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The Iranian-born author-director of “Persepolis” and “Chicken with Plums” serves up another treat with her direction of this bloody funny horror film. More movie openings–most to see, but a few to miss– so read on.
As a hit show enters its second season, it is building awareness of prison conditions, particularly for transwomen. “People are so interested in anything having to do with Orange Is the New Black,” says the executive of the Women’s Prison Association.
The Motor City’s government retirees have a lot on the line when Detroit managers argue this week to cut their pensions. Workers in other impoverished cities could be affected by what happens in the largest municipal bankruptcy.
Older women are losing Meals on Wheels, single mothers are losing Head Start and domestic-violence victims are going back to perpetrators out of desperation. Service providers say the cuts hit people who don’t show up to lobby legislators.
Women have often been the face of anti-government protests taking place in Turkey over the past month. Clues to gender tensions come from headlines about a rape case involving police, government condemnation of abortion and more women in the work force.
Corrupt, tribal, medieval, misogynist. These are the refrain of reporters, media marketers and officials on Afghanistan. When reporters and officials pander to stereotypes, we lose the chance to understand what’s really going on.
June kicks off with movies about a lonely and troubled teen coming of age, three heroic girls who are not afraid to speak out against repression, a wonderfully updated “Much Ado About Nothing,” and the big problems of honeybees.
Texas has an unusually high maternal mortality rate and if Perry signs this bill the state could get its first statewide investigation into the causes.
Architect Denise Scott Brown, now 81, has never been happy about having the big architecture prize go to her husband Robert Venturi. Students behind a Change.org petition are backing up her case for retroactive recognition.
The case of Kermit Gosnell is spurring anti-abortion advocates to talk about the brutality of abortion. Pro-choice activists, meanwhile, are busy Tweeting about the “pre-Roe” conditions that led women to the Philadelphia clinic.