A magnificent ship full of gay men and Patti LuPone. A Little House for our times. And a controversial makeup trend that is, at least, free. |
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Patti LuPone’s Cursed Gay Cruise Tales from the strangest ports of call on the internet.
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Every week, Becca Schuh harvests tweets for us. This week, we boarded a gay cruise with a Broadway legend, got on the horn with Mitch McConnell, and heard from Aunt Lena.
Patti LuPone had a poetic response to a gay cruise not being let into Turkey.
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Left with ambiguous information about Mitch McConnell’s health or lack thereof, the people began to riff. |
We are all tired of the wedding discourse, but I found a few nuggets of gold. |
I want what they’re having! |
Margaret Qualley heard the siren call of Lena Dunham’s wedding speech. |
And to tie it all together … |
Zohran’s newest malfeasance is that his wife boarded a plane. |
I actually think we could fix the dating apps if every man was a former member of the Blue Man Group. |
I like it when someone points out the fun parts of the smartphone era because we really do focus on the negative most of the time. |
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Photo-Illustration: Susanna Hayward; Photos: Netflix, NBC/Getty Images
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So many artifacts of millennials’ childhoods feel too racist to share with our kids. (Have you tried watching The Jerk recently? Oh my god.) The Little House on the Prairie books are definitely on the “not ready to have that conversation” list at my house, as much as I loved them as a kid. A new TV adaptation tells the story of the Ingalls family but also of the Osage people whose land they were trying to claim, Kathryn VanArendonk writes.
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The streamer adaptation is designed to neither undermine Wilder’s account nor discard her child’s-eye point of view. It remains remarkably, improbably hopeful from beginning to end. But its optimism and warmth are not placid, and they’re not easily won. The intent of this adaptation, Gorman Wettels tells me, “is to face the problematic nature of the historical text head-on.” Ma is still terrified of Indians; episode three includes a scene from Wilder’s novel in which two Native Americans storm into the Ingallses’ home while Pa is away and eat all their cornbread. But the whole framing of that scene has shifted. One of the intruders is an Osage man named Little Puma, the uncle of Laura’s best friend, Good Eagle, whose mixed-race family, the Mitchells, are some of the Ingallses’ closest neighbors. This is not the nameless, savage figure of Wilder’s book, and the show takes pains to make clear that his anger and resentment are justified.
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Kathryn watched the series with her kids, and I might do the same (if I can pry them away from Glee). |
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Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Courtesy of Kelli Anne Sewell, Retailers |
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Uh-oh, mascara is cheugy now?! That’s what makeup artist Kelli Anne Sewell tells our resident beauty expert Carol Lee. She has created no-mascara looks for Kelsea Ballerini and Alix Earle, and she herself hasn’t worn mascara in a year. You still have to curl your lashes and create a “focal point” somewhere else on your face — your lips, for example. She told Carol why she thinks the trend is happening.
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I stopped wearing mascara last year, and now I don’t even think to put it on, even when I’m going out. I’m so used to myself without mascara that when I put it on, I’m like, Oh, I’m done up. There’s something super-edgy about no-mascara looks, and I think it’s a really cool thing to do. It shows a lot of confidence, because it’s paring it back and being really comfortable in your skin, which also comes with the privilege of aging and seeing that you’re beautiful the way you are.
We’re seeing a lot of people dissolving filler and scaling back these overly done, overly enhanced looks. That’s just the way trends work — we snap back from certain extremes. I honestly think no-mascara looks are even more feasible for working women, moms, and people who are like, I want to feel fabulous in five seconds. So while it has a cool-girl vibe to it, I also think it’s a very functional look.
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To prevent the people in your life from asking if you’re okay, you can transition to a brown mascara first before quitting entirely. I’m also putting in a plug here for getting a lash lift and tint — for me, it lasts three months. While I used to find the procedure claustrophobic because you have to keep your eyes closed for so long, I now find it downright relaxing. |
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Photo: Michael Steele/Getty Images |
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It’s come to my attention that a lot of you have never seen Truth or Dare. Stream it here. This is mandatory. |
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A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse. |
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