Weekend Edition | 4.19

A$AP Rocky, açai and an offer you can't refuse.

19 Apr

Designed by David Alderman

By Daisy Alioto

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The new TikTok trend is “Italian brainrot”––I guess “Sicilian slop” was taken. A$AP Rocky watched The Brutalist three times. Good for him! The world eagerly awaits Durga Chew-Bose’s film adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse. “This is one of those French stories that lives for the sensuous and elemental—filled with the usual subatomic lustful vibrations of summer, the secret viciousness of young women, beautiful bikinis, buttered toasts,” says The Paris Review. 

Speaking of sensuous, Jonathan Anderson lands at Dior Men. Walden Green compares Country Lana to Robert Altman. The Midcoast Villager, a local journalism success story, has opened a cafe. Blackbird is hosting a Shy’s Burgers pop-up in Greenwich Village from April 21-23rd.  

The phrase “it had nothing to do with the açai” has permanently entered my lexicon after reading about Syndey’s açai underworld. Also permanently in my lexicon? “Group of gay investors,” the anonymous minds behind the Boy Smells rebrand which I am on the record as hating. 

At least uglier candles means less credit card debt. Miri Gordis wrote eloquently about her credit card statement this week. In the meantime, I would love to know the exact overlap between people buying the Online Ceramics x Penguin Random House collection and The School of Night (Karl Ove Knausgaard) pre-orders. I know one of our subscribers has that info! 

If you aren’t a Sayaka Murata fan, might I suggest you become one? I’m still waiting on the Convenience Store Woman film adaptation, which would be an ideal thing to screen at John Wilson’s new theater in Ridgewood––the Davos of Myrtle Avenue. ✈️