BY ISABEL ORTIZ
April 29, 2012
It seems like the ghost of Fiona Apple has been haunting the music world for some time now. Since her sudden disappearance from the pop scene seven years ago, her name has resurfaced across album …
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By ISABEL ORTIZ
March 11, 2012
The timing of the Women’s Center’s screening of Miss Representation couldn’t have been more appropriate given its proximity to the Academy Awards, our annual reminder of Hollywood’s male hegemony. A recent LA Times article …
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By ISABEL ORTIZ March 4, 2012
There’s something inherently problematic about writing an article about “female synth musicians” despite the fact that most of these women would probably deny having much in common with each other beyond the fact that they …
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By ISABEL ORTIZ
February 29, 2012
By now, the Internet has become well acquainted with the Lana Del Rey universe. Wafting through a world of interminable highways, faded tinsel and pleasingly dilapidated motel signs, her self proclaimed image as a “gangsta …
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By ISABEL ORTIZ
February 13, 2012
Walking into the Whitney this past Friday, I was floored by the sheer amount of people that had come out for a movie about the invention of the vibrator. Old men, young women and even a …
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