Technology

Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Afrika Bambaataa, Tommy Boy Records, Rapper's Delight, Spray Paint, Urban Culture, South Bronx, Salt -N- Pepa, Female Rappers, Music, Mc's, 1970's, Spinderella, Angie Stone, Planet Rock, Aerosol Paint, Africa, Graffiti, Soul Music, Martial Arts, African-American, Women, Sugar Hill Gang, Rap, Brazil, Sugar Hill Records, Hip-Hop, Mc Lyte, Jazzy Joyce, Dancing, 1981, Microphone, Breakdancing, Soul Sonic Force, Capoiera, Dj, The Sequence, 1979, Monica Lynch, Sylvia Robinson, Turntables, Costumes, Black Women, Clothing, Harris Publications, Whitney Museum of Art, Business, Vh1, Stylist, Hip Hop Records, The Oscars, Photographers, Spotlight, Image Makers, Editors, DJ Beverly Bond, Publicist, Behind the Scenes, Magazines, Music Careers, Queen Latifah, Bet, Hip-Hop Films, Fox Network, Denise Dee Barnes, Wendy Williams, Female Graffiti Artists, Fetish, Art, Mtv, Choreographers, Subways, Living Single, Pump It Up!, Hot 97, Multi-Tasking, The Source Magazine, The Wendy Williams Show, Photography, Guidence, Murals, Mentoring, 1990's, Cover Girl, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flip Mode Squad, Images, Apparel, Wild Style, Lady Pink, Sarah A. Friedman, Eve, New York City, Music Videos, Dancers, Black Girls Rock Inc!, XXL Magazine, Costume Design, Entrepreneurers, Vibe Magazine, Art Museums, Viacom, June Ambrose, Leadership, Alumni, Jennifer Lopez, Elements, Michelle Spaise, Minneapolis, TV Shows, Curator, J-Lo, Exhibitions, Rosie Perez, Making the Band, Future, Past, B-Girl Be, Living Color, Festivals, B-Girl, Painting, Tv, Fly Girls, Unleash, Theresa Sweetland, Politics, Video, Political Activism, Female Artists, Art Festival, Laurie Ann Gibson, Education, Tv Sitcoms, Spike Lee, Midwest, Deanna Cummings, Minnesota, Expression, Mama, Television, Activism, Mama Said Knock U Out, Brewing, Do the Right Thing, Concerts, Lauri Lyons, Social Activism, Visual Art, Women in Hip-Hop, Mother, Communication, Intermedia Arts, Sculpture, Commissions, faith47, Sound, Cinema, Music Downloads, Arts Education, Installations, Mixed Media, Art Commistions, Roxanne Shante, Martha Cooper, Marketplace, Fashion, Museums, Art World, Block Parties, Albums, Textiles, October, Youth, Film, Streets, Records, September, Girls, Youth Programs, Cd's, Recording Technology, History, Technology, College, Balls, Music History, Belle, Music School, Universities, Money, Comeback, Scholarship, Undergraduate, School, Diploma, Language, Hip-Hop Studies, Fellowship, Mcnally Smith School of Music, Recording, Music Business, Author, Fab Five Freddie, Flag International, Video Music Box, Yo! Mtv Raps, Flag an American Story, The Bridge, Ralph Mcdaniels, Vinyl Records, Prince, Juxtaposition Arts, Stefskills, Sarah White, Jennifer Rasinski, Corinne Santiago, C-Rocka, Keegan Xavi, Jessica Kitzman, Janelle Olson, Toofly, Tiffany Smith, Niz, Lichiban, Katrina Knutson, Jamel Shabbaz, Tamiko Mitchel, Erotica 67, Motel 7, Ladykfever, Monica Kelly, Amanda Lopez, Abeni Garrett, Desdamona, Catiesha Pierson, B-Fresh, Wendy Williams Show, Alice Mizrachi, Niz Graphics, Kanye West, Chanel Kennebrew, Shannon Joyce, Manifesto Festival, VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors, MTV VMA, Michaela Angela Davis, Essence Magazine, Dream Hampton, Amsterdam, London, South Africa, Charlie Ahearn, Henry Chalfant, Japan, Jamaica, Walker Art Center, Toronto, France, Cuba, In the Frame, Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, Zimbabwe, Barcelona, Argentina, San Francisco, Represent Inc., International Center of Photography, Berlin, Germany, Belgium, Spraycan Art, James Prigoff, Puerto Rico, Powerhouse, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Norway, Paris, Star Tribune, Kulture Klub, Tokyo, Mexico City, Bronx, Zulu Nation, Hip-Hop Degree, Kimora Lee Simmon, Baby Phat, U.K., Russell Simmons, Phat Farm, Getty Images, Icp, Somalia, Somalis, Bling a Planet Rock, Raquel Cepeda, Entertainment News

Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

George Will Take Note: 1910 ≠ 2050

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Is George Will on the right side of history? Well, definitely on the right, but as for the history part? Not so much.

You Say You Want a Virtual Revolution?

Lisa Petrides | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media


Lisa Petrides

While it's true that the Web-based economy poses tough new challenges for higher education, we shouldn't let ourselves get too sentimental about the way things were in the old days.

Fashion's Internet Woes: Industry Going Out Of Style?

Latimes.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology


The $300-billion fashion business is in the midst of an epic shake-up that is changing the way clothes are designed, marketed and purchased. The Inter...

Google Books: On-Demand Paperbacks Printed From Digital Library

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks. As part of a de...

Video In Magazines: Entertainment Weekly Launches Screen Ads In Print Mags

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology


The first video advertisement inside a print title has been published inside the American magazine Entertainment Weekly....

Steve Jobs' Apple Keynote: "Incredible, Awesome, Amazing" Apple (VIDEO)

Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology


All of the incredible, awesome, amazing, really outstanding, better-and-better-and-better adjectives from the keynote speeches at Apple's September 20...

College Football's Camera Troubles: Cell Phones, Social Networking Plague Sports Stars

Nytimes.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology


For all the images of marching bands, cheerleaders and raucous student fans associated with college football, the romantic notion of a quaint campus l...

Technology Revolution On College Campuses

washingtonpost.com | Zephyr Teachout | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology


Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enab...

Evaluating the Legacy of the Father of the Green Revolution

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


Paula Crossfield

Norman Borlaug, known for winning the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his role in the Green Revolution, died this past weekend at age 95. His life was dedicated to ending hunger through technology.

What Kind of a Total Facebook Knob Are You?

eSarcasm | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy


eSarcasm

I know. You get no end of pleasure by sending "fun" quizzes to all your Facebook peeps. Then you wonder why people have quietly unfriended you.

This Is Denver, Colorado

Ethan Axelrod | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver


Ethan Axelrod

Given Colorado's battleground status, the romantic place it holds in the national psyche as a symbol of the frontier, and a place of treasured natural beauty, Denver starts to make a lot of sense for the Huffington Post.

Balanced Life -- Embrace The Update, Or, Why Is It So Hard To Turn On The TV?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

Novelty and challenge bring happiness, true, but they also bring frustration, anxiety, and sometimes a bit of cursing.

A Sundance for Startups

Maya Baratz | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media


Maya Baratz

If you were to compare TechCrunch50 to anything related to Hollywood - a comparison folks in the tech industry love to hate - it's probably most like the Sundance Film Festival, circa anytime before this decade.

Democracy's Digital Revolution

New York TImes | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology


There is no turning back the clock. We now have more public opinion exerting pressure on politics than ever before. The question is how it may be chan...

Technology Is Anthropology

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology


Jose Antonio Vargas

HuffPostTech -- a new HuffPost section that launches next Monday -- will cover how technology in general, and the Internet in particular, is changing the way we live our lives.

Boulder/Denver New Tech Meetup Helps Entrepreneurial Community

Brett Greene | Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver


Brett Greene

Have you ever been to a networking event? Then you've had that cringing feeling in your stomach after entering a room full of strangers.

The Other Man

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living


Charlotte Safavi

I'm in love with another man. Let me call him Daniel. I met him through my husband Ron. He introduced us at Marseille airport and then offered him a ride to the village where we were staying.

The Google Brain Drain Goes On

Nicholas Carlson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business


Nicholas Carlson

For a lot of employees who joined Google at the beginning or through acquisitions, solving a big company's problems of efficiency is kind of boring.

Three Clues to the Economy and Disney World

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 11.16.2009 | World


Blythe McGarvie

Lately, I've been reflecting about my first visit to EPCOT at Disney World. Many of the countries exhibit their natural beauty. The U.S. highlights technology and its prowess in military victories.

Aneesh Chopra: Obama's CTO To "Reboot" America

Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology


President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra, Virginia's former technology secretary, as the nation's first chief technology officer and charged him with p...

Google's Custom Solar Technology Will Reduce Costs by 60%

treehugger.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green


Google's developing new solar tech that will drop the cost from 18 cents a kW-h to just under 5. At least, it's hoping to. ...

James Balog: Time-Lapse Proof of Extreme Ice Loss

TEDTalks | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


TEDTalks

Balog has been going up north to shoot the half-alive ice of the mammoth glaciers for his Extreme Ice Survey, a look at the shocking effects of abrupt climate change in Alaska, Greenland and Iceland.

Love, Facebook Style

Todd Greene | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Todd Greene

Two weeks ago, when I changed my status to "In a Relationship," I was not prepared for the fallout.

The Techno-Loner Generation: Are You Raising a Socially Illiterate Child?

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


Keith Ferrazzi

Teenagers send and receive 2,272 texts a month and spend nine hours a week absorbed in social networking sites. Does the Digital Age stupefy the next generation?