Archive for 'February,2011'

Dropping the F*** Bomb @ the Oscars

Dropping the F*** Bomb @ the Oscars

Melissa Leo sparked some pre-Oscar controversy with her last-minute advertisements in major Hollywood trades, but in the end, nothing could disrupt the Best Supporting Actress nominee’s momentum from her wins at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors [...]

Worst Oscars Ever

Worst Oscars Ever

Hollywood’s Super Bowl was supposed be a match-up between Colin Firth and The King’s Speech versus the nerds billionaire boys of The Social Network, with some gimmes involving Christian Bale thrown in. [...]

AAAS: Brains, asthma, and bedbug sex

AAAS: Brains, asthma, and bedbug sex

It’s no wonder journalists come from as far away as Sweden, Uganda and Australia to attend the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. This year’s conference, which took place earlier in the week, [...]

Women Breadwinners: Why We Must Be Sensitive to Our Slower-Moving Husbands

Women Breadwinners: Why We Must Be Sensitive to Our Slower-Moving Husbands

I belong to one of the couple types that Hanna Rosin described in her recent piece on breadwinner wives in Slate magazine — the one where the “woman is a born workaholic and the man lives [...]

Oscars Cheat Sheet

Oscars Cheat Sheet

All across La La Land in the hectic hours before the 83rd Academy Awards, nominees are putting the finishing touches on the scraps of paper containing their — fingers crossed! — acceptance speeches. Limo drivers are [...]

Shoot Pirates On Sight

Shoot Pirates On Sight

The U.S. Navy has warships in the seven seas to help ensure peaceful passage all over the world. Yet pirates such as the ones who killed four Americans Tuesday are terrorizing an ever-larger number of shipping [...]

‘American Idol’ voting goes online via Facebook

‘American Idol’ voting goes online via Facebook

 Facebook users soon could become the power brokers in who becomes the next Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood. [...]

Voodoo sex ceremony spawns fatal fire, officials say

Voodoo sex ceremony spawns fatal fire, officials say

Candles used in voodoo sex ceremony caused a fatal five alarm fire after they tipped over and ignited bed sheets in a Brooklyn, New York, apartment, authorities said Friday. The fire left an elderly woman dead [...]