Good food makes for good memories, best savoured and enjoyed in fine company of John and Farhana despite not the best experience inside the Hartsyard restaurant on Enmore Road in Newtown.
Not so Promising Young Yard Woman as we met post COVID cruela like no other at Dot Lee’s HartsYard last night
From 2021 AD customer service complaints to one that of you readers sent this in and I laughed. It’s from 2015 but…timeless, actually: 4,000-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet is Oldest Customer Service Complaint Ever Discovered [Ancient Origins]
This post about favorite cookbooks might be very relevant to your interests. [The Stripe]
Proposing an Alternative To Renting or Owning a House: Publicly-Owned Housing Atlantic
There’s a new trailer for Cruella. [Socialite Life]
This is VERY fascinating: The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make [BBC]
Really interesting, and alarming: The Virus, the Vaccine, and the Dark Side of Wellness. [Harper’s Bazaar]
Very educational: The Dostoevsky Dash: the Reasons for Dashed Out Information in Literature [Book Riot]
Really interesting, at the LA Times: How the people who serve you survived the last year. (I recognized the bartender from the Tam O’Shanter! That’s one of the best places to go during the holidays in LA and it was really missed this year by a lot of people.)
At The Curvy Fashionista: LOFT Takes The Ax To Plus Sizes; That’s Not Even The First Mistake They Made. I was really surprised to see this from LOFT, both because this decision was announced haphazardly, but also because, anecdotally, LOFT’s plus size stuff always sells pretty well in our analytics and I would have extrapolated that to think it was doing well elsewhere.
This is great, also at Lainey: Her Name Is Thandiwe.
Refinery 29 asks a good question: Why Do Fashion People Love Virginia Woolf So Much?
I know you want to read this! ‘The ball is tipped’: Recollections of ‘One Shining Moment’ [Associated Press]
This is a classic entry in the Vanity Fair file of Articles About Rich People’s Bad Behavior: Private Jets, Mega-mansions, And Broken Hearts: Inside The Messy, Litigious Breakup Of An Onlyfans Model And Her Über-wealthy Boyfriend. This poor woman!
At The Cut: An Interview With the Man Who Keeps Uploading My Feet to WikiFeet.
Amazing: New England woman wears same dress for 100 days in a row and ‘no one notices’ [News Center Maine]
So interesting: Hidden Under a Chicken Coop: The “Louvre” of Wine[Messy Nessy Chic]
WOW: A Pair of Thieves Broke Into a Houston Art Museum, Then Escaped by Boat [Texas Monthly]
Finally, at The Atlantic: For One Glorious Summer, Americans Will Vacation Like the French.