…While Mother’s Day may strike some as an occasion for our family to double our pleasure/double our fun, the second Sunday in May has become the thorn in my bouquet of roses. I don’t particularly feel like sharing the holiday. https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/05/a-lesbian-mother-wants-to-be-the-only-mommy-on-mother-s-day.html
When the audience cheers for the landing helicopter in ”Miss Saigon” or the careening chandelier in ”Phantom of the Opera,” it’s applauding eye candy. When the awkward, bookish schoolgirl Elphaba mounts her broom and takes to the sky in ”Wicked,” our rush of emotion is
ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS ‘Mean Girls’ was a movie before Twitter even existed. How did creators update it to be a modern musical? “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park), left,
101 TV Shows to See Before You Grow Up: Be your own TV critic–the must-see TV list for kids (– April 1, 2017) by Erika Milvy (Author) 101 TV shows for kids to discover and for families to watch together, all in one book.
‘Hamilteens’ may not have seen the show, but they know everything about it. Who needs One Direction when you’ve got a musical about the founding fathers? Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton at Tony awards. Photograph: CBS photo archive/Getty Images Erika Milvy Wed 22 Jun
Everyone is talking about this book that came out. Some parents, you hear, are all upset that their kid was assigned to read this in school. Some teachers have gotten into big trouble for assigning it to their students. Some teachers have gotten fired. Some
MOVIES Bentonville Film Festival pushes diversity message from year one Geena Davis launched a film festival focused on women and diversity in Bentonville, Arkansas, that screened about 75 films. (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press) BY ERIKA MILVY MAY 13, 2015 3:15 PM PT BENTONVILLE, Ark. —
SF Chronicle Datebook Cover Story Rockin’ With Kids By Erika Milvy The value of mixing booze and babies was memorably extolled by San Francisco native Christie Mellor, who coined the term “The Three-Martini Playdate.” Her 2004 book mocks uber-moms and micromanaged childhoods and extols
….It’s called “free-range parenting” — or, depending on which side of the mommy wars you’re on, it’s called the worst kind of parenting ever. Now that my daughter is in middle school, I can’t actually believe how free-range my own childhood was. It was Manhattan
I may be a little too interested in my seventh grader’s Instagram account. It’s a peephole into the social lives of her classmates. It’s a juicy new reality show: “The Private Lives of Private School Pubescents.” Until it all turned sour, my daughter and I