Vassar And New York Stage And Film Presents "Cowboy Bob"
In the early 1990s in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, local police and the FBI were stymied by a series of bank robberies committed by a suspect they called Cowboy Bob. When they caught the lawbreaker,...
View Article2018 Phoenicia International Festival Of The Voice: Sirens Of The Voice
The 2018 Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice will take place in Phoenicia, New York August 3-5. This year’s theme is “Sirens of the Voice.” The festival’s Director Maria Todaro and Artistic...
View ArticleThe Generation Of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing...
View ArticleFive Daring Women Who Defied All Odds And Made Aviation History
Between the world wars no sport was more popular or more dangerous than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi‑day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots...
View ArticleThe Hyde Collection: Current Exhibitions And Women's Equality Day Event
On Sunday, August 5, The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York opened complementary exhibitions: “ Jane Peterson: At Home and Abroad ” and “ Changing the Landscape: Women Impressionists from the...
View Article"Gross Anatomy: Dispatches From The Front (And Back)" By Mara Altman
Author Mara Altman's volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like, who decided that women shouldn't have body hair? And how...
View ArticleSummer Exhibitions At The Clark
The Clark Art Institute’s summer 2018 exhibition, “Women Artists in Paris, 1850–1900,” celebrates an international group of artists who overcame gender-based restrictions to make extraordinary creative...
View ArticleTeresa Gil On Mothering, Resilience, And Protecting The Next Generation
Psychotherapist Teresa Gil joins us this morning discuss her new book: "Women Who Were Sexually Abused Children: Mothering, Resilience, and Protecting the Next Generation." The book is made up of...
View ArticleKristi Coulter At Volume Reading Series In Hudson
Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. "Nothing Good Can Come from This" is her debut essay collection by a keen-eyed observer...
View ArticleInside The Evangelical Movement That Shamed A Generation Of Young Women
In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual...
View ArticleCynthia Lowen's New Doc "Netizens" To Screen At Woodstock Film Festival
The new documentary film, "Netizens," exposes the proliferation of cyber harassment faced by women, spreading from the web to the most intimate corners of their lives. As the internet becomes the next...
View ArticleThe Book Show #1578 - Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead’s novel "The Underground Railroad," tells the story of a runaway slave and re-imagines the pre-Civil War South. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award and Whitehead was...
View ArticletUnE-yArDs At MASS MoCA 10/30
On Tuesday, October 30 4AD presents tUnE-yArDs and U.S. Girls in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. tUnE-yArDs are Merrill Garbus and long-time collaborator, bassist Nate...
View Article4th Annual Brava! Fundraiser For The YWCA
The Arts Center of the Capital Region is partnering with YWCA of the Greater Capital Region for their 4th Annual “Brava!” , a fundraiser seeking to provide new bras to women and girls that live at...
View ArticleAthlete And Activist Aly Raisman At UAlbany 12/3
Aly Raisman is one of the most decorated gymnasts in the world, winning six Olympic medals as captain of the U.S. women's gymnastics team. Now she is using her platform to promote body positivity,...
View ArticleHope Ridings Miller, The Society Beat, And The Rise Of Women Journalists
During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to Hope Ridings Miller’s column in the Washington Post to see what was really going on in town. Cocktail parties, embassy receptions and...
View ArticleJana Robbins And Haley Swindal Bring The Songs Of Kander And Ebb To The...
Broadway’s Jana Robbins and Haley Swindal bring “WE JUST MOVE ON!” - their critically acclaimed sold out cabaret concert salute to Kander & Ebb to the Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Connecticut this...
View ArticleNYSWI Presents A Screening Of "She's Beautiful When She's Angry"
“ She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry ” explores the history of the women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. The documentary takes its audience from the founding of the National...
View ArticleSally Roesch Wagner Edits A New Anthology On The Women's Suffrage Movement
Sally Roesch Wagner is the founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York and currently serves as adjunct faculty in the honors program at Syracuse University. She is...
View Article"The Lost Girls Of Paris: A Novel" By Pam Jenoff
Pam Jenoff is the author of several books of historical fiction, including the New York Times bestseller "The Orphan's Tale." Her novels are inspired by her experiences working at the Pentagon and as a...
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