Women's Health

Free Will Astrology: March 20-26, 2013

SERIOUSLY FUNNY

Tig Notaro and crew take their podcast live

Why Is "Men" In All The Worst Words?

Think about it. Meningitis Menopause Mental

The Cutest Thing Ever Said To Me

In came the invite for yesterday: "MARTINI and the MOMs celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. "Join us for the 'A Toast to Survivors' luncheon with special guest Kristin Chenoweth at Alison Eighteen." So there I was, all poised to eat healthy food and chat with the ladies about their lives an ... More >>

YOU OUGHTA KNOW

Alanis Morissette gets deep with Anthony DeCurtis

Babies: More Time in The Womb Means More Success in School, Study Finds

Time to further complicate the nature-versus-nurture debate... A new study published today in Pediatrics suggests that academic achievement and brain development are directly tied to gestational time -- how long a kid is in the womb. What's unique about this study, which tracked 128,050 New York ... More >>

In Arizona and Texas, A Planned Parenthood Free-for-All

"Family planning:" The wholly innocent term infuriates the pro-life community. To them, it connotes Big Government abortions, the movie Juno and everything that is "morally wrong" with women's reproductive health (apparently, there is a lot). Since the female health service organization Planned ... More >>

Rightbloggers Ride Rush Limbaugh's Slut Wagon Into a Ditch

Remember the Clarence Thomas hearings, and how David Brock (then a right- rather than a left-wing operative -- yes that's how long ago it was!) called Anita Hill "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty"? Remember how decent people were outraged by this appalling breach of decorum? Boy, those we ... More >>

BLOOD TIES

Ellen Ullman tells Maud Newton 
about her new novel

Shoot for the Cure: Susan G. Komen Charity Event Raises Money With Riflery

​Late late week, Runnin' Scared got word that the pink firearm fiasco might not have been as much a false-alarm as had been claimed: A source told us that Susan G. Komen for the Cure and guns go back a bit, and furnished us with several links suggesting that this might be the case. Since the ... More >>

Planned Parenthood NYC: Breast Cancer Screenings Will Continue in the City

​The battle has finally been won against...breast cancer screenings? Yes, you read that right and yes, it's OK to get really pissed off, ladies. Amid sustained pressure from right-to-life groups (and the congressmen they support), Susan G. Komen for the Cure -- the nation's main breast can ... More >>

Marni Kotak, Artist, Will Give Birth at Microscope Gallery, for Real

Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of this would look like. Enter the very pregnant performance artist Marni Kotak, who is transforming the Microscope Gallery into a home-birth center where sh ... More >>

Tomorrow, Tell Someone About Your Experience With HPV (Hashtag #HPVDay)

Zazzle​Yesterday, we proposed a plan. In an effort to increase communication about a virus most people don't know enough about -- and many women are too ashamed to talk about, even though pretty much every woman we know has dealt with it at some point in her life, maybe more than once, and eve ... More >>

DESERT STORM

Catch the dazzling vocals of Khaïra Arby

Kate Middleton: Separated At Birth From...

​

Zsa Zsa Gabor To Become New Mother At 94

​That's what her husband, the Prince von whatever, told CNN, in a fit of crazy optimism! Apparently, it's going to involve all kinds of egg donors, surrogate mothers, sci-fi plot twists, and CGI special effects, but hey, it could happen, as sure as her great niece Paris could become a Mother ... More >>

PLAN ON IT

A political rally you can dance to

This Weekend's NYC Rally Round-Up

LIFE.com ​With sparks flaring across the globe, from the Middle East to the Midwest and even our very own SoHo, what seems to be a moment for change is spreading rapidly. This weekend, New Yorkers will take to the streets in honor of two particularly relevant issues: women's health, and violen ... More >>

PICK YOUR POISON

Alcoholic dishes compete in this boozy cook-off

Half of American Women Think They're More Successful Than Their Men

​There's a new male-female survey out, and this time it's in Women's Health, which reveals in the March issue that almost half of American women think they're "more successful" than the men they go out with or are married to. Women's Health spins this as a positive -- how great is it that wome ... More >>

Flight Attendant Forced to Show Prosthetic Breast During Patdown; TSA Horror Stories Keep Coming

Cathy Bossi​We could probably start an entire blog about the recent wave of outrageous airport security stories as the holidays approach. For those keeping score at home, we have so far: mood-setting freedom fighter John Tyner, the "Atom Bomb" tattoo guy, the screaming 3-year-old, soldiers wit ... More >>

Donny and Marie on Broadway?

​According to commenter on a Broadway board, where they're so very often right, Donny and Marie Osmond might be smiling their way into the Marquis Theater for 17 performances of a holiday show. If so, would it be a Mormon spectacular with production numbers about bigamy and chirpy monologues ... More >>

BrokeNCYDE

Sex and the City 2 Reviews: The 10 Best Slams

​If you're the kind of person who sometimes asks themselves why some people hate Sex and the City so much, you are either (A) not living in New York or (B) one of the imported creatures or various changes in New York City that Sex and the City is responsible for. Well, in the new movie, Carrie ... More >>

Sex and the City Vs. Nature

Aging disgracefully, the franchise struggles to stay forever young

Study: Male Fetuses Pretend Stress "Isn't Happening"

​The University of Adelaide in Australia has determined that boy and girl babies have totally different reactions in the womb to a variety of stressors, from asthma, pre-eclampsia, and cigarette smoke to psychological stress in the mother. "The male, when mum is stressed, pretends it's not h ... More >>

Raquel Welch Won't Talk To Her Vagina

​In her new book, Beyond the Cleavage, actress/singer/siren Raquel Welch reveals that when she was asked to be in The Vagina Monologues, she felt downright queasy about it.

FOODIE’S DELIGHT

You’ve never had a brunch like this

WRAP IT UP

How many tacos can you eat in four hours?

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

Artist shifts focus from environmental to personal

Bye, Bye, Boobies

Fundraising parties for trans surgery are all the rage, but don't tell Kerry Downey that.

Legalize It: Another Approach to Winning Plan B

Here Comes John Roberts, There Goes Roe v. Wade

Supporters of abortion rights prepare for the worst as chief justice wins confirmation

Death Becomes Her

Talking with Toni Pallett, death-bed enemy of 'bad' funeral direction and mortuary secrecy

'Kamikaze Girls'

NY Mirror

Girl Gone Wild: The Unique Life and Lineage of Anaïs Nin

Out On A Limb

Playing by its own strange rules, Judy Budnitz's latest collection turns mommy lit on its head

The African King

An octogenarian Senegalese director takes on patriarchal authority, one village at a time

Awkward Kerry, Hopeless Bush

The candidates' pitiful pitch for single women

NyQuil, Yes. Morning-After Pill, No.

Bush welcomes next wave of teen mothers

Sexual healing: The rise and fall and rise of women's libido

The Inception Deception

'Partial-Birth' Ploy Threatens Abortions, Forces Legal Challenges

Two Connected Studios in High-Rise

The Nuremberg Menace

An Alleged Doctor Killer Is Arrested, and an Antiabortion Web Site Returns

Rites of Passage

A Real Man

Brooklyn girl grows hair on her chest

Digital, Baby!

Technology Goes Back to the Womb

Hostile Witness

A Major Decision for Women's Rights?

The NOW Victory Could Be Applied to Any Demonstration or Protest