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The Bitch High-Five: What's Your Favorite Summer Jam?
In our monthly newsletter (sign up on in the sidebar on the right!) we poll Bitch staffers and readers on their top five picks in a given category, posting the results here on the blog. Help us out and give us five, or suggest your own answers in the comments after the jump!... Read more »
Sexual Inadequacy: Lawrence King
It is has been three years since Brandon McInerney took a handgun to school and shot his classmate Lawrence King in Oxnard, California and the resulting trial is now underway. Predictably, the defense is attempting to shift most of the blame to King himself, claiming that... Read more »
On Our Radar
So many links, so much free time this weekend.
Australian badass and WWII heroine Nancy Wake passed away on Sunday. The Pursuit of Harpyness shares her amazing life story. Seriously, how cool was... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: The Tourist Detective, Colonial Legacies
Earlier this month, Christian Science Monitor published a list of “Top 7 Detective Series Set in Foreign Locales,” a selection which is meant to “keep you on the edge of your beach chair,” as they put it.
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Stage Left: The PORGY & BESS Controversy
For those who don’t follow theatre news (so…quite possibly a lot of you), one story is currently dominating coverage, and it’s got a number of complicated aspects to it. I am referring, of course, to the kerfuffle over Diane Paulus’ mounting of Porgy & Bess at Boston... Read more »
Pop Pedestal: Wednesday Addams
This week on Pop Pedestal we feature Wednesday Addams, the most relatable living dead girl around. We all could have used a childhood friend like her, am I right?
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Dark of the Matin
The most annoying way in which this film tries to encapsulate 2011 is by making its characters as media-saturated as possible. In the twenty-first century, we have apparently transcended platitudes simply by becoming conscious of their presence in our lives. These hip young New Yorkers with their... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: New York Post
The New York Post likens the US stock market to “a hooker’s drawers” with a “hooker” on its cover. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch is back in town.
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BiblioBitch: Stop it with the Monster Mashups Already!
Yesterday, we received a copy of Grave Expectations: The Classic Tale of Love, Ambition, and Howling at the Moon in the mail. Yes, it’s another... Read more »
Stage Left: "What Did I Clearly Say?": Transgression and Punishment in INTO THE WOODS
Like many fairy tales, at least in the retellings we recognize today, a very strong theme of Into the Woods is morality—actions that are right and actions that are wrong; rewards for the former and punishment for the latter. What’s interesting, though, and what I want to look at... Read more »
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