New shifts in sport have been all over the news lately. Danica Patrick is the first woman to shift into the pole position (the top qualifier) at the Daytona 500. And while the International Olympic Committee’s unexpected and shocking decision to drop wrestling from the summer Games impacts more men than women, it’s telling that [...]
The time comes round every year: Miss America week! Tomorrow is the live broadcast and as usual I’m excited (but this year should be especially interesting with a 20/20 feature on the pageant starting at 8 pm). The 2013 Pageant will be a little different for me than last year’s– a time when I thought [...]
I’m a big women’s gymnastics fan. Knowing I love dance, sports, and nearly all things feminine and strong, this should come as no surprise. If you know me it’s also no surprise that while I took gymnastics as a kid I didn’t last long. I was flexible, but I was also fearful (I would think [...]
If last summer was The Summer of the Stage Mothers, this summer is The Summer of Dance (although if you watched Oxygen’s reality show The Next Big Thing about Trapper Felides, a famous children’s performance coach in NYC, you would know the stage moms are still lingering– as are the Dance Moms on Lifetime). Actually [...]
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post Books. “My life has been one big audition.” This is the first line of Elizabeth Eulberg’s latest young adult novel, Take a Bow [Scholastic, April 1, 2012]. Take a Bow follows four young performers–two songwriters, one singer, and an actor–through their senior year at the fictional New [...]
