In the biggest literary hoax since... well, last week, when that Holocaust memoir turned out to be entirely…
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Drew Barrymore announced on Oprah that she's donating $1 million to the World Food Programme. "I have seen with my…
This Funny or Die video called "Women's History: Presented by Porn Stars" features famous porn stars reading cue-cards about pivotal events like Seneca Falls and the publishing of Betty Friedan's the Feminine Mystique, which adult film vet Nicki Rhodes declares "the best book ever." Unremarkable yes, but the ending is… Read more
Best Comment of The Day, in response to British Paper Says Women Just Can't Do Math: "Math is a douche. He cheated…
NPR's "Morning Edition" ran a segment this morning on what a groundbreaking work of young adult fiction Harriet the…
Considering the dearth of roles being offered to women over 40 in Hollywood, Mary-Louise Parker bucks the trend and…
There's a review of the Gossip Girl series in this week's New Yorker by Janet Malcolm, the revered literary biographer, and it is delightful! She describes Cecily von Ziegesar's series as a "Waughish achievement" and refers to Nate, the dim but gorgeous boyfriend of sumptuous villainess Blair Waldorf as a " Vronsky… Read more
Those weird sores on Amy Winehouse's face? They've been diagnosed as impetigo, "a bacterial skin infection that…
Women's Health and anti-domestic violence advocate Barbara Seaman died of lung cancer last Wednesday at her Manhattan home. Seaman is best known for her groundbreaking book about oral contraceptives, The Doctors' Case Against the Pill, one of the first published tomes about risks like depression, blood clots, and… Read more
A new survey by a numeracy campaign about basic math skills in British adults has been released, and it reports that…
Worst person ever alert! David Wrigley, a 24-year-old Long Island construction worker, had just moved in with his girlfriend, Sara Sabol and her cats Madeline and Jinx. Wrigley claims the cats disliked him, so he crushed them with a bed and then proceeded to grab, squeeze and tug the cats' injured bodies. All of… Read more
- The official Gossip Girl blog declared Jezebel as heroine Serena van der Woodsen's special friend.
Naomi Campbell has been discharged from the hospital. Earlier this week she was admitted to a Brazilian hospital…
Two Best Comments of the Day today, because it's m-effing Friday! First, in response to Modern Brides Can Be Real…
Wow, Time magazine is really plugging the hell out of Charla Krupp's hateful-but-bestselling tome How Not To Look Old — a book that advocates Botox and hair-dye for the post-menopausal set. It's been mentioned twice in the magazine in the past month and there's an entire blog post devoted to the book today. And lo,… Read more
In Montana, former cathouses and bordellos are now tourist attractions, where, according to the Economist, Big Sky…
What is this, a new trend? Gil Magira, an Israel-born baker, is on trial today for putting abortion-inducing pills into his wife, Anat Abraham's breakfast in November 2006. According to the BBC, Magira, a London resident, crushed up the tablets and put them into Abraham's yogurt, in her cereal, and in a sandwich.… Read more
The two doctors who were investigated by the Feds in Heath Ledger's accidental overdose were cleared of all charges.…
In yesterday's post about Orthodox Jews and anorexia, I made some incorrect generalizations about the dress codes among the Orthodox. I was wrong. I have pants-wearing, high-powered job-having, New Orthodox cousins, and so it's especially bad that I spoke so sloppily. And I'm sorry! I'm not sorry about Tefillin Barbie Read more
The British tabloid we love to hate has taken a story about rising suicide rates among single women and turned it…