Jenni Avins

US president Donald Trump’s Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again (pdf) is out, and as expected, the US agencies charged with preserving and supporting the country’s cultural and artistic life are on the chopping block. The budget proposes eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, among others.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest book, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, is addressed to a friend who wants to raise a feminist daughter. But addressing the Women of the World Festival in London on Saturday, Adichie stressed that feminism isn’t just for girls—and that sexism is harmful to boys too (33:22 in the video below):

Earlier this week Gizmodo editor Tom Scocca resurfaced his heroic effort to expose the truth that caramelizing onions takes a hell of a lot longer than most recipes (and Google) would have you believe. While many recipes cite an absurd five or 10 minutes for getting the soft, golden, sweet onions required to enrich a multitude of dishes, the truth is that it often takes closer to 45—45!—minutes of stirring over a a skillet.

On Friday, the administration of US president Donald Trump requested that 46 Obama-era US attorneys submit their resignations. Replacing a former administration’s prosecutors is not unusual in itself. But one name on the list came as a surprise: Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.

“I am so shrieking old,” wrote Canadian author Margaret Atwood in a Reddit “ask me anything” earlier this week. At 77, the author of the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale is having a moment. The book’s sales have surged, likely due to what some call the “Trump bump” for dystopian literature, and a Hulu adaptation of the story starring Elizabeth Moss will premiere on April 26.

It’s an infuriating irony that the field of women’s fashion remains largely dominated by men. In 2015, New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman noted that fewer than 20% of the labels showing at Paris Fashion Week had female creative directors. Chanel? Karl Lagerfeld. Louis Vuitton? Nicolas Ghesquière. Yves Saint Laurent? Then, Hedi Slimane. Now, Anthony Vaccarello.

At a rally in Istanbul on Saturday, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at the Netherlands, after Dutch officials banned a rally in Rotterdam in his support and revoked permission for Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to address expatriate voters there.

Hillary Clinton spent part of her International Women’s Day (March 8) accepting an award from the non-profit Girls Inc. After addressing the work of the advocacy group, which strives to provide mentoring, safe places for sisterhood in low-income neighborhoods, after-school programs, and scholarships, Clinton paused.

When it comes to retirement plans, you could do a lot worse than “wasting away in Margaritaville,” as the 1977 hit by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett describes:

The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi didn’t attend the Academy Awards tonight to accept the Oscar for his film The Salesman, which won in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. He canceled his plans to travel for the ceremony, he has said, because of “the unjust circumstances” created by US president Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from several Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.

Sunday night at the Oscars, we’ll likely see writers, actors, and directors use their time at the podium to lambast the policies of US president Donald Trump, as they have at other awards shows.

On Thursday (Feb. 16), Marc Jacobs closed New York Fashion Week with a collection that included track pants, oversized fur collars, bucket hats, and heavy pendants and chains that unmistakably drew from early hip-hop culture. It was a bold move. Last season the designer, who is white, drew the ire of the internet when he showed his Spring/Summer 2017 collection on a cast of largely white models wearing rainbow dreadlocks.

We’ve long known that Beyoncé walks like a goddess among us. Her performance at Sunday night’s Grammy awards, pregnant with twins and glowing, drove that point home.

On the first day of US Black History Month, Beyoncé sent the world a digital Valentine in the form of an Instagram announcing that she and her husband Jay Z are expecting twins, with this extraordinary photo:

The world learned today that Beyoncé and her husband, Jay Z, are expecting twins. The pop star made the announcement via Instagram, with a self-portrait (not just a “selfie”) that no one other than Beyoncé—save perhaps her sister, Solange—could have pulled off.

The benefits of volunteering are well-established: It’s good for your body, your mind, and your employment prospects, not to mention, you know, society as a whole. But finding the right opportunity, the one that you’ll commit to and integrate into your life as seamlessly as a solid workout routine or cooking regimen, can be incredibly overwhelming—which might be one reason Americans are doing less volunteering.

Model Hanne Gaby Odiele has been the face of myriad fashion brands, appearing in advertisements and on the runway for Zara, Alexander Wang, Gucci, Prada, Marc Jacobs, and many more. On Jan. 23 she stepped in front of the camera for a different kind of campaign, revealing that she was born intersex—which is to say, with an anatomy that didn’t fit the typical definitions of male or female—and became the face of InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth.

Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway was giddy Friday morning as she prepared for the inauguration of her boss. For the occasion, she wore a red, white, and blue coat with two rows of gold-tone buttons that resemble the heads of lions.

In one week, a Kickstarter campaign called We the People, which aims to get public art into the hands of demonstrators for Donald Trump’s inauguration, has raised more than $1.2 million.

I rarely spend more than $20 on a bottle of wine. Often, it’s closer to $10. It’s not that I’m unwilling, unable, or philosophically opposed to pricier bottles—it’s just that I don’t know how to make my dollars count.

In her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement at the 2017 Golden Globes on Sunday (Jan. 8), Meryl Streep used the podium to deliver a scathing review of another performance, that of president-elect Donald Trump during his presidential campaign:

When Ryan Gosling won the 2017 Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy film, for his performance in La La Land, he came onstage and acknowledged, as actors often do: “You don’t get to be up here without standing on the shoulders of a mountain of people.”

While some of the fashion world’s most powerful designers have been blurring gender lines on the runway for several seasons now, Hollywood’s red carpets have been slow to follow, generally adhering to the standby rule of men in tuxes and women in gowns.

In the new year, many of us resolve to cook more often—a habit that’s healthier, cheaper, and often more enjoyable than eating out or ordering Seamless. Yet it can be hard to find the time to devote to meal preparation, much less creative menu-planning.