She’s overeducated, underemployed, badly sexed — you might think you’ve heard 20-something Shirin’s story before, but you haven’t. Written and directed by and starring newcomer Desiree Akhavan, ...

Calaveras County supervisors gave the go-ahead Tuesday for the county library to implement an appropriate behavior policy. The new policy, effective immediately, is designed to combat behaviors such ...

Director, actor and writer Desiree Akhavan‘s first full-length feature “Appropriate Behavior” follows a young woman trying to navigate her way through a difficult break up while dealing with her ...

Desiree Akhavan is an incoming cast member on the new season of “Girls,” and if you check out her wistful, compact and drily amusing low-budget feature “Appropriate Behavior,” you’ll see why. (It ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone played by your rules? You would always be first in line, no one would ever hassle you and you’d never be late for a meeting or event. But we all live in a world that ...

Everybody and their hip boomer parents will compare Appropriate Behavior to Girls. Everybody. That proves the blatancy of their family resemblance; you can no more ignore the influence of Dunham in ...