Gerit Quealy

Ghosts and vampires and zombies, who cares? Movies can't hurt you, but the curse of Macbeth in the theater is real.

Almost nothing makes me happier than sitting in the theater as the lights are going down at the start of a play. This past weekend it happened to be...

The notion of a New York Walk of Fame first crossed my mind when I was putting together the slideshow on film director/producer/studio mogul/cinema visionary Alice Guy-Blache... I suggested she deserved a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And she does. Although she didn't really work in...

My shoes were killing me. Even though the Bard Graduate Center gallery where "Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones" was being celebrated with an opening night gala was only three floors.

On the way to the top floor, I asked the elevator operator if he would carry me....

They're coming for your mom, they're coming for your dad, they're coming for your elderly aunt or nice neighbor.

This last weekend saw the premiere of the documentary film Last Will and Embezzlement, a chilling account of how the senior population in this country is being vampirized.

The Big Question: Can St. Patrick's Day be rebranded?

I sat down with Malachy McCourt, author, actor, and arguably the godfather of the Irish American at this point, to hash out the preconceptions and misconceptions of the Irish Big Day Out. As a supporter of Sober...

I don't mind fairy tales. I like them actually. But not the watered down, commercialized, PC-corrected, gutless ones.

The real, original stories in all their gritty, rough-and-tumble glory are rich with real life. They are stories of the soul. Ask psychologists such as Bruno Betelheim or

It turns out it's hip to be square -- as far as hairstyles are concerned anyway.

While I was interviewing New York City stylist James Corbett of the James Corbett Studio & Spa for NBC's StyleGoesStrong.com on the best hairstyle shape for men -- he was explaining...

Here are 5 things your hairdresser knows for sure (yes, that ol' 1950s Clairol ad is still packin' its punch...):

1. What your real hair color is.
2. How long you can let your roots go before recoloring.
3. Hairstyles that just will not work on you no...

The last Fashion Week is (finally) over--I was waiting for Japan (yeah, that's it). Although frankly, at this point, there's probably always a Fashion Week going on somewhere in the world.

But what's our takeaway? Certainly not the wardrobe of our dreams. Even our online Lookbooks are bulging at the...

NPR revisited their story on Alison Pearson's "I Think I Love You" when it came out in paperback recently, which spurred me to revisit the Swoon List for Smart Women I compiled at the onset of summer.

Pearson's novel, inspired by her passionate childhood

Pop quiz: Who was at the beginning of the film industry? D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. De Mille, and Alice Guy Blache immediately spring to mind, right? Yes! Wait, what? Who?

Ah. That "who?" is about to be remedied: On October 13, as the DGA -- Directors Guild of America...

When did we start saying 'It's a small world'? Could it really have been Disney, and the 1964 World's Fair? Little did they know in 1964, that the personal computer, still in its nascence, was about to make it even smaller.

Now, with the...

"Look at all this bonding going on!" said a stunning woman as she stepped up to the microphone. "We like bonding!" she exclaimed, breaking into a wide smile and shoulder shimmy as she introduced the next panel.

"That's June Sarpong," said a fellow journalist friend of mine, who happens to...

You may not be a slave to fashion. But you most likely use them.

Today is the 149th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. So we don't have slaves anymore. Do we?

Find out. Today, at 2 p.m. slaveryfootprint.org will be launched by the U.S. State Department.

How do you keep the pounds off when you have to eat for a living?!

Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi, who has said her mother told her to "never trust a skinny chef" has said she limits her off-screen eating when taping the Bravo show. But for

I just read the news about Florida GOP Congressman Allen West excoriating Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for not acting like a lady. I was confused. Act like what Lady? (He capitalized it in his email to her.)

Perhaps Lady Grey and her sister Lady Howard,...

If someone Likes something in the forest, and they're not on Facebook -- does it count?
Short answer: No.

I could hear the whimper even in the email -- a friend wrote to me, puzzled about the missing star system. "Where is it?" Dora* said. " I...

Chicken soup for the 16th-century soul? Well, kind of. If your chicken soup has snails or mole blood in it.

The fact is, many of what we now term homeopathic healers, were women back in the day -- the "day" being early modern history, for instance. But because...

Gwyneth Paltrow is responsible for inspiring foodies even more than she knows. The actress/blogger who just came out with a cookbook of her own, My Father's Daughter, unwittingly inspired Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook.
At least according to...

Is knitting news?! How could it be; knitting is so boring. Maybe, but then again, maybe not.

In this ongoing foray into Forgotten Women, sometimes a single, and singular, woman, such as Madame C.J. Walker, gets the focus; sometimes it's a group, like the women of the