By: Nicole Capo
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
By: James Smith
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
By: James Smith
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
By: Nicole Capo
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