Menopause and Facial Hair: Some Solutions

March 10, 2010 by Michael Reed, M.D.

Dermatologist Dr. Michael Reed answers a reader’s question: what to do about a menopausal symptom that’s more common than you might think.

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Oscar Beauty: Pushing the Envelope, Please

February 26, 2010 by Billie Brown

This year’s nominees are challenging conventional ideas about beauty. But that’s not news, says Billie Brown–it’s part of a longstanding Oscar tradition.

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How Drawing on My iPod Touch Led Me to a Wedding at the San Jose Museum of Art

January 20, 2010 by Julia L. Kay

(Many observant WVFC readers are already fans of Julia Kay, who first told us of her Daily Portrait Project a year ago and this fall shared vivid memories of many Septembers. [...]

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Oscars 2010 Liveblog, Part One: First, the red carpet and Barbara Walters…

January 7, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

We woke up this morning to hear National Public Radio begin its all-day coverage. Some of us had made our bets on who would win, for our officr pools or [...]

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How To Begin a New Year at the Start of a New Decade, When Hope is Hard to Find

January 3, 2010 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

New Year’s resolutions are made and broken by most people soon after the list is made. It is often difficult to imagine how to make a resolution that will change [...]

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Poetry Friday: A Christmas List

December 11, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

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Inspired partly by Jan Simpson’s cool Christmas-for-Theatregoers list and by new Christmas poetry lists from The Independent UK and the Daily Mail, the latter a listing of new love poetry, [...]

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An Essential Holiday Shopping List, for Those Who Love Live Theater

December 9, 2009 by Jan Simpson

Photo: Joseph Moran.

Folks give and get presents all year long but, but judging by the number of recent searches for last year’s gift suggestions on my site, Broadway & Me, the intensity [...]

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Powerful Women Video Newsmix: Judith Jamison, Meredith Baxter Birney, Diane Savino, Berta Oliver

December 3, 2009 by Chris Lombardi

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Today, we’re doing a different kind of Newsmix — because our Youtube has been overflowing with the voices of women in midlife. Mostly, they’re not talking about midlife itself, but [...]

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Helen Uffner: Get Me Warm and Hose Me Down!

December 1, 2009 by Helen Uffner

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December temperatures are sending those of us in the East running off to our sock drawer and wondering if those wool tights we bought last year are now a) [...]

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An Education is a Masterpiece

October 14, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

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Every once in a while, there comes along an example of creativity that makes you wish you’d never praised one other thing, since so many of the words you might [...]

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