You’ve stocked up on all the canned beans, pasta, and frozen food you could fit in your reusable bags. Now what? With government officials warning the spread of COVID-19 may get worse before it gets better, it’s only natural for thoughts to race. Even if you’re one of the lucky ones who can work from home, sometimes you still need a little distraction—and with two weeks’ worth of food in your pantry, cooking can be that for you.
Whether social distancing means you plan on turning your kitchen counter into a fancy coffee shop, or the time has come to perfect that gooey chocolate chip cookie recipe in your Bookmarks Tab, here are 15 easy and chic kitchen update ideas to make cooking at home more fun.
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In the past, pop culture has portrayed Emily Dickinson as something of a lonely spinster—a weird recluse who spent her days gardening and writing poems that wouldn’t be published until after her death in 1886. It’s true that Dickinson never married and preferred isolation in her later years, sure, but there’s so much more to her story. And Dickinson, now available for streaming on Apple TV+, is here to tell it.
“Emily Dickinson’s life was defined by these great ironies,” explains series creator Alena Smith. “She wrote nearly 2,000 poems, one of the greatest bodies of work ever written in the English language, and almost none of it was ever published or recognized while she lived. How she found the will to keep going as an artist and where that drive came from was so fascinating to me.”
Smith’s vision: Use the 1850s—a crucial period in Dickinson’s life—as a lens for today. The result? A fresh coming-of-age tale starring Hailee Steinfeld as the titular poet. While the setting is squarely in the 19th century, Dickinson draws parallels to the present through modern music and winks at current events. In episode one, for example, Dickinson imagines meeting Death (played by Wiz Khalifa, naturally) while “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish blares in the background. In another, a period-appropriate dance ends with everyone twerking.
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Using these 2019 updates, Smith explains, gives viewers a direct look into Dickinson’s inner life—this is a woman who’s at war with her rigid Victorian society. “If Emily Dickinson was an artist who was quite misunderstood in her own time, maybe we can understand her better in ours,” Smith says. “Just as Emily’s poems were breaking the rules and ahead of her time, this show is just trying to catch up with her in a way.” So Dickinson is not a literal transcription of Dickinson’s life—think of it more as a translation. Everything is rooted in fact, just with a 21st-century twist.
Steinfeld found another parallel between Dickinson and today’s millennial women. “In the show Emily goes back and forth about, ‘Do I even want to have an audience?’ Because all you want when you don’t have one is to have one. And then you start to actually get into the reality of having an audience, and you’re like, ‘This could be the worst possible thing ever.’ I think that has a lot to do with what millennials are dealing with today. You can seek attention and receive it [with social media], but once you get it and realize it’s not what you want, you kind of can’t turn back.”
A week after the Supreme Court announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been treated for pancreatic cancer—her fourth cancer diagnosis, and her second of pancreatic cancer—Ginsburg herself decided to share an update about her health. On Saturday (August 31), while appearing at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., she addressed the crowd with some dry humor.
“As this audience can see I am alive. And I’m on my way to being very well,” she said, according to People.
Ginsburg, who’s lovingly nicknamed “The Notorious RBG,” also said she’d be “prepared” for when the Supreme Court’s next session kicks off again. “We have more than a month yet to go. I will be prepared when the time comes.”
“I love my job. It’s the best and the hardest job that I have ever had. It’s kept me going through four cancer battles,” she continued. “Instead of concentrating on my aches and pains, I just know that I have to read this set of briefs, go over the draft opinion. I have to somehow surmount whatever is going on in my body and concentrate on the court’s work.”
Ginsburg, who is famously dedicated to her job—last December, she registered her opposition to Trump’s asylum reform bill from her hospital bed—spoke in a very similar vein in July. During an interview with NPR, she seemed to reference the late Kentucky senator Jim Bunning, who, after one of her cancer diagnoses, said he thought she’d be dead in a year. “There was a senator, I think it was after the pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I’ve forgotten, is now himself dead. And I am very much alive,” Ginsburg said.
She mentioned then too how her work is what kept her going. “The work is really what saved me because I had to concentrate on reading the briefs, doing a draft of an opinion, and I knew it had to get done,” she said in the July NPR interview. “So I had to get past whatever my aches and pains were just to do the job.”
We hate to break it to you, but summer’s almost over—which means it’s time to start thinking about what you’re going to wear when it’s cold out. This doesn’t have to be a painful exercise: You can rationalize that, yes, puff-sleeved sweaters are a must, and that plenty of other pieces are worth the investment because they’re on sale.
There are always a few pieces you always know you’ll need—the knit, the jacket, the sneaker… Instead of buying the same-old, same-old, we’ve pulled up some exciting alternatives to consider. There’s the leopard print midi to wear instead of a plain black skirt, the tie-dyed denim if you can’t stand to look at your favorite pair of jeans, and the cow-print cowboy boots that’ll upgrade your yeehaw for fall.
Shop the fall 2019 wardrobe upgrades that’ll bring you much more joy than whatever’s currently in your closet.
Whenever you start getting sick of your day-to-day outfits, you don’t need to start from scratch. Those wardrobe essentials are supposed to live in your closet for a long time (hence why they’re worth investing in). But the most reliable staples are also some of the most basic: the little black dress, the white T-shirt, the jean… They’re blank canvases you can project your mood, your favorite trend, or your aesthetic-of-the-moment onto. All you need are the right accessories.
The most basic outfits can be totally transformed with the help of a few key accessories. You can wear your LBD to work with red block-heel pumps, and then to brunch with a playful beaded bag; your beloved sweats-and-denim combo with snakeskin mules to a meeting and with slides to run errands. Ahead, see how shoes, bags, jewelry, and hair accessories can freshen up your favorite pieces in 2019.
UPDATE: JANUARY 25, 2019, AT 12:17 P.M ET — There’s been an exciting development in the saga of The Princess Diaries 3. For those of you who have been following along, we know that Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews are both down to reprise their regal roles in the beloved movie franchise and that a script for a third chapter exists. Even still, though, the project hasn’t officially been green-lit.
Hathaway doubled-down on all of this when she stopped by Watch What Happens Live Thursday night (January 24), telling host Andy Cohen, “There is a script for the third movie. I want to do it. Julie [Andrews] wants to do it. Debra Martin Chase, our producer, wants to do it. We all really want it to happen. It’s just we don’t want to do it unless it’s perfect, because we love it just as much as you guys love it. It’s as important to us as it is to you. And we don’t want to deliver anything until it’s ready, but we’re working on it.”
I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. From this quote—and what’s been said in the past—it seems like The Princess Diaries 3 still has some hurdles to jump through before it hits theaters. But regardless, it’s comforting to know Hathaway is just as amped on the idea as we are.
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The Princess Diaries is one of pop culture’s crown jewels. The film series gave us so much: Julie Andrews eating a corndog, Mandy Moore’s greatest song of all time (“Stupid Cupid,” of course), a newfound appreciation for M&Ms—the list goes on. It also launched the career of Anne Hathaway, one of Hollywood’s most decorated actresses. The first two movies are cherished by millennials across the world, and we’ve been waiting on pins and needles for any news about a third installment.
Andrews herself started this chatter when she told BuzzFeed that she and Hathaway are down to make a third movie as a tribute to the late Gary Marshall, who directed the first two chapters.
“I think we might do it in honor of [Marshall],” Andrews said. “Annie had an idea that she wanted to pursue about it, and I’m all for it, so if she’d like to.”
Things escalated when Robert Schwartzman, who played Mia’s first boyfriend, Michael, told Glamour he’s also down to return. “It’d be cool to at least have the conversation about it if they want to do it,” he said.
This is all conjecture, though. Truthfully, it’s just actors humoring the press with vague but optimistic statements about a possible sequel. Stars do this all the time—cough, Big Little Lies, cough—and it tends to get fans’ hopes up prematurely. No one on Team Princess Diaries has said anything concrete about movie three.
Well, until now. Meg Cabot, who wrote the Princess Diaries book series, told Entertainment Weekly that a script for the third movie exists; it’s just a matter of when—and if—everyone wants to do it.
The author also confirmed Andrews’ statement about people wanting to make a third film “as a tribute” to Marshall. “So who knows? [It] could happen, as we say,” she said.
Unfortunately, Cabot didn’t reveal what the third script is about. “I am not allowed to say,” she said. “I would love to sit and talk about [it], but I can’t. I’m not allowed. But it’s really more following the movie than the books.”
She continued, “I think of [the books and movies] as two different universes. Like there’s The Princess Diaries universe that I created, which is, you know, amazing, and the Disney universe, that they created, which is equally amazing. And, you know, there’s fans of both, and fans who actually kind of like both of them at the same time.”
