THIS WEEK
📖 READ: “The arc of fitness is long, and it bends toward seniors.” Anna Holmes bids farewell to her uterus. Rebecca Traister argues abortion is a winning issue for Democrats. The Cure’s Robert Smith takes on Ticketmaster. When your parents’ health upends your life. Adoptees and the invisible family.
👀 LOOK: Justine Bateman nails midlife. Older handbags are cool again.
🎧 LISTEN: boygenius, the film. Rock out like a teen boy with Gorillaz. The Japanese House (Amber Mary Bain) wants to meet somebody new in “Boyhood.”
🎟️ GO: Nick Cave: Forothermore at the Guggenheim (closing April 10). An all-star cast at Columbia Journalism School’s Tow Center talking free speech in the age of social media (April 18). National Poetry Month, all month long.
🛒 ADD TO CART: This Idda Studio scarf at Lisa Says Gah. The HOKA bandwagon is for real. The Dolci top and Mola pants from Universal Standard are transitional weather lounge/sleep perfection, in every size.
📺 WATCH:
Wednesday: The Good Mothers. A young female prosecutor works with women of the ‘Ndrangheta to bring down the Calabria, Italy, crime syndicate (Hulu).
Thursday: Beef. Steven Yeun and Ali Wong are passionate nemeses in this A24-produced dark comedy (Netflix).
Friday: Tiny Beautiful Things. Kathryn Hahn stars as a reluctant advice columnist in this series inspired by Cheryl Strayed’s Dear Sugar column and book (Hulu). Transatlantic. The scrappy 1940 European mission that gave rise to the International Rescue Committee gets serial treatment (Netflix).
STORY: How Two Trips to Mexico Set Me Free
My lifelong bad habit of not reading the fine print has been rivaled only by my bad habit of ignoring relationship red flags. Ignoring the fine print landed my acrophobic ass on a pissed-off horse on the edge of a cliff in Mexico. Ignoring red flags landed me in a second marriage that should not have been a second date. I survived both situations. But only now, nearly four years after that trip to Mexico and nearly three years after I left that marriage, do I realize how the former set the stage for the latter.
To be honest, the fine print wasn’t really fine. All the pertinent text was the same font size on the horseback riding adventure company’s website. I just didn’t give much thought to what “exciting and rugged” and “our horseback rides are definitely not nose-to-tail, unless you choose so,” might actually mean. And I failed to register just how high “150-foot cliffs” are. I just booked a reservation for three, my daughters and me, and looked forward to riding a horse for the first time in nearly 25 years, and spending Thanksgiving in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
OBSESSED: Thanks to Lash Extensions, I Can Cry at My Own Wedding
By Tracey Lynn Lloyd
For almost 20 years, I’ve wanted to wear false eyelashes. They always looked good on other people, but every time I tried to apply them, I’d end up gluing my own eyelashes together.
When I got engaged last year at 50, I promised myself that I’d learn to apply lashes, dammit, before my wedding. Fortunately, I encountered DIY lash extensions one day on Instagram.
#GENXAPPROVED: Question of the Week
This in week #GenXApproved, TueNighter Sloan is looking for the best way to organizing her digital photos — because like us all, they are “everywhere”. What are your solutions?
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