The Other Carrie B.

With last week's movie release of Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw is back, in a big way. (And with the constant SATC reruns on TBS, she never really left.) 

But there's another Carrie B. worth swooning over:  Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein. One of the first riot grrrl bands, Sleater-Kinney helped define a movement in the nineties combining rock and feminism. After 10 years and seven albums, the band broke up in 2006, but Brownstein continues to be a creative force. In November, she started blogging about music for NPR at Monitor Mix. Her writing is witty without being snarky, and her knowledge of music goes well beyond indie and punk. 

Brownstein also collaborates with SNL's Fred Armisen on Thunderant, an online comedy sketch show. I think I've watched the "Feminist Bookstore" skit at least a dozen times, and still laugh. Though this Carrie wears Chucks, not Manolos, I think she's still high class.