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Being a Man on International Women's Day

Graham Milne | Posted 05.08.2013 | Women
Read More: Misogyny, Adele, Religion, Women, Lysistrata, Game of Thrones, War on Women, International Women's Day, Transvaginal Ultrasound, Fox News, Republicans, Photoshop, Feminism, Melisandre, Women News
Graham Milne

Things just seem lighter, and happier. Like everyone rolled out of bed with a little extra oomph this morning. It's the women. The ones behind the counter, the ones waiting for their lattes, they're smiling, laughing, filling the room with a tangible positive aura that infects everyone.

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Kiss Me, but Finish Singing That High Note First

Jennifer Rivera | Posted 07.17.2012 | Home
Read More: Opera, Kissing, Lysistrata, Love Scenes, Music, Opera Kissing, Kissing on Stage, Sex Scenes, Stage Kissing, Opera Kisses, Home News
Jennifer Rivera

I always prefer to get the kissing out of the way right away so that the awkwardness dissolves by opening night. Plus, it's better to not be surprised by the fact that your tenor is actually an open mouthed wet kisser, or that your soprano is a closed lip face presser.

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If Only Wars Could Be Stopped This Way...

Franca Sozzani | Posted 07.07.2012 | Style
Read More: Leymah Gbowee, Leymah-Gbowee-Liberia, Lysistrata Comedy, Lysistrata, Leymah Gboweee Nobel Peace Prize, Style News
Franca Sozzani

In 2003, when Leymah Gbowee was awarded, alongside two other African women the Nobel Peace Prize, her name became particularly well-known because she employed a rather unusual method to bring to an end a civil war.

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Lysistrata Jones: Aristophanes Done Right

Danny Groner | Posted 02.13.2012 | New York
Read More: Lysistrata Jones, Play, Lysistrata, Musical Theater, Greek, Aristophanes, Broadway, Theater, Musicals, New York News
Danny Groner

While it's a lighthearted and funny story, the play does carry some complicated issues related to identity and sexuality. For these characters -- and the show in general -- there's usually more than meets the eye.

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Lysistrata Jones at the Walter Kerr Proves That Aristophanes Still Rocks!

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro | Posted 02.01.2012 | Arts
Read More: Walter Kerr Theater, Patti Murin, Lysistrata Jones, Josh Segarra, Musical-Comedy, Lysistrata, Arts News
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Expect that you will be so carried away that your gloves will fall out of your pockets, your hat will end up between the seats, and of all things, my theater friend ended up with the shoe of a woman in the row behind us.

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Peace and the Gathering Power of Women

Birute Regine | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: The Mothers of Mayo Plaza, Lysistrata, Ada Aharoni, War, Peace, Collective Power, Women and Peace, Women's Rights, Aristophones, World News
Birute Regine

In Namibia, where daily rapes were the status quo during a long guerrilla war, women sprang into action when a two-year-old was raped, calling together an initiative against sexual violence.

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Lysistrata, the Long Beach Shakespeare Company

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Long Beach Shakespeare Company, Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Brandon Cutts, Culture, Los Angeles News
James Scarborough

Brandon Cutts's adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, which mitigates the domestic challenges of war with humorous expediency, offers a welcome respite from bad news on the war front.

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"No water, no sex" - New films take on not-so-subtle meanings when it comes to water

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Religulous, Madonna, Michael Moore, Sex, Water, Environment, China, Film, Movies, Sanitation, Circle of Blue, Lysistrata, Absurdistan, Green News
J. Carl Ganter

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- By strange turn of fate or my wife's careful selection, almost every film we saw this summer at the Traverse City Film Festiva...

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