Hello, all! I hope you have a fantastic weekend! If you’re looking to get your house ready for Halloween, I had a blast rounding up fun Halloween-y items for yourself and your abode. We also chatted about what we’re looking forward to most for fall!
It was a busy week over at Drinks With Broads, where everyone got our take on The Golden Bachelor, the Jodie Turner-Smith/Pacey divorce, and the summer bestsellers of the 1990s, and paid subscribers also got to discuss Beckham, Anya Taylor-Joy’s dreamy Italian wedding, the Blossom reboot, and on-going figure-skating shenanigans. Thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed; we are having the best time writing the newsletter (and, frankly, given the depressed ad market for online publications, the income from the paid subscribers has probably insured this upcoming year of GFY, so an extra thank you!!).
I’m a big fan of Amy Odell’s Substack Back Row, and its series Retail Confessions. This week brought us an employee at a Dallas-area Louis Vuitton.
Lainey’s Mail Bag feature in today’s edition of her great Substack, The Squawk, is so juicy and interesting.
I’m strongly considering this sweater dress, at Quince. [affiliate link]
Good for him. Per Socialite Life: Idris Elba sees a therapist to work on work-life balance. Work-life balance is hard!
This video of Ginger Spice ‘breaking down her most iconic looks” is fun, at Vogue.
Tyler McCall’s Substack, Most Talkative, had a great issue today: Plus-Size Representation This Fashion Month Was Pretty Good. It’s Still Not Enough.
Fascinating, at T&C: How an Art Advisor to the Elite Allegedly Conned Her Client Friends. You know I love art cons!
I was in Hawaii last week — thank you VERY much to Heather for holding down the fort!! — and I did not think someone would get arrested for Tupac’s murder while I was gone, the same day Senator Feinstein died. That was a roller coaster ride of news alerts to wake up to! The NYT has a pretty good collection of pieces covering the Tupac developments; this was the first one I read. [gifted link]
Also a good piece from Lainey on the current state of events between Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and the NFL. I have so many complex feelings about this gossip scenario but I also sort of want them to run off and get married???
So interesting, at VF: “Sold Out? Gab Waller Can Help: The global fashion-sourcing mastermind has earned a reputation for finding her clients, like Sofia Richie Grainge, Hailey Bieber, Khloé Kardashian, Jen Atkin, and Lori Harvey, any fashion piece they desire—regardless of how rare or in demand.”
This entire thing was a mess, and I don’t blame these writers for making this call: Drew Barrymore’s WGA writers decide not to return to her show. Drew really stepped in this one. [Celebitchy]
This will be fun to argue about: The Best Hot Sauces According to Cooks, Recipe Developers, and the Strategist Staff. [Grub Street]
And I will REALLY fight about this one: Which Boxed Mac and Cheese Is Best? (My feeling is that boxed mac and cheese is a specific foodstuff VERY DISTINCT from actual homemade macaroni and cheese and it’s made by Kraft, THE END. Much like how Taco Bell is not Mexican food, it is TACO BELL. It is its own thing!) [Bon Appetit]
This is cool: Broken Zipper? France Will Pay to Get It Fixed. [Reasons to Be Cheerful]
Fascinating: Inside the NFL’s careful, complicated embrace of sports gambling. [WaPo, gifted link]
The Ringer wonders, Why Did So Many of Baseball’s Biggest Spenders Flop This Season?
Texas Monthly reports: Frank Lloyd Wright Built Just One Freestanding Theater in His Lifetime. Dallas Has Let It Fall Into Disrepair.
I had been wondering this. At USA Today: “Study shows Powerball online buying is rising. See why else the jackpot has grown so high.” We cannot buy tickets online in California, but I like to go chat with the guy at the convenience store anyway.
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