This is not a gift guide.
But today's edition might read like one.
Welcome to A Few Good Mentions, a weekly (or so) toss-up of five random, share-worthy things I might come across, see, read, do, or eat in a given week. You can find me on Instagram, and my website, which I try my best to update with latest published works. Ok, let’s go!
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For the self-examining pop culture intellect who refuses to read any more commentary around the Harry & Meghan doc because he likens the emptiness of the experience to consuming a box of styrofoam peanuts: here are two, very smart, insightful pieces on the latest season of White Lotus. From the New York Times Magazine, an examination of affluence and passivity portrayed alongside Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Trilogy of Decadence,” including a shot-for-shot homage from the film L’Avventura in one of the eopisodes. And from Vox, how the ugly American tourist is miserably and obliviously front-and-center at the luxury Sicilian property.
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For your fashion colleague, an editor, who recently took in the Basquiat King Pleasure exhibition and regrets not buying a second pair of the cool, colorful, and supremely comfortable tube socks in the gift shop: Here’s a whole collection of fashionable reasons to revisit the show before the end of the month.
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For your girlfriend who just traded her one-bedroom in Brooklyn for a mid-century bungalow in east Nashville: some majorly aspirational home design inspo, and an awesome new bff named Libby to share her golden keys to the city.
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For anyone who just. Needs. To. SMILE.
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For the stylishly-discerning neighbor who’s constantly traveling, and loves coming home to her tidy apartment too much to contend with a messy pet, and therefore would never know this funzo, colorfully vibrant floor cushion is actually intended for canines.