March 2023
Hello and welcome to Women’s History Month! Per usual, there is far too much going on, so let’s skip the intro and giddyup…
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Travel & World News
Conde Nast Traveler’s Women Who Travel Power List 2023
Some St Patricks Day history, and Chicago’s annual tradition of dyeing river green
Black Soldiers Cycled 1,900 Miles Across the U.S. So He Did, Too
Paris wants to clean the Seine for the 2024 Olympics
Eva Longoria launches her new show “Searching for Mexico”
Medical Tourism gone wrong with drug cartel
Argentina inflation soars past 100% mark
Spain officially launched their digital nomad visa
The upcoming costly coronation of Charles III, more Camilla drama, no one wants to perform, more commonwealth countries looking to leave the fold
A string of close calls across US airports + severe turbulence on a Lufthansa flight
The DOJ sues to block JetBlue-Spirit merger
Culture Club
Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the swift response (hence the gif)
Oscar winners, memorable moments & Studio A24 producing all best actor wins
TV: Finale of ‘Last of Us’, upcoming (final) season of ‘Succession’ and ‘Ted Lasso’
Sports: The new season of F1’s “Drive to Survive” , the recent NBA dunk competition winner + the upcoming NCAA ‘march madness’ tournament
Pedro Pascal on “Hot Ones”, Shania Twain on “Chicken Shop Date”
Disney’s storytelling/robot presentation at this year’s SXSW event in Austin
NYT Opinion: The New Middle Age (for millennials & xennials)
AI Wars: Big new Google AI products announced + GPT 4 launches
Ezra Klein for the NYT on AI changing everything
Creators: New TikTok ‘series’ option + more confusing Instagram changes
Walgreens makes a stupid decision, consumers leave + California cancels contract
Law Roach, one of the biggest fashion stylists in the game, suddenly “retires”
Disgraced former SC attorney Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murder
An essay from Matthew Desmond on poverty in America
As Phantom of the Opera winds down, its musicians are losing the job they’ve had for decades (rare for Broadway)
A man asked Elon Musk via Twitter if he had been fired, and of course Musk was an ass/wrong about it (also he has fired the HR/PR teams)
BBC gets dragged on Twitter for publishing a “study” shown to be largely false/without context study around mental health during the pandemic
RIP Richard Belzer, Judy Heumann, and President Carter goes to Hospice
Fight the Good Fight
March is Women’s History Month, March 8th was International Women’s Day, and March 14th was Equal Pay Day. So in the words of business legend Cindy Gallop: Today - and EVERY OTHER DAY - don't use words like 'empower' and 'celebrate'. Instead, use words like 'hire', 'promote', 'pay', 'raise', 'bonus', 'fund', 'invest in', 'enrich', 'give equity to', 'elect', 'lead' - and don't just say it, DO IT.
The politicians of Tennessee, Oklahoma, and a bunch of other Republican states continue to embarrass themselves, instead of working on real issues of importance for its constituents, they use absurd rhetoric to move against education, women’s reproductive choice (and punish them), the LGBTIQA+ community, and now, inexplicably, drag queens. Watch Jon Stewart take down Senator Nathan Dahm.
See you out there x Carrieamitchell.com