Just the other day we asked a friend this question: "Where's grrl power gone to?" We know it is around, and we tip our hat to those sites and writers still fighting the good fight by employing the ...

She may hail from Atlanta, where she grew up and learned to dance, but she’s no demure Southern belle. Though certainly blessed with the feminine graces of ballet, including poise, lyricism and beauty ...

What would happen if the 50-Foot Woman teamed up with The Blob, The Fly, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and a larval Mothra to battle a giant robot from space and an alien invasion? That’s not ...

Niki Caro's "Whale Rider," a huge hit in her native New Zealand, has been making the rounds of film festivals since last fall, and everywhere it plays it strikes a deep chord. In Toronto, in Rotterdam ...

As children we loved to put on my mother’s old nightgowns, makeup and heels and pretend we were Queen Esther. Somewhere around adolescence this became a little more uncomfortable. Why was Vashti ...

Arabesque Festival Starts off with Grrl Power was originally published on Black Plastic Bag on Feb. 23, 2009, at 1:47 am “Arabesque,” the Kennedy Center’s massive three week festival of Arts of the ...

In her first year at Harvard, enterprising guitarist Amy R. Klein ’07 began a poster campaign across campus to solicit interest in a fresh and dangerous idea she had, an all-grrl Harvard punk band. It ...

KANDAHAR CITY, Afghanistan — To gauge just how far away this conflict-torn place is from normalcy, imagine what a Canadian reporter has to go through to get a good-news-story tour of a Canadian-funded ...

Few Disney villains are so iconic in their dark power and terrible cruelty like Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, which is why Jolie is the perfect fit. Jolie is an actress who can embody the seductive ...

An all-female punk band such as Finally Punk sounds like a conveniently packaged, easily categorized gimmick band. We hear you saying something like, “What, is this, like, Bratmobile 2.0?” No, music ...