Florence Howe, co-founder of Feminist Press, dead at 91

Japanese designer to gain prominence in the highly-competitive Paris fashion scene, died in the American Hospital of Paris, the spokesman said in a statement.(AFP)Commenting is not currently available, but don’t worry! We’ll have a new commenting experience online soon.

CNN that Takada died of coronavirus complications. «It is with immense sadness that the brand K-3 announces the loss of its celebrated artistic director, Kenzo Takada. The world-renowned designer passed away on October 4, 2020 due to COVID-19 related complications at the age of 81 at the American Hospital, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France,» the statement read.Takada's death occurred during Paris Fashion Week.

Actor Rick Moranis was attacked while walking in New York City on Thursday, Fox News can confirm. The "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" star, 67, was sucker-punched by an unknown assailant while walking on a sidewalk near New York's Central Park, a rep for the star confirmed to Fox News on Friday.

The Nordic Film Festival, the largest Scandinavian film showcase outside Europe, has unveiled the lineup for its mostly virtual 6th edition from Oct. 15-20 in New York.

Chris Willman Music WriterA 77-track benefit album for a voting rights organization will be released as a download on Bandcamp Friday, for just one day before it disappears — and the list of artists and previously unreleased tracks is intriguing enough to inspire a full-on onset of carpe diem.The second volume of “Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy” includes an even more impressive lineup than the first, and like its predecessor, will be available for 24 hours, starting at

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: George Freeman, who saw a 20-year run at WME end in June and continued to represent most of his clients independently as manager, has landed at Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

confirmed to USA Today. She had been dealing with “some health and memory issues” and living in an assisted care facility before her death, her daughter told the paper.The Australian singer enjoyed several hits but the release of “I Am Woman” in 1972 catapulted her to stardom.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorRobert L. Lasky, the motion picture attorney who co-founded Agency of the Performing Arts, died of complications from sepsis in New York on Sept.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorPeter McGuigan, who co-created the New York literary agency Foundry Literary + Media with Yfat Reiss Gendell, has launched a new agency dubbed Ultra Literary.The move comes after the news last week that Gendell exited Foundry to form YRG Partners, taking Foundry agents Tanusri Prasanna, Peter Steinberg and Adriann Ranta Zurhellen and their clients with her.

Gerard Way has revealed that he might record a new song on Billie Eilish‘s new Fender ukulele after recently being gifted the instrument.Eilish’s team-up with the US guitar manufacturer was unveiled earlier this month, and has been labelled as “a bold take on the four-string classic”.Taking to Instagram over the weekend (September 19), the My Chemical Romance frontman shared an image of the instrument – which is adorned with Eilish’s signature “blohsh” symbol – among a plant in his

Janet W. Lee Following Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday night, Democratic voters broke records for the most money donated in the history of ActBlue, the party’s online fundraising platform.From 9-10 p.m.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Foundry Literary + Media co-founder Yfat Reiss Gendell has left the New York book agency to form YRG Partners.

https://t.co/VG0Rd08b6O“I would say we started what has become an avalanche of the rediscovery of women writers.”Florence Howe, ‘Mother of Women’s Studies,’ Dies at 91 https://t.co/9nddhgYfjPFlorence Howe was a force of nature.

Angelique Jackson The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has announced its inaugural temporary exhibition will be a retrospective honoring Academy Award-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.The presentation will be on display in the museum’s Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery, and will debut when the museum opens to the public on April 30, 2021.

coronavirus pandemic.The company reports record days of double-digit growth, e-commerce sales and beginner gear sales, adding that its Fender Play instructional app has seen its user base jump from 150,000 in late March to 930,000 in late June.Fender chief executive Andy Mooney told The New York Times that he “never would have thought” the company “would be where we are today if you asked me back in March”.With regards to the app, 20 per cent of new users are aged under 24 and 70 per cent under

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerRonald “Khalis” Bell, a cofounder and singer of Kool & the Gang who wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, has died at age 68. Bell died at his home in the US Virgin Islands Wednesday morning, according to publicist Sujata Murthy. No cause of death has been released.Kool & the Gang was formed in 1964 in Jersey City, New Jersey by brothers Robert “Kool” Bell and Ronald “Khalis” Bell.

Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald Bell has died aged 68, a representative for the singer has said.