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more about #npr more comments → Kivrin: Great NPR piece this morning on Sesame Street's 40th anniversary: [www.npr.org] #npr more » clevernamehere: Wouldn't it have been pretty easy to figure out who this girl was? Just call the hotel and ask about employee records. more » Ack: I love this book. I can truly say that it inspired me to become a photographer, although I've founf a lot of photographers don't like Frank because t... more » wednesdayam: I adore that book. I really do. Things like this and like what I've seen all my life in National Geographic inspire my own work more than a lot of t... more » NellMood: God, I love that photograph. My photo that I use here is from The Americans- it's such an incredible collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will b... more » CherriSpryte: I love that last line - "its not necessarily loneliness, it's dreaminess". What a great thing to recognize in yourself. more » Cam/ron: Good choice of writing about the great candid photographer Robert Frank. more » Penny: My company used a photo of a friend and I for a tag of some kind, I can't even remember what it was for. But, I was in Mexico a few years back at som... more » LuvEwan: I wish someone would take an iconic, culturally significant picture of me. But, uh, not at work. I got that bored, there's-something-more-for-me-out-t... more » lamey007: This is awesome. It reminds me of a thread some time ago where girls found pictures of themselves on random products abroad. How interesting to bump i... more » Ultraprison!: OMG can they give me a job? Wow, I've been on the job hunt for too long now. Could there be a subcommittee on "recently graduated from college and cur... more » Saltine: YAY! Sorry my glee is overwhelming right now, I've known Tina almost my entire life, she's one of my best friends from childhood's mom and my worlds a... more » Penny: And we need to retire the term "special treatment" when talking about female advancement. Special treatment is getting into Harvard with a 3.0 becaus... more » Penny: But it's so hard, having a penis. more » TRexstasy: She looks and sounds exactly like my therapist. more » -
#artssake
Elevator Girl Recognizes Herself In Iconic Photograph, Years Later
In 1955, photographer Robert Frank snapped a picture of a girl in her uniform, working the elevator in a Miami hotel, as she looked toward the camera with an unreadable expression. Her name was Sharon Goldstein. More » -
#womeninpower
Why The White House Helps Women
Wondering why women get all that special treatment? Tina Tchen (right) tells NPR why we need a White House Council on Women and Girls, and why issues like health care and small-business ownership present unique problems for women. [NPR] -
#wordsofwisdom
A Famous Interviewer Gets Interviewed
"People think listening is easy. Listening is hard. It's easy to be distracted by a headache, or worries over a family member who's ill. You have to not allow yourself to be distracted." — NPR's Terry Gross [Seattle Times] -
#namegames
What's Your NPR Name?
I'm Anbna LaSelva, reporting from the Land of Internet Time-Wasting, where one Linda Holmes has just discovered a new and potent time-waster: your NPR name. More » -
#multiplepersonalities
Hannah Montana Tells Kids To Be Themselves, Or Better Yet, Someone Else
Mark Blankenship from NPR's blog Monkey See reviewed the new "Hannah Montana" movie and found a "sinister hidden message" lodged in at the end. Spoiler alert! after the jump. More » -
#lovemom
Momma Knows Best: A Call For Questions
Former Jezebel editor Jessica here! Anna has kindly allowed me to shamelessly promote the book I co-wrote with Doree Shafrir, Love, Mom. In honor of its publication tomorrow, Doree and I are offering our own moms… More » -
#womenbehindthecamera
Mary Stuart Masterson Talks About Directing Her First Film
Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show guest host Kerry Nolan talked with actress Mary Stuart Masterson about her directorial debut The Cake Eaters, which opens today in limited release. More » -
#modernmotherhood
Military Moms Call For More Support In Family Planning
On Tuesday, NPR featured a segment on the difficulties of balancing work and family, but this time with an interesting twist: all the women interviewed were in the military. More » -
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#notablequotable
Model Survived The Last Depression, Will Manage This One, Too
"I've come from where I've come from in life the hard way, like most people. I was never one to spend any money that I hadn't earned, and I never envied what anyone else had." More » -
#hdforyoume
High-Definition Cameras Give Hollywood More Ways To Do Makeup
High-definition broadcasting is a brave new world of detail — including some we might not want to see. Makeup artists are concocting all manner of techniques to save entertainers from visible brush strokes and pancake. More » -
#theladymagchronicles
Glamour Editor Reveals Hidden Expertise In Mixed Martial Arts
Glamour's Cindi Leive played Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me's "Not My Job" last Saturday. She talked about inaugural fashions, and the importance of resisting the temptation to use her pages to nominate bogus trends. More » -
#sunnydays
Sesame Street, Brought to You by Joan Ganz Cooney
Co-creator of Sesame Street Joan Ganz Cooney, spoke to NPR this morning about how in 1969 she came up with the idea for the show that changed children's television forever.
