We had our first freeze here this week. Before the pandemic, I loved my yard, but I didn’t pay too much attention to it, as I was busy traveling and going, going, going. Then everything screeched to a halt and I started spending a lot of time outside. Now I see all the little changes, every day, so it was startling to walk out the other morning and find so much, well, dead.
In today’s issue of Back Row: An interview with Kathleen Felix-Hager, Hacks’s brilliant costume designer, on dressing Deborah Vance. Where Felix-Hager found the ugly-glam yellow dress that kicked off the season (hint: you could maybe even find one for yourself online). Loose Threads, including the Internet’s favorite nepo baby hard-launching in W magazine; the Zac Posen for Gap shirtdress gown you can now buy; Jennifer Lopez promotes bottled margaritas — and more!
We lost our cat Peanut last weekend and I’m devastated. She was only seven. She was my first baby. The first thing I ever had to care about besides myself. She got me through breakups. New jobs. Graduate school. A pandemic. I’ve been trying to write through the grief. This small psychotic voice rattles around my head and tells me to turn my loss productive. Write something profound about loss or find some clever books about loss or loss or loss or loss
The photo shows Mrs. Wilkins, a teacher from the Philippine Reservation, teaching an Igorot boy the cakewalk. While the photo captures a moment of cultural exchange and curiosity, it also reveals the power dynamics and inequalities that shaped the fair and its audience and participants. In 1904, the city of St. Louis hosted a grand exposition to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase and showcase the achievements of American civilization. The Louisiana Purchase International Exposition, or the St.
After last night’s vice-presidential debate, political analyst Frank Lutz met with a focus group of 13 undecided voters on Zoom. Nine of those voters were men. They described Pence’s performance as “presidential” and “calm, cool, and collected.” And they described Harris as “evasive,” “nervous,” “snarky,” “rehearsed,” “abrasive,” “unsteady,” “rigid,” and “unpresidential.” Twelve of the thirteen participants declared Pence to be the winner. The vast majority of these participants were white — and the dissenting voice, as Vox’s Nicole Narea points out, came from the one black woman in the group: “I think we have to understand the difference of how we equate male and female,” she said.