Jenni Avins

Please picture this case in front of Judge Judy.

Last week, I returned to work after some time away to get married. Twice! We divided our wedding into two celebrations on opposite coasts of the US, to make the most of our time with our family and friends. These occasions were each deeply, fundamentally awesome. The confluence of dearest loved ones embracing, laughing, dancing, eating, and just hanging out created some of the happiest memories I’ve got in the bank.

The neuroscientist and author Joseph LeDoux has called anxiety “the price we pay for an ability to imagine the future.”

Walmart is curious about cannabis. On Tuesday (Oct. 9), a Walmart spokesperson told Reuters that the company’s Canadian division has done “preliminary fact-finding” on cannabis-derived products, but has no immediate plans to enter the industry.

Of all the essential equipment in my kitchen—the Kitchen-Aid mixer, the Le Creuset Dutch oven, the Instant Pot—there is one piece that rises above all the rest when it comes to delivering a delicious meal. It is made of light blue ceramic, fits in the palm of my hand, and has a top shaped like a small whale.

It was a “very stressful weekend” for the Hubble telescope, according to astronomer Rachel Osten, the telescope’s deputy mission head.

Google announced on Monday (Oct. 8) that it plans to shut down the consumer version of its Google+ social network over the next 10 months. In a blog post, Google disclosed that the social network has low usage and that 90% of user sessions last less than five seconds. It will live on as a “secure corporate social network” for businesses, said Google, adding that it will share more news about the enterprise version of Google+ in coming days.

US first lady Melania Trump is in Africa this week for humanitarian reasons, but she also may be attempting to resurrect Ralph Lauren’s now-defunct Safari clothing line. On a short safari in Kenya, she wore a crisp white button-up shirt, khaki jodhpurs, knee-high riding boots, and a blazing white pith helmet.

MedMen, a Los Angeles-based chain of cannabis dispensaries with stores in California, Nevada, and New York is working hard to become a household name. This year, the company has opened a flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, gone public on the Canadian stock exchange with a $1.6 billion valuation, and now, is launching its own in-house product line of cannabis flowers, pre-rolled joints, vaporizers, and tinctures to sell alongside the products already offered in its dispensaries.

Boobs are great. They come in all colors, shapes, and sizes, and are beloved by women, men, and babies alike. And they are all the rage right now. Not just any boobs, but fun, happy, cartoon boobs. These boobs are decidedly un-porny, not particularly sexual, and pretty friendly looking. They’re design boobs and they’re coming soon to a tote bag, towel rack, or throw pillow near you.

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Neil Waller and his cofounders started Whalar in 2016 after using social media to advertise their watch brand, Shore Projects, and struggling with the lack of infrastructure surrounding it. As the influencer advertising market has sky-rocketed since, it has become rife with fake followers, shady bots, and murky regulations. Today, Whalar is an agency and online platform that helps brands including Dior, Ralph Lauren, Topshop, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, and Adidas navigate this $2 billion advertising market and connect with social media influencers to co-create and execute their marketing campaigns. Here’s how.

Pack your axe, Brooklyn lumberjack. Pick up your caftan, Silver Lake shaman. There’s a new throwback fashion icon in town. She is the “urban pioneer girl,” and she may be distinguished by the presence of a bonnet.

High-end luxury was once about scarcity and price-tags that made designer items rare investments. The RealReal, the leader in the the $6 billion global luxury resale market, turns that paradigm on its head by encouraging shoppers to buy pre-owned goods at a discount. The company, a high-end consignment service valued at $450 million, offers clients a chance to resell items they no longer wear, and gives them a cut of the sale price. The RealReal has consigned over 8 million pieces of pre-owned luxury clothing, accessories, and home goods via its website, pop-ups, and stores in New York and Los Angeles, and has over 9 million members. Rati Levesque, The RealReal’s San Francisco-based chief merchant, studied economics and owned a high-end boutique before she helped launch the company in 2011.

If you’ve ever planned a wedding, you may be familiar with the feeling of hemorrhaging money. My own is three weeks away, and I’m fairly certain I lost $3,000 just opening my email this morning. Thanks to Instagram influencer Chiara Ferragni, I now realize that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

On their faces, Thomas Page McBee and Bill Cunningham don’t appear to have much in common.

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Of all the world’s productivity hacks, apps, and tools, there is one that supersedes all others for me. It is simple to the point of genius, and it’s free: http://e.ggtimer.com/pomodoro.

Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old Iowa college student who had been missing since July 18, was found dead on Tuesday (Aug. 21), after a man named Cristhian Bahena Rivera led police to her body. Police say Rivera, a 24-year-old farmworker who is accused of abducting and murdering Tibbetts, confessed to circling around Tibbetts in his car as she jogged and getting out and running alongside her, before he said he blacked out.

US senator John McCain—a celebrated war hero and former GOP presidential candidate—has died of brain cancer, at age 81. He was diagnosed just over a year ago, and has struggled with related health problems ever since.

This week, Scotland became the first nation in the world to guarantee free sanitary products to all students at schools, colleges, and universities. It’s part of a £5.2 million ($6.7 million) government plan to fight “period poverty”—the problems faced by women who struggle to cover their basic needs while menstruating.

Among the many memorable images of this year’s royal wedding was that of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry leaving Windsor Castle for their reception in a sky-blue Jaguar convertible—she in a high-necked Stella McCartney white gown, he in a dapper tux. A video of the couple leaving their driveway in the car, smiling and waving in the evening light, has been viewed millions of times, making it quite possibly the most valuable free car commercial of the modern era. The same day, Kensington Palace shared that the car was a converted Jaguar E-Type, originally manufactured in 1968, and since converted to electric power.

This article contains details of the season three premiere HBO’s Insecure, debuting Aug. 12.

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