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Beyoncé stylist, Zerina Akers Collaborates with Barbie Celebrating Black-Female Voices
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(Entertainment)
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... a girl boss strutting down Manhattan with her tanned-heeled boots paired with an orange sweater vest and gold bracelet. A trendsetter mixing elements of fur and a modern cocktail dress with orange hops ...
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Created on 02 March 2023
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From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
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(Entertainment)
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... at them, but she was also giving them equal light.” A few years later, he moved to Manhattan after transferring to N.Y.C.’s School of Visual Arts. “I went to Wigstock, like, the second or third day that ...
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Created on 16 June 2022
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Farewell to Ronnie Spector, One Of The Original Bad Girls Of Rock & Roll Who Brought Edge and Flavor to 1960s Girl Groups
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(Music)
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... Urban legend has it that Johnny Ramone would sit front row at Ronnie’s shows in small venues around Manhattan as she launched her solo career in the ’70s, so moved by her singular, valentine voice he’d ...
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Created on 18 January 2022
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Bridget Everett’s Brilliant HBO series “Somebody Somewhere,” About a Midwestern Gal in Midlife Crisis, is Definitely Going to Be Your New Favorite Show
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(TV)
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... of her sister, finds herself back in the midwestern town of Manhattan, Kansas, where she grew up, and where she is surrounded by all the same family drama and dysfunction of her childhood. (Everett herself ...
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Created on 14 January 2022
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Joan Didion and Me: How the Writer's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" Showed Me The Power of a Woman's Voice, in the Literary World and Bey
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(Feminism)
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... popular opinion and pointed out something truly eye-opening and original. In 1979, she wrote a scathing critique of Woody Allen’s beloved films, Manhattan and Annie Hall, in the New York Review of Books, ...
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Created on 11 January 2022
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Sex And The City's Spinoff Raises the Question: "Where Are All The Other Shows About Middle-Aged Women
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(TV)
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... That…, will premiere its first two episodes on December 9.
The 10-episode series will reunite us with Manhattan’s most fabulous friends: Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda (alas, minus Kim Cattrall as Samantha). ...
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Created on 18 November 2021
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For The Gworls is a Black-Trans Led Collective That Creates Curated Parties and Events to Fundraise For Black Trans Lives
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(Feminism)
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... is about to throw her first fundraising event in Manhattan. The evening’s venue is The Standard East Village, NO BAR, which is decorated with round lighting fixtures, mirrored walls and sky blue semicircular ...
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Created on 16 November 2021
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Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
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(TV)
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... Of course, her character was unceremoniously murdered for knowing too much, but Brosnahan’s path to stardom had already been laid. Her next role, on Manhattan, as the wife of a physicist working on the ...
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Created on 07 April 2021
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Lana Del Rey's "Chemtrails Over the Country Club" Is Her Least Controversial Album — And One Of Her Be
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(Music)
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... picturesque suburbs of Lake Placid, N.Y., and attending the $65K-a-year Kent School, Del Rey moved to the Manhattan Mobile Home trailer park in Bergen, New Jersey in her early twenties, and she has been ...
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Created on 24 March 2021
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8 AAPI Organizations To Support Right Now
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(Feminism)
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... dedication to helping Asian American seniors struggling with food insecurity has helped them to reach those in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Donate here.
5. Asian Pacific COVID Recovery Fund ...
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Created on 24 March 2021
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Genya Ravan’s “I Who Have Nothing” Melds Gold, Gravel, And Guts
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(Music)
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... band, not just 'great for women.' We owned Manhattan.”
Ravan was just getting started. In 1969, she and partners Aram Schefrin and Mike Zager formed ambitious groove-rock band Ten Wheel Drive.
The band ...
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Created on 05 February 2021
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Fran Lebowitz Views New York Through The Lens Of Its Past In Scorsese's "Pretend It's A Ci
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(TV)
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... it you live in, or how shitty your eighth-floor studio walk-up is. It’s about fortitude and tenacity.
Manhattan at night, photographed along West 45th Street. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Let it be ...
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Created on 04 February 2021
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This Unapologetic Street Art Series Puts Queer POC Front and Center
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(Arts)
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... three intimate, non-sexualized poses meant to convey pure, unapologetic love—that she pasted on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2018.
Through her art, Toruño hopes to start a conversation and inspire ...
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Created on 16 October 2020
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A Lady, Liberated: Julia Lindon On Depicting An Honest Coming Out Story In Her New Short Film
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(Movies)
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... uses iconic LBGTQ+ signposts like the West Village in Manhattan, once called the ‘Gay Village,’ shots of the Stonewall Inn, and the inclusion of a lesbian bar to cement all the newness of Shea’s coming ...
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Created on 14 October 2020
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Controversial Medusa Statue Reimagines Her Myth and Reignites Conversations Around #MeToo
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(Arts)
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... gifting it to Athena. Yesterday in New York City, a seven-foot-tall sculpture of Medusa was unveiled across from the Manhattan Supreme Court, where men accused of sexual assault, including Harvey Weinstein, ...
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Created on 14 October 2020
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NYC's Art in Odd Places: NORMAL Festival Showcases The Strangeness of 202
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(Arts)
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... featured along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC on May 14 - 16, 2021. Founded and directed by artist, curator, Libra, and educator Ed Woodham back in the '90s, the festival has been showcasing art since 2005, ...
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Created on 05 October 2020
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You Go Girl: Why Traveling to Atlantic City during COVID Felt Safer Than Staying Home
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(Living)
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... only a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Manhattan, so my guy and I were able to pay a friend with a car to get us there safely. But the real safety party began at the front door to the hotel. Posted at every ...
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Created on 28 September 2020
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Set Your Spooktober Off Right With These Queer And Women-Centered Virtual Literary Events
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(Books)
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Bluestockings Feminist Book Club! October 4th, 2:30-4:30 P.M.
Bluestockings is an independent bookstore, café, and activist resource center, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Their Feminist ...
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Created on 16 September 2020
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Florence Howe, "Mother of Women Studies" and Founder of The Feminist Press Dies at 9
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(Feminism)
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Founder of the Feminist Press and sometimes called the “mother of women’s studies,” Florence Howe died on Saturday in Manhattan at the age of 91. The Feminist Press, a literary nonprofit that publishes ...
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Created on 14 September 2020
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Hey 19: The Wild True Story Of America's First Women-Led Terrorist Grou
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(General)
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... political activities.
Finally, on June 2, the group made their move, targeting an armored Brinks truck outside a Chase Manhattan branch, making off with more than $250,000. The three women waited in ...
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Created on 30 July 2020