The TueDo List: Vintage Cassettes + Tighty Whities + Bitchin' Bookstores
Plus, "Tea" with an astrologer ✨
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: An interview with TLC, who are “in this thang until the wheels fall off.” A brief history of JNCO jeans, not that we ever wore them. Yes, you can wear that (and wow re: that photo). I was powerless over Diet Coke. Daryl Hall on the best and worst of Hall & Oates. A great piece on nail art and Black culture.
👀 LOOK: The beauty and weirdness of vintage cassette tapes. Someone turned an old grocery store into a library — “audiobooks now sit where deli meats used to be.”
🎧 LISTEN: Lucille Ball recorded interviews with her famous friends, and now those tapes are being released as a podcast. New music from Billy Idol.
🤣 LOL: How to say you’re over 50 without saying you’re over 50. I made Paris Hilton’s unicornoli, and they sucked a**.
🛒 ADD TO CART: The Smithsonian’s anthology of hip-hop and rap comes out this week. Iris Apfel reading glasses.
❤️ DONATE: How to help relief efforts in Haiti. Support women journalists in Afghanistan.
📺 WATCH
Now: New episodes of Grace and Frankie. (Netflix)
Wednesday: Issa Rae’s Sweet Life: Los Angeles (HBO Max) and Nicole Kidman stars in Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu).
Thursday: Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in Annette. (Prime)
Friday: Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (theaters and online) and Sandra Oh stars in The Chair (Netflix).
STORY: I Couldn’t Stand His Hot Yoga Tighty Whities, So I Quit
By Jamiyla Chisholm
“We were all reaching, reaching, reaching, damn near attempting to fly. And then there was a simultaneous turn and bending — a unified swan dive that brought booties in the air and lifted heads... I was staring at Tighty Whitey’s not-so-tight, but very loose, wet butt. The middle of his undies sagged with his sweat, threatening to let his privates loose.”
TueNight 10: Amy Hall
Amy Hall is many things: A cyclist, a kayaker, a bassoonist, and an Eileen Fisher executive who advocates for ethical supply chains. And this fall she’s opening Hudson Valley Books for Humanity, a bookstore that will put the voices of women, people of color, and other marginalized communities front and center.
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Aug 23: Self-Care Astrology with Karrie Myers Taylor. Get the scoop on the rest of 2021 and learn about self-care strategies by zodiac sign! Sign-up here.
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Starts Oct. 6: The 4 “D’s” of End-of-Life Planning. How to decide, discuss, document, and digitize all areas of death with end-of-life doula Liz Lightner. Founding TueNighters free! Limited spots - register now.
Dec 8: End of Year Mental Health Check: Practical advice to get through seasonal affective disorder with Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble (coming soon!)
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