Queen of the World!

Posted March 8th, 2010 by TheEditor

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow, winner of the Best Director Academy Award for helming the gritty 2009 Iraq war drama, The Hurt Locker. A woman has never before won this category, and not only was it a historic moment it was a joyful one at that.

International Women's Day

Posted March 8th, 2010 by TheEditor
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Today is International Women's Day, its one-hundredth anniversary, in fact. On this occasion of this globally-recognized event, today New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof offers three ideas for raising the status of the world's women, and asks readers for more suggestions. So chime in! And take a moment today to send good vibes to women around the world.

An Oscar first?

Posted March 5th, 2010 by TheEditor

Kathryn Bigelow, the director of the award-winning and Oscar-nominated Iraq war drama, The Hurt Locker, stands a very good chance of nabbing the Academy Award for Best Director—which would mark the first time ever a woman has achieved this honor. (She’s already blazed a similar trail: last Saturday, Bigelow became the first woman to ever win the Director’s Guild of America prize in its 60-year history.)

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