Julia Turner

It Has Pockets! How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion

You may not know Claire McCardell's name, but if you're an American woman or know one, you know her work. She was an inventive & influential midcentury fashion designer who freed women from all kinds of strictures, social and literal. Reviewed a terrific new bio: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Praised be! Knobs and buttons 4-ever.

(And bring them back on washer/dryers too!)

Bass aides were warned of growing fire danger before she flew to Ghana L.A.'s mayor said she wasn't told about the wind forecast before flying to Ghana. But the city's Emergency Management Department sent weather advisories one day earlier.

Guess whose office WAS warned about the extreme fire risk before her trip to Ghana? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Mayor Bass opens up about trip to Ghana during LA fires: 'I felt absolutely terrible' Mayor Bass told FOX 11 that no advance warnings were given to her about the weather and wind event prior to leaving the country.

Karen Bass' astonishing new line is that *no one told her about the windstorm* before she went to Ghana. www.foxla.com/news/mayor-b...

How Many Buddy Comedies Feature Two Black Women? One of Them Days is a hit.

If this week's culture podcast has one takeaway, it's "See 'One of Them Days.'" Fun gab this week: slate.com/podcasts/cul...

Really fun to dissect why the Dylan movie works so well and to have the whole gang back together!

Oscars Ceremony to Stream Live on Hulu for the First Time For the first time in history, the Oscars will be streamed live on Hulu.

About time!

variety.com/2024/film/aw...

WHEEEEEEEEEEE
Elf on a shelf NASA training

Gotta say this dialogue between a newsnation anchor and incarcerated prisoners is some of the most compelling live tv I’ve seen in a while.

Available here, if you took that road: www.etsy.com/listing/1219...

What if the road not taken was the one leading to a life where this tissue box cover made perfect sense:

Sneakers fandom unite!

Curtains

Curtains, 1885

https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12489/

Me welcoming new followers & showing them around Bluesky:

Does The Apprentice Make Trump Sympathetic? We discuss the nature of biopics – and why we can’t resist making them.

Fun @SlateCultFest this week: Two movies set in the gritty NYC of the 1970s about young legends making their names. (The Apprentice has more to say on Donald Trump than Saturday Night does on Lorne Michaels.)
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Demi Moore Gives Substance to The Substance Wait, does she? Maybe not. Watch this space.

The Substance is not very good but it is VERY fun to look at and VERY fun to talk about, and we had a blast discussing it with Wesley Morris and exploring his GOBSMACKINGLY good podcast about Stevie Wonder on this week's show: slate.com/podcasts/cul...

If You’re Into Organized Crime, This Might Be the Show For You Enter: The Penguin on Max.

On this week's pod we talk PENGUIN and what exactly Farrell is doing (pirouettes!) under all that latex, plus a perfect growing-up movie that will make you want to be a cranberry farmer in Canada.

Listen here: slate.com/podcasts/cul...

Rebel Ridge’s Violent Ode to Nonviolence Each of Aaron Pierre’s eyes deserve an Oscar nod!

Finally, a profoundly great film about the bizarre, heartbreaking, boring, dada limbo that is hospice. Vivacious @SlateCultFest this week on "His Three Daughters" and more...
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Can Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Revive Tim Burton? The grim fairy tale teller is back, along with much of the original cast.

New Slate Culture Gabfest on Tim Burton getting his groove back: slate.com/podcasts/cul...

The Fall Guy Is a Love Letter to Stunts Tom Cruise-sized spoofs ensue.

On this week's Slate Culture Gabfest we discuss the irresistible (except to Julia) The Fall Guy, the spooky/queer/inscrutable I Saw the TV Glow, & the campus protests of the war in Gaza w/ @polgreen.bsky.social, who's been on the student-protest beat for the @nytimes.com. slate.com/podcasts/cul...