A Stars Concert for Your Very Own Computer


Updated 11/21/07 3:58 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 7 comments

A Stars Concert for Your Very Own Computer

I didn't get to see Montreal's Stars on their recent U.S. tour, but the video podcast the group just recorded for Spinner's Interface is the next best thing. The performance includes four songs from the group's most recent must-have album, In Our Bedroom After the War, plus an interview with frontman Torquil Campbell and drummer Pat McGee. (No Amy Millan for the interview, sadly, though she's Read more

Music Video: Stars, "Window Bird" (With Cuddly Toys!)


Updated 10/09/07 7:54 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 6 comments

Music Video: Stars, "Window Bird" (With Cuddly Toys!)

Admittedly, the beautiful music made by Montreal's Stars can be a bit melancholy. According to frontman Torquil Campbell, the eerie romance is fully intentional: "If you could make horror movies that were like love stories, that would be my ultimate genre.” So it's delightfully incongruous that the band's new video for "Window Bird" features cute stuffed-animal creatures cavorting through Read more

Song of the Day: Stars, "The Night Starts Here"


Updated 07/11/07 9:53 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 8 comments

Song of the Day: Stars, "The Night Starts Here"

Some songs just play like the soundtrack for a movie scene waiting to be filmed. Case in point: the new tune from Montreal five-piece Stars, "The Night Starts Here." Listening to it, I can visualize the moment in the hypothetical film: After overcoming some type of adversity, a young woman (possibly played by Natalie Portman) heads out to a swanky nightclub, smiling as the lights swirl around Read more

Should There Be a War on Makeup For Little Girls?


Updated 05/02/12 10:44 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Little Girls and Makeup

Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Betsy Shaw about kids and makeup. Hope Perlman survived the moment of mothering girls I dread. In her post for NY Times' Motherlode, she relays the day her 13-year-old daughter begged to be allowed to wear makeup to a Read more

What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Sex and Feminism


Updated 04/14/12 4:53 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

Modern Feminism

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Lisa Solod, who came of age during the sexual revolution, explores what feminism means to this generation. My mother married my father because, she told me in a rare moment of candor, she wanted to have sex with him. She was 25 and tired of pre-sex fumbling and stolen kisses. My father was, of course, far Read more