Update 3 Jun 08: Eye on Big Brother is now saying that the product squirted into Travis’s eye was not a body cleansing product as BB had claimed, but a shower mould remover, as we at Hoyden About Town suspected…. Read More ›
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Friday Hoyden: How to Hoyden Hepburn
Oh, I have enjoyed dipping into this over the last couple of weeks.
Karen Karbo has tapped into the rich vein of enduring fascination with Kate the Great, taking a delightfully fresh approach to a much examined life. She uses quotes and anecdotes from and about Hepburn judiciously and examines the implications with a fond but clarifying eye.
Friday Hoyden: Michelle Atkins completes 10 marathons in 10 days
Last year the Guinness book of records set a challenge for runners – complete ten marathons in ten days and get in the records book. Lots of runners found the challenge motivational, and a few completed the challenge in 2007,… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Awards for 2007: A Retrospective
Hoyden About Town is pleased to present: The FemmobolshoStroppo Awards: A 2007 Retrospective! You can see the nomination thread here. Bear in mind that this wasn’t a democratic vote. Our idiosyncratic nomination and selection process has resulted in a list… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Natalie Dessay
Today you get a Friday Hoyden and an opera review all tied up into one!
Insert sailing on high Cs pun here: La Fille du Régiment at the Met
Oh my oh my oh my. If ever I am required to save the world by snogging a tenor, can this be the one? We went to see the Met Live in HD at the Chauvel today. We couldn’t have… Read More ›
Friday Hoydens: The Suffragettes In Court [Guest post by baroquestar]
Today’s guest post is swiped, with permission, from baroquestar. Baroquestar is a 28 year old singing, studying, Australian museum geek with eclectic tastes in reading material. She is a solo mama to one beautiful daughter who likes dogs too, the… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden from fiction: Jo Marsh March, Little Women
How old were you when you first read Little Women? I think I was about 8, and I was utterly typical: Jo was my favourite. Was anyone unenraptured by Jo March on reading the book? What about portrayals on the silver screen or the box?
Friday Hoyden: Susan Butcher
This Friday Hoyden is a guest post from huckle. Huckle is a feminist who is slowly turning from resentfully compliant to cheerfully grumpy as she gets older. She is a single mum who works full time. She grows organic vegies,… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Zoe Bell
Guest post from Helen – thanks! Uma Thurman chats with Zoe Bell on the set of Kill Bill What hoyden wouldn’t thrill to the scene in Kill Bill 1 where Beatrix Kiddo, fighting off a hundred or so gangsters, flies… Read More ›