Fringe 12 is Live

Issue 12 focuses on image and icons. We’ve got pieces on hair and teeth, AIDS, and myth. Read on, brave reader, and don’t forget to vote as part of our 25 books project. A gloss of this month’s issue:

Brett Allen Smith’s short story Needle! Now! Broken! takes what could be a horribly [...]

Keggers and CliffsNotes: Passed the test!

Keggers and CliffsNotes was the best college party, ever. Maybe it was the keg, maybe it was the pizza, maybe it was the 4 awesome readers that made the night, well, magical.
After some boozing and schmoozing to the college-band soundtrack in the background, a crowd of about 50 people settled down to hear Amy L. [...]

Great cause, bad taste

There is a fantastic benefit the dames at LUPEC Boston have created this September: a number of area bars and restaurants are donating the proceeds from a specific woman-themed cocktail to Jane Doe, Inc, the MA Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. So naturally, when Julia, Janell, Joanna and I met up after work [...]

Beauty and the Geek

Sometimes late at night when I am freelancing, I watch dumb TV. I like the background noise, and the lame characters keep me company.
Well, last night I caught an encore of the season premiere of Ashton Kutcher’s Beauty and the Geek. The premise of the show is simple: dumb, dumb girls who can’t read or [...]

Heartbreak Hotel by Gabrielle Burton: A Review by Katie Spencer

This is the eleventh of a many-part series written by the staff and editors of Fringe Magazine, who will be reviewing books from the Pool as part of the 25 Books Project.
Gabrielle Burton’s Heartbreak Hotel runs each of its engines at full capacity. It is completely intelligent, completely feminist, completely hilarious, completely furious, [...]

Keggers and CliffsNotes: A (Mercifully Short) Reading

THIS Sunday, September 23, (after the Race for the Cure) the Dirty Water Reading Series will present Keggers and CliffsNotes, a (free!) reading at Grub Street in Boston.
Readers on tap: Amy L. Clark (published in Fringe’s feminism issue), Beth Woodcome, Brian Foley, and Janaka Stucky. What better way to kick off the school year than [...]

Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure

See me? I’m TOUGH.
I’m the first to admit that my life gets busy. I’ve got something planned every day, and it feels like I’m putting every minute to use. I spend my time commuting on the T knitting, I write emails while I watch TV, I eat while I walk. I even sleep with a [...]

Robert Jordan Dies, Leaving Fans on the Edge

James Oliver Rigner Jr who wrote under the pen name Robert Jordan died yesterday of a rare blood disorder at 58.
I discovered him through the Wheel of Time series in high school during my medieval fantasy phase, which I have still not outgrown.
The series, originally meant to be a trilogy surrounding the lives of three [...]

Lifetime TV: Who knew?

So sometime over the last few months, I seem to have morphed from a bar-hopping twenty-something into a Lifetime television-watching forty-something woman.
Shocking, I know.
But what’s even more shocking to me is that the shows that premiered on Lifetime this past summer are much more than the usual Tori Spelling movie of the week. They’re [...]

Who likes pop art?

I do, I do!
Check out these modern interpretations of Wonder Woman.
Yay for artists keeping it real.
Which one do you like best? My favorite is Sam Kennedy’s (pictured here). But did you notice that not one of these drawings was made by a woman? If you have your own drawing to add, post it here.