April 2023
This month has barely started and it is already action packed: Big religious holidays! Escalating global protests! Succession returned! The Barbie trailer! Gwyn-ocent! The Libra full moon did not disappoint on the chaos front, so let’s begin the roundup.
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Travel & World News
Coachella is in April + your guide to Palm Springs
NASA announces its crew for new on Artemis II mission to the moon in 2024
Jacinda Ardern’s final speech as New Zealand Prime Minister
France: pension protests continue
UK: the Guardian is launched the ‘Cost of the crown’ series
Uganda passes horrendous anti-gay law
Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
Saving Venice, Italy from Flooding
Humza Yousaf will be replacing Nicola Sturgeon as the First Minister of Scotland
Ireland is exploring what happens when artists are given a basic income
Everyone hated the new ‘We love NYC’ logo
For the second year in a row Ramadan, Passover and Easter Sunday will occur during the same weekend, UN calls to be ‘united in peace’
Culture Club
Anticipated films: Air, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning, Fast X, Dune part 2
Air Exists Because One Underemployed Guy in His 20s Saw The Last Dance
HBO’s ‘Succession’ is back with a vengeance + Apple’s ‘Shrinking’ was a hit
TikTok Hearings were embarrassing for congress
Beloved Youtube series Hot Ones gets a NYTimes profile for host Sean Evans
Poet Maggie Smith writes a popular essay about how much a man can resent and try to diminish a woman’s success
A group of AI experts and tech executives have signed an open letter calling for a pause in the development of AI systems
Beyoncé x Balmain Couture collaboration
Gwyneth Paltrow’s hilariously bonkers ski accident trial (and funny memes)
Country Music star Kelsea Ballerini performs with drag queens at CMT awards
Brooke Shield’s new docu ‘Pretty Baby’ + New Yorker profile + pod chat
Duolingo and Peacock make an April fools fake original series ‘Love Language’
Ali Wong profile in the Hollywood Reporter + Natasha Lyonne profile in Variety
Great profile on media mogul Kara Swisher + her podcast ‘On With’
Oprah hosts a conversation on menopause with Drew Barrymore, Maria Shriver, Sharon Malone, MD, and Heather Hirsch, MD
Twice impeached Trump becomes gets indicted, first to face criminal charges, and New Yorkers running MTG out of Manhattan
Ok Florida: Disney outplays gov + school got mad at Michelangelo's "David
Apple is broadening their financial services reach
Musk twitter drama: Blue check mess, Dogecoin promo, Substack block, NYTimes
Tech Founder Bob Lee is stabbed to death in San Francisco
R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Composer
Fight the Good Fight
Earth Day is on April 22, find a list of ways to get involved!
I want to celebrate GenZ and Gen Alpha getting it done by rising up, using their voices, and protesting for changes on gun control, reproductive rights, and more, which reflect the majority support of Americans in the polls, regardless of party affiliation. It is inspiring to see. A roundup of action this past month in the USA: After the recent Tennessee shooting - protests erupted and two members of the Tennessee House of Representatives were ousted (the Tennessee Three) for speaking on behalf of their constituents, AOC calls out ridiculous book bans, Wisconsin's Supreme Court flipped over reproductive rights, and Idaho becomes more extreme in controlling reproductive rights. Keep watching…
See you out there x Carrieamitchell.com