The Roundup: August sipped away like a bottle of wine
Is it really August? Or are you Julying to me?
August 2022
Here we are August, in the final stretch of summer, so let’s soak it up before we start to wistfully reminisce over the season while singing that Taylor Swift song. Of course in my humble opinion, September is one of the greatest months of the year, as top tier festivals, films, fashion shows and more begin, when people return to the cities after a summer of play. I too have exciting projects & announcements ahead, and a fun theme+interview newsletter next, but for now I will continue my media addiction and share the roundup of recent reading and news - the good and bad. So pour yourself a cold summer cocktail, here we go…
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Travel: Exploring America
Explore America this summer: Follow my Travel Oracles: 50 state series on my blog and learn about travel, culture & history state to state
Actress Kerry Washington has a charming youtube series ‘Street you grew up on’ exploring the fun differences in where Americans were raised
More US expats: LATimes Americans are flooding Mexico City, Bloomberg More Americans are relocating to Europe
NYT: It’s Never Too Late to Learn the Tango and Fall in Love
T+L: You Can Legally Buy a Passport From Another Country (if you’re rich)
Economist: In no sector is the lack of staff so glaring as in air travel
Global climate: Record heat in Europe, record floods in Kentucky
A Russian court sentenced US WNBA star Brittney Griner to 9 years
Tensions between China & US from Pelosi & US officials trip to Taiwan
The parade of country leader resignations: United Kingdom, Italy, Sri Lanka
Culture Club
NASA and many others pay tribute to recently passed Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as Lt. Uhura on “Star Trek”
More on Space: Incredible first Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Pope Francis apologizes to Canadian Indigenous communities for Roman Catholic role in terrible residential school system and abuse
New Yorker read on Americans aged 62 holding high student debt
Great career planning advice from media pro Evan Shapiro
Instagram gets backlash from users as it tries to be TikTok
Beyonce’s new album ‘Renaissance’ + Lizzo’s new album Special 5-star reviews
The hit show ‘The Bear’ gets restaurant kitchen culture right (+ pasta recipe)
Watch the new trailer for Marvel’s ‘Black Panther Wakanda Forever’
Variety: The fabulous Jennifer Coolidge interview & cover of the current issue
Hollywood Reporter: New ‘Yellowjackets’ season is coming, read cast interview
New HBO Docs: Paul Newman & Joanna Woodward, and Princess Diana
Netflix filmmakers should be haunted for their terrible Persuasion adaptation, so I made a list of better Austen adaptations
Podcast listens: Malcolm Gladwell’s new season of ‘Revisionist History’ and Dax Shephard’s Armchair Expert funny new subseries ‘Armchair Anonymous’
“Desus & Mero” is officially ending after four seasons at Showtime
Remembering basketball legend & civil rights activist Bill Russell
Remembering another ‘Goodfella’ actor Paul Sorvino
Fight the Good Fight
Yay to Kansas for voting to preserve abortion rights! (Visit Bansoff.org)
Yay to medical students walking out on their whitecoat ceremony in protest
Yay to Jon Stewart for pushing lawmakers to pass a bill to extend health benefits to veterans exposed to burn pits
Yay to the Sandy Hook parents for nailing psycho Alex Jones in court, with three more trials to go!
We are less than 100 days out from the midterm elections, of which key issues are at stake, so be sure to prepare and turn out