Posted by: mikki
in Music Stuff on May 21, 2011
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Hey Rockers--
I have not been around much lately. (Although you can read my cover story with SECRET PERSON in next month's Bust!) But I wanted to post about this show and say some things about Japanther, and women, and the music scene.
As you know, if you are in a band or go to shows, rock and roll sexism is alive and well! Brooklyn Vegan and other music sites regularly feature disparaging comments about the appearance of female ...
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Posted by: mikki
in Artsy on Aug 08, 2010
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What happens when a super-talented badass makes a film about another super-talented badass? If you're lucky, the result is something like "Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Radiant Child," director Tamra Davis' new film about her friend, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. While deeply emotional, "Radiant Child" resists mythologizing its subject, a self-taught graffiti artist and painter who rose to fame in the art world while challenging some of its ...
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Posted by: mikki
in Eat Me on Jul 22, 2010
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What inspired you to start No Country for Young Women? Where does the name come from?The title "No Country for Young Women" came to me during the 2008 Oscar season, when the two most highly acclaimed films –"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" – hardly had any female characters at all. These films had a worldview devoid of women, and it was an issue that barely anyone noticed. Imagine the opposite: Could we ...
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Posted by: mikki
in Eat Me on Jul 21, 2010
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Did reading last issue's Riot Girl History by Marisa Meltzer make you nostalgic for days of yore? Or maybe you've been reading the Bikini Kill archive, and are suddenly possessed by the desire to share your own feminist punk rock story? Get our your Sharpie and your camera so you can contribute to "Soul Revolution," a video installation that's being created in conjunction with Girls to the Front, Sarah Marcus's book about her own riot ...
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Posted by: mikki
in Eat Me on Jun 30, 2010
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The New York Times has a blog post up today about how exercise science has ignored women. The piece cites New Zealand researcher Dr. David Rowlands, who did a study on male cyclists in 2008 that found they exhibited a 4% performance gain if they ate protein and carbs after workouts, as opposed to just carbs. He theorized that the protein repair muscle damage and aided in processing the carbs as fuel. The study aligned with other similar ...
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