Musician, engineer, writer Sarah Angliss has embarked on a round of performances under the aegis of Spacedog, Her unique combination of nerdy science knowledge, inspired music and automata brings together technology, history and the spirits of the dead, including the titular dog, Laika the canine cosmonaut.
BITCH:CULTURE
19 May 2011 13:00 GMT
I resent the idea that Bridesmaids has to serve as an advocate for women because of the gender of its writers (Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo). It is unfair pressure on the film, not to mention, Wiig and Mumolo, who are apparently being held accountable for the future of women in cinema by how well Bridesmaids does in the box-office. It’s a sad portrait of the industry and its attitudes about and toward females, but one could go on and on about that and not make any leeway.
BITCH:CULTURE
19 May 2011 07:13 GMT
There are certain things that you'd think would never really go well together. Stuff like singing and sex education, or folk dancing and feminism. Occasionally something comes along to prove all your assumptions wrong and introduce you to someone you'd never heard of who did rather amazing things. Today I found out about the wonderful woman that was Mary Neal.
BITCH:CULTURE
18 May 2011 17:00 GMT
How many women worry whether their bodies are 'normal'? Some women have never looked closely at their own genitals, let alone anyone else's, so the idea that their own shape is somehow bizarre looking can often take hold. Do these women realise just how varied vulvas and labia are? British sculptor Jamie McCartney hopes to change this with his piece The Great Wall of Vagina.
BITCH:CULTURE
17 May 2011 14:46 GMT
Time to get your interpretive dance moves ready…. Kate Bush is Back!The words ‘new’, ‘album’ and ‘Kate Bush’ aren’t heard in the same sentence very often nowadays, and that’s just not cool. When her last album Aerial came out in 2005 it was the first new material Kate had released in 12 years. So when all those words started popping up in same sentence a few months ago, I got very excited indeed.
BITCH:CULTURE
16 May 2011 15:00 GMT
Even the most avid of reader usually likes to stick to a certain genre, whether it be true crime, murder mysteries, historical fiction, or celebrity memoirs. We tend to read what we're comfortable reading, and only read authors we know and trust.However, every once in a while there is a author that you will cross genres for. A writer in which you will walk happily walk into a section of the bookstore you usually walk past - even if that section is littered with books with titles which ...
BITCH:CULTURE
16 May 2011 08:00 GMT
Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine documents both the birth and dissolution of love, and in doing so, manages to be beautifully tender and tragically heart wrenching. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams are Dean and Cindy, a married couple with a young child, whose relationship seems to finally be hitting the wall and hard. The tragedy of their romance gone bad is made even more catastrophic by the glimpse we get of them as idealistic youths. They are two people looking for the familia...
BITCH:CULTURE
13 May 2011 17:00 GMT
Misogyny is an ugly little word and quite fitting for the ugly practice it describes. The word is Greek in origin, can be traced back as far as 150 BC…but somehow misogyny still pervades in some areas of pop culture, the most recent example of which is a nasty little film called Sucker Punch.
BITCH:CULTURE
09 May 2011 08:00 GMT
Seattle based folk band Fleet Foxes became a critical favorite in 2008 with the debut of the band's self-titled first full length album. Fleet Foxes garnered rave reviews from critics, gracing the top of many a critic’s best of list and earning them album of the year from Billboard's Critic's Choice. This week saw the release of their much anticipated sophomore effort, Helplessness Blues, and it’s evident upon first listen that what made them huge favorites in 2008 is ever present he...
BITCH:CULTURE
05 May 2011 14:00 GMT
Because women don't write anything important, right?Shocking revelations this week—or at least that's how it was presented. WNEP in Snyder Country, Pennsylvania ran a story with the deliberately provocative headline, "Parents: English Teacher Writes Racy Novels" as a way to manufacture controversy. Like the Simpsons' Helen Lovejoy shrieking, "W...
BITCH:CULTURE
05 May 2011 10:26 GMT