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Ever wonder who deserves the blame—or praise—for unleashing Gossip Girl upon the world? Next week’s issue of The New Yorker has the answer: Alloy Entertainment, the juggernaut of young adult fiction. Alloy’s not only responsible for the Gossip Girl series, but also its clones The A-List (Gossip Girl moves to Los Angeles), The Clique (Gossip Girl ...
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With the announcement this morning that Indiana University's Elinor Ostrom had won the Nobel Prize in Economics—the first women to do so in the prize's 40-year-history—the tally of 2009 women laureates rises to five. Since the program began in 1901, only 40 women total have won Nobels. Ostrom doesn't cut quite as striking a figure as DoubleX's new ...
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If all this talk about the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz has you thinking, “Gee, I wonder what would happen if Dorothy Gale were a corn-fed nymphomaniac with deviant tendencies,” have I got the graphic novel for you.
The mammoth, landmark Lost Girls—first published as a pricey three-volume set in 2006 and finally released in an affordable ...
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For those of us who missed yesterday's epic Whitney Houston-Oprah Winfrey interview, Jezebel has put together a priceless highlight reel. We learn lots of sordid things about Houston's drug habits—watch her educate Winfrey on the finer points of freebasing here—and there are plenty of sad, sad details about her complicated relationship with Bobby ...
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Katie Roiphe’s recent essay for DoubleX, on the narcotic effects of new motherhood, has generated quite a bit of heat in the blogosphere. Yesterday afternoon, Salon’s Broadsheet published a roundtable on Roiphe’s piece. If you can stand to hear a little more on the subject, I highly recommend it.
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Last month, the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012
London games would be the first to feature women’s boxing—and India is
gunning for the gold. Somini Sengupta reports in the Times today on how the boxing ring “represents a new kind of freedom” for Indian women ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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We all know that celebrity gossip can wreck your brain, but apparently
it can also wreck your computer. Cybercriminals use our insatiable lust
for celebrity minutiae to lure surfers to malicious websites. And
according to the security tech company McAfee—which just released its third annual report on the riskiest celebrities in ...
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In 1984, MC Roxanne Shanté—nee Lolita Gooden—recorded the brash “Roxanne’s Revenge,” which launched the Roxanne battles and made the 14-year-old hip-hop’s first female celebrity. (Watch the video here: What’s amazing is how she’s simultaneously so cool and so awkward. And you must respect that sweater.)
Shanté left the business at 19 after two ...
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Paging super-fan Lindsay Lohan: Marilyn Monroe acolytes have just under 30 minutes to bid on eBay for the crypt above hers, according to the L.A. Times' local blog. The current occupant has been R.I.P.-ing there for 23 years; his widow now needs the money to pay off her mortgage ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel memoir, Persepolis—released
in the United States in 2003—was a clear-eyed, sensitive portrayal of
the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, seen through the eyes of
a young girl. Now Satrapi’s stark, inky images have been “remixed” with new text to tell the story of the recent disputed elections in ...