TueDo List: Finding Joy + Sha'Carri! + Best Tomato Toast
Plus, Margit's interview with Laurie Anderson & a new Lauryn Hill tour.
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: The 40+ Double Dutch Club. Madonna changed how we think about pop culture. Biz gets smart about offering menopause benefits. World’s oldest battle rapper. This is not a stressful article at all. Harper’s new issue asks, “What Happened to Gen-X?” *Raises hand. (the Justin E.H. Smith essay is quite relatable, tho). A lovely summertime poem from Major Jackson about memory. Why readers should care about the writer’s strike. Beautiful story about finding joy during grief.
👀 LOOK: Watch Sha’Carri Richardson win gold. Have you been to a Mrs. Roper caftan party? We’re doing cricket feet right now.
🎧 LISTEN: Billy Bragg’s response to “Rich Men North of Richmond.” This rip-your-heart-out playlist for when you child leaves the roost.
🤣 LOL: The origins of your fave swear words. An Elaine dance-off.
🛒 ADD TO CART: Now in paperback, Killers of a Certain Age. Pippa Smith’s ethical jewelry.
🎟️ GO: Lauryn Hill & The Fugees announce Miseducation 25th anniversary shows. See Devo one last time on their final tour. The “Growing Up X” exhibit in Springfield, IL.
😋 YUM: The absolute best tomato toast for your tomato girl summer. A Strawberry Crunch McFlurry copycat.
📺 WATCH:
Wed: Star Wars fans can tune into Rosario Dawson as Clone Wars/Rebels-era fave, Ahsoka (Disney+).
Fri: Adam Sandler and his daughters join forces on screen in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (Netflix). The seemingly unstoppable Nicholas Cage in The Retirement Plan (Theaters). It's a double-feature opp with TueNight fave Dame Helen Mirren with two new movie releases, as she transforms into the "Iron Lady of Israel" in Golda and stars with Gillian Anderson in White Bird (Theaters).
Sun: Ayenda, documentary about Afghan women’s soccer team’s daring escape from the Taliban (MSNBC, Peacock).
INTERVIEW: Laurie Anderson talks Tai Chi, Aging and Barbie
By Margit Detweiler
In 1984, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed hadn’t even started dating yet, but they were already living together in my VCR. As a teen in Philly, without cable or MTV, I used to record music videos I liked, so I could watch them endlessly. On the same tape on which I’d recorded Laurie’s “Sharkey’s Day” from some PBS special, I’d also captured Lou Reed’s “I Love You Suzanne” from somewhere else. Who could have imagined that almost a decade later this icon of experimental art-pop would marry the godfather of underground rock. They were a fascinating yin and yang couple, one that demonstrated an amazing breadth of art and music within one household…
TUENIGHT 10: Laura Okafor Crain, Perimenopause Community Badass
Your Age: 39
Basic bio: Laura Crain is the founder of and force behind Perry, the leading platform where women can gather knowledge, guidance, and support on all things perimenopause. As a “geriatric” millennial she is flabbergasted by how little awareness her generation has about what is coming next in their womanhood journeys — specifically, the perimenopause stage that might start as early as the mid-30s.
Beyond the bio: I grew up in Germany to a German mother and a Nigerian father. I am a big fan of Nigerian Nollywood movies. I have two little sons named after my cousins in Lagos.
What makes you a grown-ass lady? I am still a year below 40, but what makes me a grown-ass woman is my passion for screaming perimenopause from the rooftops, when everyone thinks I am too young for that. Let me tell you, it is never too early!
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