In an imaginative wonderland filled with mystery, fantasy and fun, the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale celebrated its sixth year Friday in the La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom of the New Orleans Ernest N.

On an overpass above a bustling street in Los Angeles, Marie “Poppins” Bonnevay, Lily Frias, and Inyoung “Dassy” Lee dance in formation. With flawless timing, they take turns freestyling to the bass ...

Prominent British author, cultural historian, and feminist-Annette Kuhn-mentioned in one of her works that “the femme fatale is primarily defined by her desirable, but dangerous, sexuality- which ...

There are quite a few iconic women of fiction in Rhys Cooper's "Femme Fatale" show, all of which highlight the traits and mythologies so revered by fans of the characters. It's nice to see such strong ...

Fifty years ago next week, audiences got their first glimpse of Elizabeth Taylor sitting atop an enormous sphinx as the titular character in 1963's Cleopatra. She was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt ...

The femme fatale – French for “fatal woman” – has been undermining men for as long as, well, there have been men and women. One could make an argument that Eve, the first woman in the Bible, didn’t do ...

The femme fatale has been a stock character across film genres. The term is defined as a seductive or alluring woman who either causes distress or disaster for any man who becomes involved with her.

If you've ever read a hardboiled detective novel, or seen a film noir, the first scene of SundanceTV's new southern crime thriller Hap & Leonard will seem very, very familiar. "Here comes trouble," ...

At a loft party in Soho one early fall night in 1999, I met a man—a brilliant and respected writer. He was 40, wild, irreverent, feeling the first flush of literary success, recently separated from ...