve ...
- Created on 15 January 2019
- 7. Lucilla: The Ex-Empress Who Tried To Murder Her Brother
- (Living)
- ... schemer extrodinare? Hell yes! The daughter of acclaimed Emperor Marcus Aerilius, Lucilla was just one in a line of Roman political powerhouses. As such, she was quickly married off. Daddy Emperor picked ...
- Created on 14 January 2019
- 8. I Was Promised Queer “Star Wars” And I Got Queer “Star Wars”
- (Movies)
- ... Romantic feelings with a sentient droid exist purely in the realm of sci-fi. The animated series Futurama has an episode dedicated to “robosexuals” entitled "Proposition Infinity." Ender Wiggin of Ender’s ...
- Created on 25 May 2018
- 9. 11 New Books By Women To Read This Summer
- (Books)
- ... romantic desires of British and American women. Author Carol Dyhouse, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex, takes a specific catalog of post-1800s pop culture and considers the ways in which ...
- Created on 10 July 2017
- 10. Nasty Women Tour of the Met Spotlights History's Nastiest Wome
- (Arts)
- Julia Mamaea, the first official Empress of the Roman Empire The Metropolitan Museum of Art can sometimes be a little overwhelming. With so much to see, it's hard to know where to look, and harder still ...
- Created on 11 April 2017
- 11. A Response To Steve King's 'Somebody Else's Babies' Tw
- (Living)
- ... Greeks — specifically Athens — and the Romans, we would not have Western civilization. Let's start with Athens, the cradle of Western civilization. Athens was doing great til it got cocky and decided ...
- Created on 29 March 2017
- 12. On The Appeal Of Wartime Romance Novels, From Regency To WWII
- (Books)
- A war on foreign soil. Dashing heroes in uniform. Plucky heroines who keep the home fires burning. Sound familiar? It should. The very things that lend richness to romances set in Regency-era England ...
- Created on 08 February 2017
- 13. 10 Things We Learned From Starting A Female Dating Collective
- (Sex)
- ... triumphant: through her new panty purchases, Roxy found she had a unique opportunity to reinvent herself. She wrote, “There was so little I could control, in my romantic life, as well as other parts of ...
- Created on 31 January 2017
- 14. 23 New Albums You Need To Get In Your Earholes This Fall
- (Music)
- ... Magnuson’s third solo album, Dream Girl, is billed as “a surreal dreamscape of spoken word and song,” and that’s exactly what she delivers. Tracks like “Bromance Nightmare,” “The Enchanted Forest,” and ...
- Created on 17 October 2016
- 15. How 'Penny Dreadfuls' Caused Moral Pani
- (Books)
- ... romances, and detective stories in Victorian pulp fiction took shape in the novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, the types of stories once vilified during the late-Victorian era are ...
- Created on 26 July 2016
- 16. This Blacklisted Nude Model Inspired New York's Most Famous Statue
- (Arts)
- ... wearing colorful scarves on her head and sometimes roller skating into town with the aid of a lawnmower to help her keep her balance. This romantic disappointment seemed to trigger a downward mental ...
- Created on 08 April 2016
- 17. 'EVERYTHING IS COPY Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted': BUST Revie
- (Movies)
- ... for films that have become defining for their genre, like When Harry Met Sally..., You’ve Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle. She is the reason that the Empire State Building is so goddamn romantic. Ephron ...
- Created on 21 March 2016
- 18. 10 Ferocious Female Pirates That Put the Arrr in Grrrl
- (Feminism)
- ... ship was captured by Calico Jack (John Rackman) and Anne Bonny and they forced her to join their crew. Rackman and Bonny believed Read to be a man. It wasn't until Bonny confessed possible romantic feelings ...
- Created on 18 March 2016
- 19. Jason Sudeikis Talks Tumbledown, SNL and Feminism: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- ... everybody talks about the 90’s being the heydays of romantic comedies. For me, it had sort of the feel of a Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn film or something like His Girl Friday, where the two were bickering ...
- Created on 19 February 2016
- 20. A 14-Year-Old Libyan Refugee Tells Her Story
- (Movies)
- ... variously ruled the country before it became a part of the Roman Empire. Libya was an early centre of Christianity, but during the seventh century, Islam arrived with the Arabs. They merged with the local ...
- Created on 14 September 2015
