Women's History Month (Staff Picks 2024)

"From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth- century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"-- In the late nineteenth century, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere: divorce. With the laxest divorce laws in the country, five railroad lines, and the finest hotel for hundreds...

Joni Mitchell stunned the Newport Folk Festival audience last summer when she gave a surprise performance - her first in 20 years - delivering a heartfelt set filled with some of her greatest songs.

3.9 stars

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920's Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit.