Katniss Everdeen, Maleficent, Hazel Grace Lancaster, Tammy, and Lucy are just a handful of the interesting female figures you can find on the silver screen this year. But don’t be fooled, Americans — a handful of women in leading roles does not a fair representation make.
According to a report from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in... Read More
As we are constantly being reminded by controversies both home and abroad (for example: outrage surrounding cartoon artists in Iran), art has the power to enrage as well as entertain and enlighten — and sometimes those two can be exactly the same thing. But the most controversial artworks can also sometimes become the most influential,... Read More
These days, "travel literature" usually refers to guidebooks like the ones published by Let’s Go! or Fodor, which give tips and suggestions for how to best enjoy a travel experience. Those are fine as far as they go -- this correspondent for one would have been absolutely lost in Krakow without a book to tell him where to see Da Vinci’s... Read More
If you were a kid with any semblance of media hipness (or at least parents that were some-what to moderately absent), it’s likely you grew up with talking animals teaching you all kinds of life lessons — from the importance of friendship to tackling that pesky toilet. But a new study is being used to make the case to take away our favorite... Read More
