Deborah Stambler

When I showed my daughters the trailer for the film Otter 501, I knew exactly what I was going to hear. I call it the puppy voice. In a pitch almost high enough that only dogs can hear it, my girls will say things like, "That's so cute....

The Tasti-Lee tomato is featured this week on the Publix grocery chain's website. The Tasti-Lee has been specially developed to mature on the vine, yet "remain firm all the way to the store and your kitchen counter," according to the website.

Tomatoes are not the fruit of...

The luminous, illustrious, industrious Judy Blume was at the LA Times Festival of Books recently. She signed books for at least two hours, but prior to wearing out her writing hand, she spoke to a packed house about her writing career, a child's first books and how she...

Rodney King's book The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption is due out on April 24th. In anticipation of the book's publication and the 20 year anniversary of the L.A. riots, King will sit down and talk with

Question #1: When is a woman who's not pregnant actually pregnant?

Answer: When she lives in Arizona.

I know, I know. You're wondering what the hell I'm talking about. Actually, so am I. The non-sense on this one is making me crazy. It's a dizzying logic that has led the...

It's National Poetry Month and to celebrate I caught up with poet, David St. John. Here are a couple of things to know about David (hereafter called DSJ):

His latest book The Auroras just...

Chances are you know someone with endometriosis. Endometriosis affects 176 million women from all over the world. It is often a debilitating, painful disease that can cause infertility, digestive disorders, menstrual difficulties, hormonal and mood shifts, painful sex, difficulty in relationships and...

I have to admit that I was nervous and a little starstruck going into my interview with Shelby Lynne. I've listened to her music since Identity Crisis came out. Her song Old Number 7 is a regular in...

Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad has been described as the cultural and intellectual center of Iraq. Bookstores, cafes and outdoor book stalls line the street. On March 5, 2007 a bomb exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street killing 30 and wounding 100. To mark the anniversary of the bombing and the...

The opening images of the documentary A Life Ascending brought to mind Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

With A Life Ascending, filmmaker

Most of you are familiar with the disaster Susan G. Komen for the Cure brought upon themselves by announcing they were cutting funding to Planned Parenthood. I was really angry and disappointed in Komen's decision to pull funds from Planned Parenthood for a program that provides...

I got my hands on a copy of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein which is just out in paperback. As I read, I found myself looking for my daughters. I looked and found myself too --...

The Republican primary in South Carolina is less than a week away. News about the primary, the candidates and their prospects of cinching the candidacy are coming at us at a fast and furious rate. I keep listening and reading to hear the candidates' positions on women's issues. It's not...

There are Super Bowl ads and racy NFL calendar spreads aimed at women, the Cleveland Browns have Ladies' Chalk Talk and there's even a women's football fan magazine called Audible. Women NFL fans have arrived.

Hannah Gordon is not your typical football fan. She's the...

I don't want you to think that the film Addiction Incorporated is loaded with declarative sentences. It's not, but the few that surface anchor the story director Charles Evans Jr. is telling.

Scientists want to make a difference.
Plaintiff attorneys don't like bullies.

Talking with Aimee Mann is a little like listening to her music. In the rhythm of her speech, her pursuit for the right word or the answer to the question at hand, you can hear traces of...

Our family is sort of loose on holiday traditions. It could be that having family scattered across the country is the reason for the dearth of holiday routine. Or maybe it's some notion of tradition=authority that scares my husband and I. Now I'm picturing Santa Claus as The Man and...

Meet Sara Nodjoumi and Till Schauder. They're husband and wife documentary filmmakers currently finishing a project called The Iran Job, waiting to hear about their film festival submissions and obsessively checking Kickstarter to track the progress of their campaign to raise money...

What do barnyard animals, Craig's List and doing good all have in common? Meet KarmaGoat and I can explain. KarmaGoat is the interesting name for a new, (mostly) online business focused on social entrepreneurship. Here's how it works. Let's say you have a microwave oven that...

As we prepare to bring home our troops from Iraq, I'm thinking about the condition of the country we're leaving behind. We're drawing down troops in Afghanistan and I'm wondering: Is either country better off now? And how do we measure better? Some would say definitely yes, that Iraq is...