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We're Getting Nowhere
We're Getting Nowhere ''The Terrible Three talk back to your TV'' is a vlog (video blog) that is posted Thursdays on AfterEllen where the three regular hosts Karman Kregloe, Jill Bennett and Dara Nai (aka The Terrible Three), talk about new episodes of various programs related mainly, but not exclusively to lesbian themed TV-shows. Series covered in the vlog include South of Nowhere, America's Next Top Model and The L Word. In the broadcasts episodes are recapped, re-enacting of various scenes with and without the use of sock puppets and other props may occur, relevant and irrelevant trivia and general opinions on the episode in question are shared with the audience. After recapping Season One of The L Word (when it premiered on Logo), WGN was retired. Location Originally filmed in the bedroom of Jill Bennett's residence in Los Angeles, California, it has since been moved to her living room. A few episodes very early on in the show had taken place in Dara's living room a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Bennett (American Actress)
Jill Bennett (born August 14, 1975 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress. She is best known for her role in the 2009 lesbian film ''And Then Came Lola''. She co-stars on the television series '' Dante's Cove'', as well as ''3Way'', a lesbian web series. She has produced two different series, ''We Have to Stop Now'' which was shown at Frameline and Outfest LGBT film festivals, and ''Second Shot'', which screened at The Dinah 2013, Outfest and won best feature at LFest in 2013. Personal life Bennett is an out lesbian A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate n .... She said "There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me". Filmography Television Other work Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Warn
Sarah Warn is an American writer and the former editor of entertainment website AfterEllen.com. Biography Warn graduated from Annie Wright School in Tacoma in 1992. She then attended Wellesley College in 1996 with a degree in women's studies, and received a master's degree in theological studies from Harvard University in 1998. She spent eight years in online marketing before selling her gay and lesbian entertainment websites AfterEllen.com and AfterElton.com to Logo in 2006. Warn stepped down as the Editor in Chief of AfterEllen.com, with Karman Kregloe stepping into the role in 2009. Warn is currently the Vice President of Growth at Seattle-based immigration startup Boundless Immigration. Warn's extensive written work on lesbian and bisexual women in entertainment has been included or cited in numerous magazines, including ''Velvetpark'', ''Curve'' and ''Lesbian News''; in newspapers like ''USA Today'', ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''Emmy Magazine''; and in books like ''BITCHf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AfterEllen
AfterEllen (also known as AfterEllen.com) is an American culture website founded in 2002, with a focus on entertainment, interviews, reviews, and news of interest to the lesbian and bisexual women's community. The site covers pop culture and lifestyle issues from a feminist perspective; and the political climate as it pertains to the community. AfterEllen is not affiliated with entertainer Ellen DeGeneres, although its name refers to her coming out, specifically when her character came out in "The Puppy Episode" (1997) on her eponymous sitcom. AfterEllen originally reported on subjects of popular culture, such as celebrities, fashion, film, television, music, and books; publishing articles, regular columns, opinion pieces, interviews, reviews, recaps of television shows with lesbian and bisexual characters or subtextual content, and popularity contests. Weekly vlogs were a key feature, the more popular of which included "Brunch With Bridget", "Lesbian Love", and "Is This Awesome?" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlog
A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog (), is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. Vlog category is popular on the video-sharing platform YouTube. In recent years, "vlogging" has spawned a large community on social media, becoming one of the most popular forms of digital entertainment. It is popularly believed that, alongside being entertaining, vlogs can deliver deep context through imagery as opposed to written blogs. Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers (see video podcast). History In the 1980s, New York artist Nelson Sullivan documented his experiences travelling ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Of Nowhere
''South of Nowhere'' is an American teen drama television series created by Thomas W. Lynch. It first aired on November 4, 2005, on Noggin (brand), Noggin as part of its teen programming block, The N. The show was produced by Noggin LLC in association with the creator's studio, Tom Lynch Company. It ran for three seasons and 40 episodes in total, the last of which aired on December 12, 2008. Live webisodes were also created to accompany each episode in the season-two storyline, and were seen exclusively through The N's website on the Click. The show follows the lives of the members of the Carlin family (Paula, Arthur, Glen, Clay, and Spencer Carlin, Spencer) as they adjust to moving from Ohio to Los Angeles, California. One of the main focuses include the relationship between Spencer Carlin (Gabrielle Christian) and her bisexual friend, Ashley Davies (Mandy Musgrave). The close friendship between Ashley and Spencer led Spencer to question her own Sexual orientation, sexuality, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
America's Next Top Model
''America's Next Top Model'' (abbreviated ''ANTM'' and ''Top Model'') is an American reality television series and interactive competition in which a number of aspiring models compete for the title of "America's Next Top Model" and a chance to begin their career in the modeling industry. Created by Tyra Banks, who also serves as an executive producer, and developed by Ken Mok and Kenya Barris, the series premiered in May 2003, and aired semiannually until 2012, then annually from 2013. The first six seasons (referred to as "cycles") aired on UPN, before UPN merged with The WB to create The CW in 2006. The following sixteen cycles aired on The CW until the series was first cancelled in October 2015. The series was revived in 2016 and has been airing on VH1 ever since. The series was among the highest-rated programs on UPN and was the highest-rated show on The CW from 2007 to 2010. Advertisers paid $61,315 per 30-second slot during the 2011–12 television season, the highest of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The L Word
''The L Word'' is a television drama that aired on Showtime from January 18, 2004 to March 8, 2009. The series follows the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual women who live in West Hollywood, California. The premise originated with Ilene Chaiken, Michele Abbot and Kathy Greenberg; Chaiken is credited as the primary creator of the series and also served as its executive producer. ''The L Word'' featured television's first ensemble cast of lesbian and bisexual female characters, and its portrayal of lesbianism was groundbreaking at the time. One of the series' pioneering hallmarks was its explicit depiction of lesbian sex from the female gaze, at a time when lesbian sex was "virtually invisible elsewhere on television." It was also the first television series written and directed by predominantly queer women. ''The L Word'' franchise led to the spin-off reality show ''The Real L Word'' (2010–2012) as well as the documentary film '' L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin'' (2014) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maeve Quinlan
Maeve Quinlan (born November 16, 1964, Chicago) is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Megan Conley for 11 years in ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' and for the series ''South of Nowhere''. Raised in Northfield, a North Shore suburb, she attended New Trier High School (in Winnetka). Career Quinlan entered the professional tennis circuit at age 16, appearing in several major tournaments and eventually reaching seed position #95 in world rankings, which earned her full scholarship to both USC and Northwestern University, where she studied theater. After an injury, she quit tennis and pursued an acting career, starting with parts in commercials for Nike and Gatorade. Prior to ''South of Nowhere'', she was a regular on the soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', where from 1995–2005 she played Megan Conley. She returned for a three-week guest-starring role on the show in March 2006, while on hiatus from ''South of Nowhere.'' One of her more notable roles was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Musgrave
Amanda Marie Musgrave (born September 19, 1986) is an American actress and singer. Best known for her portrayal of Ashley Davies on the television series ''South of Nowhere'', as well as portraying Misty Monroe in the web series ''Girltrash!'' and the film '' Girltrash: All Night Long'', she has also appeared on a number of shows as a guest star. Early life Musgrave was born in Orlando, Florida, and began acting at the age of 6. She became interested in acting while in high school. She performed roles in ''Anything Goes'' and ''The Miracle Worker''. Career Within a year of arriving in Los Angeles, California, she appeared on the television show ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''. Her big break came when she landed the role of Chelsea Benson on the daytime drama ''Days of Our Lives'', appearing on the series from 2004 to 2005. In addition, Musgrave appeared on ''The King of Queens'' in 2005. Later that year, she debuted on ''South of Nowhere'' as Ashley Davies. In 2007, Musgrave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget McManus
Bridget is an Irish female name derived from the Gaelic noun ''brígh'', meaning "power, strength, vigor, virtue". An alternate meaning of the name is "exalted one". Its popularity, especially in Ireland, is largely related to the popularity of Saint Brigid of Kildare, who was so popular in Ireland she was known as "Mary of the Gael". This saint took on many of the characteristics of the early Celtic goddess Brigid, who was the goddess of agriculture and healing and possibly also of poetry and fire. One of her epithets was "Brigid of the Holy Fire".Todd (1998), p. 23 In German and Scandinavian countries, the popularity of the name spread due to Saint Bridget of Sweden. In the Irish language, the name is spelled ''Brighid'' or ''Bríd'' and is pronounced "breed" or "breej". In the Scottish Gaelic language, the name is spelled ''Brìghde'' and is pronounced "breej-eh" At one time the name was so popular for Irish girls that Bridey was used as a slang term for an Irish girl in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
