The TueDo List: Pam, Paramore and 90s Nostalgia on 🔥
Plus, new fiction from TueNighter Kerika Fields.
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: Women rule the Ivies — and maybe, soon, the box-office too. Answers from the “longest in-depth longitudinal study on human life ever done.” Why that menswear guy is all over your Twitter feed. Tips to support Black female entrepreneurs, now. The terrifying new obesity guidelines for kids. “Mice,” by Eileen Myles.
👀 LOOK: Nineties nostalgia continues to be a thing. Boygenius as Nirvana in Rolling Stone. Popular now, again: Parker Posey in Party Girl. Monica Lewinsky looks back.
🎧 LISTEN: “If you have an opinion,” Paramore has some thoughts on what you can do with it. Forty-years strong, Yo La Tengo’s out with a new album soon. The drill queen of the Bronx rapped her way viral. Questlove’s high praise for… Lil Yachty? (New album is that good.)
🤣 LOL: Washington state’s congressional delegation has been re-gifting this “gimlet-eyed monstrosity” of a painting to its newest member since 1976. Can you speak ape?
🛒 ADD TO CART: This viral LEGO bouquet looks even better in real life. Did you know Katie Couric has a shopping site? Embrace your softness.
🎟️ GO: Frieze is coming to Los Angeles. The Richard Avedon murals at the Met are larger than life. The Athena Film Festival is back in full force this March.
😋 YUM: All the recipes in Netflix’s The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House.
📺 WATCH:
Now: The new Succession trailer (HBO).
Tonight: Pamela, a Love Story, premieres on Netflix. Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, hosted by Chuck D, premieres on PBS.
Sunday: The 65th Grammy Awards, with Trevor Noah as host (CBS).
TUENIGHT 10: Lizzie Bermudez, Emmy Award-Winning TV Host & Digital Video Producer
Your Age: 54
Basic bio: Lizzie (a.k.a. LizzieBtv) is a digital lifestyle host with over 15 years of experience and a few Emmys under her belt. When she’s not sharing videos on social Lizzie is working on a new podcast for midlife women called "Our Halftime Show."
Beyond the bio: I'm a former tv news anchor/journalist. I loved it then but never got a chance to be the "real" me. I was always so serious. I wore blazers daily, tons of makeup, and spoke in that "anchor voice." These days, thanks to social media, I create my own content from home, often with no makeup and occasionally no bra!
What makes you a grown-ass lady?
STORY: With Your Bad Self
This week we’re doing something a little differently and running a bit of fiction. The following excerpt is from TueNighter and former TueNight Community Manager Kerika Fields! Please enjoy the first chapter of With Your Bad Self.
‘This girl better be ready when I get there cause I ain’t waitin’,’ Marie thought as she hurried up Fulton Street. She refused to be late for work this morning. Refused. This job was important to her. It allowed her to help her mother pay the rent on their fourthfloor Bedford Avenue walk-up. It also made it possible, finally, to help feed her eight siblings. Yes, sirree! This job ensured there was always something in the Frigidaire to eat. No more beggin’ their stingy aunt who lived downstairs, who was also actually their landlord, for another goddamn thing. Marie could never forget the time, only a few years back, when they were all up there hungry as hell, and the smell from her aunt’s place below of roasting chicken came wafting up into their apartment. But when her aunt, who knew they were hungry like everybody else was hungry during the damn Depression, came up to offer them some supper, the only thing in her pan was neck bones. Neck bones. The nerve. Just thinking about it made Marie’s blood boil.
We’ll miss you Cindy Williams….
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