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Alternative Media Expo in New Orleans

by Amy S. Williams
February 12, 2008 at 3:35pm

We are happy to be sending some magazines and love down to the Antigravity Alternative Media Expo in New Orleans next Saturday, February 23rd.

Here is the scoop in their own words,

"The first 150 paid attendees will receive a FREE swag bag from the New Orleans Craft Mafia! What is the Expo? It's an event that's much like a trade show and set up like a comic convention--exhibitors...

Dog Show!

by Andi Zeisler
February 11, 2008 at 5:39pm

The New York Times continues to kill with its abundance of dog coverage. The weekend brought a look at the four new breeds making their debut at the mighty Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show; today, there's a piece in the Sports section on the various dynasties of Westminster-winning dogs. (Warning: If you don't want to hear anything about chilled canine semen, stay away.)

I happen to...

Karaoke for shy people

by Debbie Rasmussen
February 10, 2008 at 5:35pm

Sometimes I find it difficult to keep up with my reading pile, especially now that I've inherited a coffee table so enormous it almost begs for piles and piles of magazines, books, and zines to be stacked atop it.

But I set aside some time this weekend to catch up. A few things I enjoyed. Maybe you would, too:

1. A review of Swimming in a Sea of Death, David Rieff's memoir/...

Read it and weep: Atlantic Monthly advises women to just settle, already — you're not getting any younger, right?

by Andi Zeisler
February 8, 2008 at 6:00pm

It's enirely too late on a Friday afternoon to get all riled up about this article, but shit, it really went there. In a nutshell: Lori Gottlieb believes that women should settle for men they don't really want to marry, because being married is better than not being married. The Atlantic Monthly, meanwhile, believes that this kind of crap is something that people actually want to read. Both of...

Watch This!

by Amy S. Williams
February 8, 2008 at 3:40pm

To all you folks in Atlanta....

by Amy S. Williams
February 8, 2008 at 12:47pm

Bitch is happy to be a co-sponsor of a show at MINT gallery in Atlanta on

Saturday, February 9th, 7 - 11 pm * www.mintgallery.org or http://www.myspace.com/mintshowroom, featuring the work of Jessica Gonacha, Sunni Johnson and Emily Maxwell.

Please go out and support these artists and MINT gallery. If you go, let us know how the show went since none of us Bitch staffers can...

Oh, thank gawd

by Lisa Jervis
February 6, 2008 at 5:12pm

The best take I've seen on the feminist infighting on whom to support in the primaries (via Feministe, whose Jill also has some great stuff to say). (And cheers to Alternet for for inaugurating a Reproductive Justice and Gender section, but shouldn't there be something else for feminist coverage? 'Cause, y'know, the last time I checked, gender issues encompassed a whole lot more than baby-...

Really?

by Lisa Jervis
February 6, 2008 at 1:58pm

Apparently, this primary election is all about race and gender. So says the New York Times ("Polls of Democratic voters on Tuesday made it clear that the politics of identity—race, gender, class—was driving the contest between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton."), CNN, and, well, just about everyone in the mainstream news media world. While in some ways it's gratifying to see...

The Britney Advocate

by Anna Breshears
February 6, 2008 at 9:24am

I can't help myself from reading the latest installment in Britney's saga, which just gets increasingly depressing and weird.  Overall, I feel a great sadness for one very lost woman and the fate of her children.  The latest news about her "manager" stealing from her, controlling her with pills and pimping her to paparazzi is shocking and yet, I'm not sure how different Sam Lufti is from...

Hello.

by Rachel Fudge
February 6, 2008 at 9:12am

Once upon a time, I was knee-deep in earnest pitches from young writers, galleys of new books on every topic that could potentially be tagged as "women's issues," and piles of red-ink-stained page proofs. Then I had a baby girl and two weeks later my other girls up and moved shop to Portland, Oregon. Suddenly bereft without my weekly infusions of pop trash courtesy of free subscriptions to...

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