While cruising CNN, I came across 'Why women are leaving men for other women,' which naturally peaked my curiosity. Granted, it's a report from oprah.com, but a new buzz word, not coined by Ms. O, is 'sexual fluidity,' based on recent scientific studies by Dr. Lisa Diamond (who also wrote a book on the studies), about women's sexual preferences, which the article discussed. The studies report that 'fluidity represents a capacity to ... Read More

New Yorkers, it's time to go hungry for the hungry. On May 6, skip lunch (or bring something from home) and donate your daily food moola to City Harvest , which helps feed hungry New Yorkers, especially children. It's part of the Skip Lunch Fight Hunger campaign. You can register to participate as a team or an individual. Teams will get a kit with paper lunch bags so that members can go out on the sixth to collect donations. Last year ... Read More

Yesterday, Gossip released an online teaser from their upcoming album MUSIC FOR MEN (produced by Rick Rubin). While you have to wait all the way until October 6th for the album to come out, you can stream the first single, 'Heavy Cross' off of their myspace page. Beth Ditto (Bust cover DEC/JAN 2008) rocks hard as hell and MUSIC FOR MEN will be worth watching out for. (photo by Rankin from cover story in Dazed and Confused ) ... Read More

Today is Equal Pay Day, but don't start celebrating just yet. After decades and decades of working toward a pay system that makes sense and doesn't short women, we're still not there. This day is actually a reminder of that: It takes place on a Tuesday every April to remind everyone that, in the United States, it takes a woman six working days on average to make what a man makes in five--a woman would have to work until Tuesday to make what ... Read More

It's human nature to want to share our stories, and every culture has done it in some form or other throughout the ages--from cave painters to street artists, from town criers to novelists to the bloggers here at BUST! And when a story is told, both the teller and the listener learn something. That's why I'm a huge fan of StoryCorps, NPR's nonprofit project that has been encouraging people to interview each other since 2003, with its ... Read More