POP CULTURE and MEDIA

Date Night Dressing, Sex and the City Style
By Josie Brown for Complete Woman
Take a style clue from the girls of Sex and the City, who know how to dress for serious date nights. Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda—which style girl are you?

Flashback: A Fifty Year Retrospective
By Josie Brown for the Boomer Report
When boomers move in one direction, society follows. This isn't the generation that produced Las Vegas or the Atom Bomb, it's the generation that defined counterculture (you remember, the belief that the world can, and should be fundamentally changed)...

Reel Romance: Do the Movies Get It Right?
By Josie Brown for SingleMindedWomen.com
Lights. Camera. Action. Make it a kiss. A tear. Or the sort of clench between two lovers that makes your heart leaps before the screen fades to black. When we go to the movies, we seek the kind of emotional satisfaction that we want in our own lives. Particularly if we’re not getting any in real life. Romance, that is. Which brings us to heroine archetypes: do they truly represent us?

Hot Zone: Meet the Kick-Ass Women of Prime-Time TV
By Josie Brown for Complete Woman
Who are these new women who are captivating guys who don't mind a cool girl in charge? Try Sarah, Jessica, and Jennifer...the new prime-time, hip with an edge.

My So-Called Life...on TV
By Josie Brown for SingleMindedWomen.com
Meredith and McDreamy. Pam and Jim. Marin and Jack. This year’s television's twosomes say a lot about us as women. At least, how we women are portrayed on TV. Ways in which TV gets love for single women right—and oh so wrong...

Mad Men, Rad Women: Who Won the Battle of the Sexes?
By Josie Brown for SingleMindedWomen.com
Camelot. The Pill. Women’s Lib. The Sexual Revolution. In the 1960s and 1970s, the boomer generation brought a different sensibility to love, lust, relationships and marriage. Today’s hit TV shows are putting it in perspective for us who weren’t there. Or are they? These two television programs, the Emmy award winning, Mad Men and Swingtown, seem to have caught the retro zeitgeist, and the imaginations of viewers...