The TueDo List: Walkman 2023 + Natasha Lyonne + a Grown-Ass Bootcamp

Plus a Sharon Stone centerpiece, new Kelley Deal and some library love. 📚❤️

(Natasha Lyonne in Poker Face. Photo: Peacock )

THIS WEEK

📖 READ: Can’t shut up about Jennifer Coolidge. The legacy of civil rights activist Casey Hayden. Forget that NYT piece on people revealing their salaries; this TikToker’s roundups are better. 15 years of Brooklyn news from Brooklyn Based. Tech layoffs? Been there, done that. An exquisite interview on writing and midlife desire.

👀 LOOK: Why we’re all watching with subtitles now. You, too, can stay in the White Lotus palazzo. It’s Oscar season so we’re streaming every, single Hollywood Reporter roundtable. Pamela Ribon’s Oscar-nom’d ‘90s ode, My Year of Dicks. (NSFW)

🎧 LISTEN: New from the Breeders’ Kelley Deal as R. Ring. Cécile McLorin Salvant takes on Kate Bush (the remix). How to love your face.

🤣 LOL: Delightful animal mashups. A centerpiece of Sharon Stone. Welcome Goonies!

🛒 ADD TO CART: A new Sony Walkman — 44 years later. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control is on our list. A treasury of winter hats.

🎟️ GO: The Cruel World festival in Pasadena is an ‘80s fever dream. Reproductive rights as Roe (would have) Turned 50. Le Tigre returns. Willie Nelson’s 90th is going to be lit.

😋 YUM: Food trends from Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods.

📺 WATCH

• Now: Wanda Sykes guest hosts The Daily Show (Comedy Central).

• Tonight: Michael Chiklis and Abigail Breslin in the all-new crime thriller, Accused (Fox).

• Thursday: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Project (Hulu); Natasha Lyonne, Chloë Sevigny and Ellen Barkin star in the Columbo-esque mystery drama Poker Face (Peacock).

• Friday: Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nia Long and Jonah Hill in You People (Netflix); Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel (in a role originally meant for Armie Hammer, yeesh) alongside a starry cast in Shotgun Wedding (Prime Video).

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Story: How My Covid Boot Camp Brigade Has Thrived

(Image: Stocksy)

By Amy Barr

The temperature hovers somewhere south of 30 degrees. A wicked wind blows across the Hudson as I unroll my mat on the damp stone in Riverside Park. Some might say that staying snuggled in my warm bed or sitting astride my Peloton bike are wiser options on this dreary January morning, but for me and the women shivering beside me, there’s no place we’d rather be than waiting for Lisa, our lovable lioness of a boot camp instructor, to set us in motion…

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Obsessed: A Love For Libraries and Libby

(Photo: Pixabay)

Louisa May Alcott wrote in one of her lesser-known novels, “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” About a century later, this same condition hit me. As a kid I had to be hauled out of my local library as close to closing time as I could push it. My parents struggled for years to keep me in enough books — purchased or borrowed — to satisfy my little word-addled brain. As I grew up, I wrote, and read, constantly, editing my high school newspaper for three years, and eventually studying journalism in college. 

Then, cue the internet in the early aughts…

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Be the centerpiece, TueNighters!

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