Stories by Sheerly Avni
Sheerly Avni is a San Francisco-based writer.
ShowTime's
Weeds, one of the smartest shows on TV, puffs its way to a third season, with the premiere airing on Monday night.
Posted on Aug 13, 2007
How do you make the best movie of the year -- possibly the decade -- and still get pummeled at the box office by Ben Stiller and a CGI dinosaur? Hollywood's complete obsession with the box office is the answer.
Posted on Jan 13, 2007
The new Leonardo DiCaprio-starring movie about African diamond smugglers may be a schizophrenic mess, but it’s also one of the most powerful films you’ll see all year.
Posted on Dec 9, 2006
Spike Lee's HBO doc about Hurricane Katrina is a haunting and expertly told story that shows how little our government truly cares about many of its citizens.
Posted on Aug 22, 2006
The director of the new comedy 'Friends With Money' opens up about the complexities of women's relationships with cash -- and with each other.
Posted on Apr 11, 2006
A new reality series has a black family and a white family switch skin colors. But is that really the whole difference?
Posted on Mar 15, 2006
Tommy Lee Jones takes on immigration, racism and forgiveness in his new film, 'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.'
Posted on Feb 10, 2006
In her new book, 'Money: A Memoir,' Liz Perle argues that when it comes to their wallets, women still have a long way to go.
Posted on Jan 24, 2006
Although James Frey is off the hook, if Oprah loses faith in nonfiction, it could cripple the immensely popular -- and profitable -- memoir market.
Posted on Jan 13, 2006
In her new book, Maureen Dowd aims to explore the 'spectacle of gender in America.' But Dowd's America is like none that most of us have seen.
Posted on Nov 14, 2005
From multiple mates to gay tolerance to untraditional marriage roles, these birds are not at all the role models the Christian Right would make them out to be.
Posted on Sep 17, 2005
Political comedian Margaret Cho talks about Hurricane Katrina, stupid white men, and the question on everyone's lips: when can we be funny again?
Posted on Sep 10, 2005
As 'The Aristocrats' opens nationwide, co-director Paul Provenza explains why Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg are the only blacks in his documentary.
Posted on Aug 24, 2005
Forget empowering, encouraging, affirming or celebrated -- here are ten movies that feature
real women.
Posted on Aug 12, 2005
A top marketing expert shows how the abortion rights movement can fight back against increasingly restrictive climate.
Posted on Jan 22, 2003
Sorry, People: The guy who took the sizzle out of sex with a lesbian in "Chasing Amy" is just a bland everyman -- even if he is dating J.Lo.
Posted on Nov 21, 2002
Psychiatrist and drug researcher Dr. Charles Grob sees value in MDMA -- when it's taken in therapy, not at a rave.
Posted on Sep 12, 2002
"People were cheering. I think they saw that we had more heart." -- "Rocky," on winning the fight of the night at a boxing club in Napa, California.
Posted on Jul 25, 2000
