🙃 “Cracks Are Back.” Outstanding headline. Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad trend.
🍓 Just in case the price of produce wasn’t bonkers enough, you can now have Japanese luxury fruits (think: a $128 melon, $238 strawberries) shipped straight to your door.
👟 Millennials, take note. The DVF wrap dress is apparently out, while the ballet sneaker is in. Trust us, it’s 20 times worse than whatever you’re imagining.
🥂 In things that make us highly suspicious: According to a recent study, couples who drink together, not only stay together — but also may live longer.
“Sex and the City” just made its long-awaited debut on Netflix, giving 260 million global subscribers access to all six seasons. In other words, this was the week many Gen Zers first watched the show — and they already have a lot of thoughts. Some of the commentary so far is familiar: “Their apartments are too huge and too nice.” Others are more blunt (like this take from theSkimm’s very own Blake Lew-Merwin): “The men they sleep with are all BEAT.” And predictably, many have taken issue with the more problematic elements of the show (see: this article for a rundown, though who could forget).
Entertainment reporters have questioned whether Gen Z, which is apparently having less sex than older generations, will connect with a show that’s so overtly about sex. (Remember the episode that talks about a man with the “funkiest tasting spunk”?) Not to mention how specific the show was to its era — a world untouched by TikTok, when people still went out in their 30s. Sure, they might write it off as too unrelatable, or the dreaded insult: “cringe.” But maybe Gen Z will find Carrie’s answering machine refreshing, or, at the very least, consider it an sociological artifact to be studied. Recent viral TikTok sounds, flip phone interest, and drink order trends suggest they aren’t totally opposed.
Can you improve on a perfect film? Oscar-winning writer and director Steven Zaillian evidently thinks so. Twenty-five years after the unequivocally great, impeccably casted film adaptation of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” was released, Zaillian is giving us another. This time, it’s a miniseries on Netflix, simply called “Ripley,” and it stars the hot priest from “Fleabag” (aka, Andrew Scott), instead of a very young — and very much in his prime — Matt Damon. While those who have read or seen any other version of the story will already know what to expect (Ripley’s a grifter, hired by a shipping tycoon to travel to Italy and convince his son to return to the US), they might be hooked by one other big change. It’s shot entirely in sharp, gorgeous black and white — which makes Ripley’s scheme seem even more sinister.
If staying silent until midday (aka, speech fasting) seems impossible or entirely unappealing, maybe sound healing will be music to your ears. Not to get too woo-woo, but it essentially uses singing bowls, gongs, tuning forks, drums, and other instruments to create vibrations and frequencies that can apparently help lull your mind and body into relaxation. It often happens in the form of sound baths, but it could also occur at a special concert or wellness retreat, or even via an app. Now, if using forks and bowls for anything other than dinner sounds like the type of thing Gwyneth Paltrow and Meghan Markle might do, well, they reportedly do. But so have various cultures across the world for centuries. And since it’s not invasive, super expensive, or nearly as intense as cold plunges, why not give it a try?
Turns out, there is a happy medium between that oversized, slightly ratty T-shirt you’ve had since middle school and those $150 pajama sets. It’s this shirt and short set, made from a fabric that’s both buttery soft and cooling — perfect for those of us who, oh, wake up looking like they’ve run a marathon. (If you have no idea what we’re talking about, there’s also a version that comes with pants.) Plus, it has a silhouette that’s similar to the cult-favorite ones and piping along the hem, sleeves, and collar, so you’ll look fairly chic for someone walking around the house in pajamas at 3 pm, which, let’s be honest, we all do.
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