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Snarky's Cinemachine Classic: Strange Days

June 4, 2010 at 11:06am

When Kathryn Bigelow nabbed the Best Director Oscar in March for The Hurt Locker, critics such as The Guardian’s Richard Adams wrote perceptive analyses of the film’s erasure of Iraqi voices. However, in addition to Adams’ pointed critiques there was a bit of concern trolling as to the choice of subject matter frequently explored in Bigelow’s work, echoing some of...

Political InQueery: Protest of the Flying Object Kind

by Everett Maroon

June 4, 2010 at 8:00am

A pretty obvious statement to make in these times is that the U.S. electorate is polarized. Long understood that so-called hot button issues like reproductive rights weren't a topic that everyone would agree on, other policies have jumped on the bandwagon, so much so, that now I'm a little shocked it hasn't crumbled beneath the weight of it all: same-sex marriage, prayer in schools, how much...

Douchebag Decree: Terry “Creepy Uncle” Richardson

by SARA KANTNER

June 3, 2010 at 4:53pm

Disclaimer: I'm about to shamefully make a Huey Lewis & the News reference: It's hip to be...a perv? Well, Terry Richardson seems to think so. Ever since sexual abuse allegations against the hipster icon surfaced, the blogosphere has been commenting on the subsequent shit storms that keep popping up around this perv. So, it's about time that we deem Richardson a douchebag.

Meat is for what now? Marketing veganism the wrong way

by Kjerstin Johnson

June 3, 2010 at 2:26pm

You’re looking at the cover of a new book by John Joseph, New York native and author of The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon. Besides grimacing, my other first reaction to the book was Malori Maloney’s assessment of Skinny Bastard - the male-marketed follow-up to the “vegan/animal rights manifesto wrapped in chick-lit veneer” Skinny Bitch. Malori wrote, “What could be an awesome...

The Lady Is a Tramp: What isn

by Andrea Plaid

June 3, 2010 at 2:04pm

Looking at Bitch’s archives, I know some people might have known—if not celebrated—National Masturbation Month, which was last month (and every May). But I has this nagging feeling that, as much as we talk about feminism freeing people from oppression’s proverbial yokes to explore what turns them on, feminism isn’t really discussing probably one of the first sexual...

TV University: Where my girls at?

by Kelsey Wallace

June 3, 2010 at 11:43am

The Huffington Post has a piece up today called “TV University: Meet The Faculty”. It’s a clever idea–a faculty roster for a university comprised entirely of television (and some film) characters teaching courses that play to their fictional strengths. So Dr. Who is the Dean of the Science Department, Stringer Bell teaches Transitional Business Management, and so on. The only...

Sm{art}: RIP Spiderwoman

by Kristin Rogers Brown

June 3, 2010 at 10:46am

Sculptor Louise Bourgeois created an array of surreal images in her career, many of which address psychological phenomena in physically mutated or twisted figurative forms. But perhaps Bourgeois, nicknamed “Spiderwoman,” will be remembered by much of the public who encountered her work for placing dozens of giant bronze spiders worldwide. She died last week, aged 98.

We'll miss you, Rue McClanahan.

by Kelsey Wallace

June 3, 2010 at 10:07am

Television icon (and feminist favorite) Rue McClanahan passed away this morning at the age of 76. She was best known for her role as Blanche Devereaux on the classic sitcom The Golden Girls (though I probably didn't have to tell you that). Blanche was always my very favorite of the four Golden Girls. I loved her Southern wit and charm and her unabashed sexiness (oh, and I thought her...

TelevIsm: Family Guy's Racist Emmy Campaign

by Rachel McCarthy-James

June 2, 2010 at 12:46pm

Ugh. Family Guy. It's a terrible, terrible show in my opinion. I still watch it regularly, out of long-held habit. But it's just. It's lazy, it's aesthetically not pleasing. It's not very funny. And it's offensive on an consistent, regular basis.

But for some reason, folks really like it, and Seth MacFarlane, its creator, seems particularly proud of it. It's currently in the midst of an...

B-Sides: Stellar OM Source

by Katie Waldeck

June 2, 2010 at 11:50am

My mind is seemingly always on overdrive. If I don't have constant (over)stimulation, I am not a very fun person to be around. It's not surprising, then, that my taste in music generally reflects my mindset. If you think it sounds like I need to take a chill pill, you're right; and I've found the perfect chill pill in the gorgeous ambient electronic music of Stellar OM Source of...