Fascinating fact of the day: The coffee filter was invented by a woman who loved coffee, but hated the whole rigamarole…
Artist, arranger, pianist, songwriter, mother, civil rights activist, and owner of one of the finest voices to ever…
Kate Spade’s death by suicide at 55 is as shocking as any sudden celebrity death—the designer, mother, and fashion…
Author Elizabeth Gilbert confirmed on Thursday that her partner Rayya Elias died with posts on Twitter and Instagram.…
Nancy Friday, author of My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies—i.e., my all-time greatest adolescent Friends of the…
Hugh Hefner, who founded the legendary Playboy in 1953, a magazine whose at times scintillating writing has been…
Barbara Cook, who originated the role of Marian the Librarian in The Music Man on Broadway and after a tumultuous…
Sheila Michaels, the woman who campaigned for “Ms.” as “a title for a woman who did not ‘belong’ to a man,” died of…
Robert Osborne—longtime Turner Classic Movies host, having been with the channel from its 1994 beginning, and a beloved…
Robert Leo Hulseman, the man who made all your beer pong marathons possible through his invention of the red Solo cup,…
After George Michael’s death at 53 on Christmas Day, stories began pouring in about the ways the pop icon privately…
This is some fucking bullshit. Carrie Fisher—life idol to millions of women across generations for her strong portrayal…
NewsHour co-host and legendary political journalist Gwen Ifill died Monday at the age of 61, PBS has revealed,…
Natalie Babbitt, whose young adult classic Tuck Everlasting explored the concept of immortality, leading many young…
Novelist Gloria Naylor, known best for her first novel The Women of Brewster Place, which is comprised of stories about…
Famed non-feminist Phyllis Schlafly died Monday at the age of 92. Eunie Smith, the first Vice President of the…
There’s a scene in the beginning of Young Frankenstein where a young medical student stops Gene Wilder’s Dr. Frederick…
Youree Dell Harris, known to many as Miss Cleo, died Tuesday morning at age 53 in Palm Beach County, FL. TMZ reports…
Singer Marni Nixon has died at the age of 86. She didn’t get the marquee credit, but the singing in some of the most…
Prince, the musician who helped define the latter half of the 20th century with his eclectic blend of funk and…
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