I do not have a particularly green thumb. Any gardening success I’ve had—mostly with the pots of cherry tomatoes and herbs on my patio—has been due to good luck and strong sun.
In California, it’s no ordinary Friday. Today marks the first April 20—a one-day stoners’ pride parade also known as 4/20—since the state legalized recreational marijuana.
Nothing gives me the “I wants” quite like springtime. I want a ruffled dress, a cotton-and-linen suit, orchid-pink clogs, a million bodysuits, and so on. But the fact is, these wants have less to do with any lack in my closet than the fact that I can’t see what’s in there. It’s just too stuffed.
Zurich, Switzerland
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On April 2, Page Six reported rumors that Anna Wintour, Vogue’s omnipotent editor-in-chief and Condé Nast’s artistic director, would be stepping down after closing the magazine’s September 2018 issue—a claim which Condé Nast later “emphatically” denied. The Page Six writers (three of them) also dared to suggest that Wintour would be replaced. By whom is almost irrelevant, though Page Six floated the name of British Vogue’s new editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.
Recently, at the end of a surf trip with several friends, my pal Tim passed me a pipe packed with sticky green buds. I’m not much of a social smoker (more of a one-hitter-before-chores type) so politely declined.
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Basel, Switzerland
Recently, I was invited to a “Women’s Circle” hosted by True Botanicals, a Mill Valley, California-based skincare company, at Ojai Vista Farm, a 10-acre estate on an avocado farm north of Los Angeles. Perhaps the event’s unusual title or idyllic location should have indicated it wouldn’t be the average power luncheon. But I still anticipated the afternoon with a smidge of trepidation.
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In Gwyneth Paltrow’s inaugural weekly podcast for her lifestyle brand, Goop, she interviews Oprah Winfrey in a wide-spanning conversation on the topics one might expect from two media moguls and lifestyle gurus: mindfulness and meditation, the #MeToo movement, how to ignore the haters, and so on.
The blackout on Hollywood red carpets is officially over.
There aren’t many “This old thing?” moments on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, where most actresses wear custom-made gowns loaned by designers and chosen by professional stylists. This Oscars night, Rita Moreno was a refreshing exception.
Does it feel like everyone you know just got an Instant Pot?
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As an avid cookie baker, I found myself oddly resistant to Alison Roman’s internet-famous salted butter and chocolate chunk shortbread.
There’s a famous scene in the 1989 film Say Anything in which Lloyd Dobler—a lovesick, aimless high-school graduate played by John Cusack in an oversized trench coat—stands defiantly outside the window of the woman who has recently dumped him, holding a boombox over his head with Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” on blast. It’s a fleeting scene that doesn’t actually move Cameron Crowe’s plot forward much, but it became an archetypal example of persistence in the pursuit of romance (and of Cusack’s general excellence as an offbeat romantic hero).
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“In a so-called high-pressure age we are now doing high-pressure cooking,” wrote Jane Nickerson for the the New York Times in April of 1946, and the statement is true again some 70 years later.
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In her rousing speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey said “speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.”
