Halle Bailey is undoubtedly about to make big waves in 2023! @HalleBailey will not only be starring in The Little Mermaid but will play young Nettie in the upcoming film version of The Color Purple
In the accompanying cover story, Bailey explained how 2023’s The Little Mermaid left behind the original version’s shades of sexism: “I’m really excited for my version of the film because we’ve definitely changed that perspective of just her wanting to leave the ocean for a boy. It’s way bigger than that. It’s about herself, her purpose, her freedom, her life, and what she wants.”
She continued, “As women, we are amazing, we are independent, we are modern, we are everything and above. And I’m glad that Disney is updating some of those themes.”
Bailey has transparently talked about the horrifically racist backlash she’s been subjected to since her casting in 2019. She did so again with Edition: “Seeing the world’s reaction to it was definitely a shock, but seeing all the babies’ reactions, all the brown and Black young girls, really tore me up emotionally. … It’s honestly been such a crazy ride, and I genuinely feel shocked and honored and grateful to be in this position. A lot of times, I have to pinch myself and be like, is this real life?”
And Bailey couldn’t talk about her involvement in The Color Purple without loving on her sister, Chlöe (who is at the tip of the internet’s tongue with the release of Swarmand her impending release of her debut solo album, In Pieces).
“My sister Chlöe, she’s my angel, she’s my world. She’s my hero, my big sister, she’s my inspiration,” she said. “So taking on this role, I was really excited to do it because I got to play the little sister and build off this relationship of two people loving each other.”
The Little Mermaidis out in theaters on May 26. Watch the official trailer below.
I know it seems like we say it a lot, but March is a great month to be a beer drinker. It’s one of those “changing of the season” months. The beginning is still winter and that means you can get away with enjoying a few darker, maltier beers like stouts, porters, or barleywines. The middle and end represent the beginning of spring — a great time of year to get a jump start on IPAs, lagers, sour beers, and other lighter beers. What could be better?
But while it’s a great month for beer drinkers, it’s also a month where you might find yourself overwhelmed with the choices in front of you. Do you want to get wacky with it and just start drinking nothing but hoppy, dank IPAs? Do you want to have a few stouts while you still can? How about the fact that St. Patrick’s Day and all of its stouts, red ales, and general revelry lands in the middle of March (and stay on shelves most of the month)? There are too many beers to be enjoyed this month!
Fear not, we’re here to help. We picked ten great beers for your March consumption. Between tropical IPAs, sour ales, lagers, red ales, and stouts, March offers something for everyone. Keep scrolling to see them all.
It’s not easy to wait for spring and the warm weather it brings. That’s why we’re sipping on this tropical, hazy IPA this month. Brewed with 2-row pale malts and unmalted wheat, it gets its fruity, citrus, piney, hoppy flavor from the addition of Mosaic, Simcoe, Strata, and Experimental 586 hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is heavy with tropical fruit aroma with pineapple, mango, tangerine, and herbal, floral pine making appearances. The palate continues this tropical vacation vibe with a nice caramel malt backbone that adds notes of ripe pineapple, grapefruit, mango, passionfruit, and herbal, floral, earthy hops. The finish is sweet and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
Deschutes Tropical Fresh IPA really is like a tropical vacation in a can. It has everything you need to get into the spring spirit early.
In-between months like March are great for fruity, tart sour beers like Ommegang Dream Patch. This fruited sour with cherry, blueberry, and raspberry was brewed with help from the Belgian sour beer experts at Liefmans. The result is a sweet, sour, tart, highly memorable beer worthy of spring.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is loaded with ripe raspberries, other tart fruits, and funky yeast. It draws you in and makes you want to take a sip. Drinking it reveals wine tannins, raspberries, tart cherries, and more funky yeast. It’s not the most complex sour beer ever made, but it’s tart, sweet, and does the trick on a cool March day.
Bottom Line:
If you’re new to sour beers or you enjoy the tart flavor of raspberry, this is March beer for you. It’s available all year but shines in a chillier month.
Switchback Roasted Red Ale
Switchback
ABV: 5.6%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
Vermont’s Switchback is a big name in the craft beer world and its Roasted Red Ale isn’t a new beer. But it is finally available in cans and that’s reason enough to drink it this month. Brewed with caramel malts and Amarillo hops, it’s a malty, hoppy beer well-suited for March weather.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find a delicate balance of caramel, roasted malts, and floral, piney hops. The palate follows suit with citrus peels, caramel malts, sweet roasted malts, chocolate, and floral, lightly bitter hops. It’s malty, sweet, and has just the right amount of hop presence to make you want to crack open one more.
Bottom Line:
This malty, sweet, hoppy beer is a great choice for March on aroma and flavor alone. But it’s also being canned for the first time. Seek it out this month.
Harpoon Sticky Bun Stout
Harpoon
ABV: 7.5%
Average Price: Special Release at the Brewery
The Beer:
Who doesn’t love a good sticky bun, right? What about a beer that tastes just like a sticky bun? The limited-release Harpoon Sticky Bun Stout is made in collaboration with local Flour Baker + Café and is brewed with toasted pecans, caramel, cinnamon, and brown sugar.
Tasting Notes:
This beer literally smells like a freshly baked sticky bun. There’s caramel, cinnamon, and candied nuts on the nose. It definitely makes you want to take a sip. The palate features buttery caramel, cinnamon sugar, candied pecans, roasted malts, chocolate, and brown sugar.
Bottom Line:
Some brewers make beers intended for dessert. Well, Harpoon Sticky Bun Stout is the equivalent of a dessert in beer form. Indulgent, sweet, and warming on a cool spring night.
Stone Patio Magic is the kind of beer we want to sip on an early spring night on a patio, deck, or outside seating area. This 8.8% ABV double IPA was brewed with New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc grape skins and orange peels. It gets its hops presence from the use of Mosaic, Centennial, Southern Aroma, and Stone’s experimental 843 hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a mix of resinous, dank, floral pine and fruity guava, mango, pineapple, and candied orange peels. The palate continues this trend with more candied orange peels, bright tropical fruits, and dank, floral, earthy hops. It’s fruity and dank and leaves you wanting more.
Bottom Line:
This fruity, citrus-filled IPA was crafted to be enjoyed on an unseasonably warm evening. Sip it at dusk and enjoy its hoppy goodness.
Clearly, you’ll probably be indulging in at least a few Guinness Stout pints this month. But if you want a change of pace while remaining in the dry stout realm, we suggest Breckenridge Nitro Irish Stout. This 4.8% ABV dry stout was brewed with roasted malts and was crafted to taste like the iconic stouts of Ireland.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a classic dry stout with notes of roasted malts, chocolate, and caramel. Sipping it brings forth traditional stout flavors of cocoa powder, roasted malts, bitter chocolate, vanilla, freshly brewed coffee. The finish is sweet, dry, and highly memorable.
Bottom Line:
Already a well-made, flavorful stout loaded with chocolate, coffee, and roasted malts. Nitro adds a creamy element that makes this a must-try March beer.
The first release of the 2023 Off-Centered Art Series, Dogfish Head Nordic Spring IPA was brewed with Norwegian Kveik yeast, wild juniper berries, orange peel, and Danko rye malt. It’s fruity, spicy, piney, and delicious on a cool spring night.
Tasting Notes:
This beer starts with an explosion of tangerine, lime zest, juniper, yeasty bread, and floral pine. The palate is filled with a forest of pine needles, wildflowers, bright juniper berries, and candied orange peels. The finish is sweet, dry, hoppy, and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
If you’re a gin fan, you’ll love the juniper in this beer. Add the citrus and pine, you’re looking at the ultimate gin lover’s IPA.
We love a good dry Irish stout around St. Patrick’s Day, but we also enjoy imbibing a few Irish-style ales that aren’t stouts as well. A wonderful example is Great Lakes Conway’s Irish Ale. Named for one of the co-founder’s Irish grandfathers who also happened to be a police officer, this Irish red ale is known for its balance of sweet malts and floral hops.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of yeasty bread, caramel, roasted malts, and floral, lightly piney hops greet you before your first sip. Sipping it reveals notes of roasted malts, freshly baked bread, toffee, and grassy, herbal hops. The finish is dry and pleasantly bitter.
Bottom Line:
This well-balanced Irish-style red ale is so well-balanced and flavorful, you’ll forget all about that Guinness Stout sixer hiding in the back on the fridge on March 17th.
The latest John Wick flick hits theaters this weekend, and from all of the action-heavy trailers and wonderful Keanu anecdotes, you might feel inclined to see John Wick Chapter 4,even if you’re a little unfamiliar with the series.
The films are very straightforward in the sense that they follow a similar formula: John Wick is being summoned back into the world of big-time assassins but there is an overarching plot, and it all begins with a cute puppy. The series brings Wick all around the world wearing fancy suits, encountering dangerous assassins and even meeting Halle Berry, so they are all worth watching.
The first movie, aptly titled John Wick, shows Wick returning to his past life as a hardened killer after the death of his wife. You could just go in knowing that and still have a fun time, but watching the first three films will help you understand all of the lore when it comes to the universe.
John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 2, and John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum are the three previous installments in the franchise, and they are all available to stream on Peacock. The streamer will also be the future home of The Continental, the upcoming prequel series based in the infamous assassin hotel.
Along with the Ana de Armas-led spinoff, there is also expected to be a fifth installment in the series, which will hopefully consist of more Keanu and even more violence. But the guns are not necessarily real, so don’t worry.
The Real McCoy/Saint Lucia/Cruzan/Smith & Cross/istock/Uproxx
If you think of rum, what do you immediately envision?
If you’re a casual rum drinker, you might think of no-frills, crystal clear, unaged rums that were more or less crafted to be mixed with. And while that’s all well and good, there’s so much more to this sugarcane-based spirit than that. Gold rum, dark rum, navy strength rum, overproof rum, blackstrap rum, spiced rum… it’s safe to assume that rum is just as vast of a category as whiskey.
Rum is a great mixing spirit, regardless of which variety you decide to work with. The slightly vegetal, bright, fruity character of white rum makes excellent daiquiris; the sweet, vanilla, caramel, and oaky wood flavors of aged rums work beautifully in dark ‘n’ stormies. It’s also a spirit well-known for its value. There are countless well-made, versatile rums for less than $35 (and usually much less) just waiting to be snatched up and added to your home bar cart.
To find the best rums for mixing, we asked a few well-known bartenders to tell us the best value rums to mix with. Keep scrolling to see them all.
Havana Club Blanco is my favorite value rum by far. Hemingway daiquiris and Pain Killers are my favorite rum drinks, both of which are great with Havana Club Blanco.
Tasting Notes:
It has a great flavor profile (vanilla, oak, and banana) and is very versatile.
Smith & Cross
Smith & Cross
Colin Berger, bar manager at Rare Society in San Diego
I am partial to rum with a punch. Even when mixing classic lighter rum cocktails, I gravitate toward rum that has funk and character. A bottle of Smith & Cross meets those criteria and then some. It won’t break the bank and it will add depth and a noticeable kick to any rum cocktail you are accustomed to making with light rums.
From a classic daiquiri to an incredible rum old fashioned, Smith & Cross is the bottle I reach for most often.
Tasting Notes:
It’s fruity and complex with a nice mix of sweet molasses, dried leather, citrus, and warming spices.
Cruzan Black Strap
Cruzan
Erica Dimmig, lead mixologist at Pendry in Chicago
If you’re looking for a rum to impress on flavor but save yourself some dollars, I highly recommend Cruzan Black Strap. It pairs well with a simple Cuba Libre, makes a Pina colada richer, and is absolutely killer in a daiquiri.
Tasting Notes:
It has complex molasses-based flavors and is exceptional for mixing cocktails. Sweet, spicy, and highly memorable.
Chairman’s Reserve Spiced Original Rum
Chairman’s Reserve
Acencion Mendez, bartender at Alma Negra in Brooklyn, New York
As beverage director and part owner of Alma Negra, we believe that fresh ingredients with great spirits always taste better. At Alma, we love to use the value rums like Chairman’s Reserve Spiced Original Rum from St. Lucia.
Tasting Notes:
Chairman’s with great spice flavors of cinnamon and clove to mention a few, inspires us to use it with fresh pineapple juice, fresh mandarin cordial, and fresh ginger to create a cocktail that transitions from winter to spring. It’s when you still need your vitamin C for winter but also enjoy the fresh and tropical taste associated with the beginning of spring.
Amrut Two Indies Rum is my favorite value dark rum. I was first introduced to this gem working in an Indian restaurant in Chicago’s Logan Square, a neighborhood with a similar dime-store diamond vibe. It’s a pot still rum that blends spirits from the East and West Indies. Caribbean rums from Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana are blended with Indian rum and the fusion is tasty and versatile.
Tasting Notes:
Its secret weapon is the jaggery base – an unrefined sugar, that gives this rum a delicious molasses and caramelized banana flavor with a mouthfeel to match. This funky rum sings in a classic daiquiri or can provide a complex spicy twist to any classic rum drink.
I think Don Q Reserva 7 Year Old Rum is a real gem of a rum especially for mixing. Because of how spirit ages in the tropics, seven years gives you a lot more complexity than you might expect.
Tasting Notes:
It beautifully balances light oak vanilla with stone fruits, caramel, and cocoa. Enjoyable as a sipper and versatile enough to be used in various styles of rum cocktails, whether classic Daiquiri or Mai Tai.
Our well starts at call brands, so we use Bacardi Light Rum Superior for our go-to rum. It’s cheap and readily available, but surprisingly complex and flavorful.
Tasting Notes:
It is relatively inexpensive and gives you the characteristics rum drinkers look for: smoothness, viscosity, and lovely caramel and honey notes. If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.
The Real McCoy 3-Year-Old
The Real McCoy
Maya Bentley, lead bartender at El Dorado in San Diego
The Real McCoy 3 Year. It’s a lightly aged blended rum with both pot still and column still juice in it, distilled by one of the world’s best rum distillers. The combination of value, integrity, and ‘mix-ability’ is hard to match. It holds up in exotic cocktails, daiquiris, and can work as a modifier in a light-stirred cocktail. If you prefer a bit more age, the Real McCoy 5 Year is also quite solid.
Tasting Notes:
This rum is a nice mix of fruity, spicy, and sweet with citrus peels, oak, vanilla, and peppery spice making appearances.
In my opinion, Papa’s Pilar Blonde Rum is the best value rum I like to mix with. This pale yellow-hued rum was made to pay homage to Ernest Hemingway and his love for rum.
Tasting Notes:
It’s the only blonde rum on the market and its subtle hints of vanilla and lemongrass add more complex notes that you won’t find in other light rums.
The rum category and its diversity of rules have allowed it to slip under the radar in terms of price. I love Brugal 1888 Rum, made in the Dominican and focused on aging barrels under the Puerto Plata sun.
Tasting Notes:
That combined with first-fill American barrels as well as first-fill Oloroso Sherry barrels allows for a truly unique marriage of flavors. Sweet sherry, chocolate, vanilla, toffee, and oak flavors make for an impressive cocktail base.
“It was a daunting task, to find someone I could trust with the retelling of such a personal story,” Zauner said in a press release statement. “Someone who could honor my mother’s character and respect the darkest days of grief, and still make the coming of age of a half-Korean artsy outsider in a small Pacific Northwest hippie town seem real and cool. In that spirit, I am so relieved to have found Will Sharpe and am beyond delighted that he will be the director of Crying in H Mart. I believe his sensitivity, as a director and an actor, and his own personal experience, having grown up between two cultures, will be tremendous assets.”
Zauner continued, “His work on Flowers and The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain speak to his ability to conjure lofty, vulnerable performances, to find humor and grace within the tragedy of the everyday. They are a precious collection of talents that make him the perfect fit for this film.”
Sharpe has six directorial credits to his name (as on IMDb), such as the series Flowers starring Olivia Colman and the 2021 Amazon Prime Video original movie The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain with Benedict Cumberbatch in the titular role. Flowers is responsible for one of the English-Japanese multi-hyphenate’s four BAFTA nominations, including one win (Supporting Actor in Girl/Haji).
“There were lots of things that resonated with me as somebody who is half-Japanese, half-British, spent my childhood in Tokyo,” Sharpe told People. “Some of the descriptions of being jet-lagged in your family’s kitchen felt very familiar to me.”
He added, “For me, it would be Japanese food and remembering growing up going to the 7-Elevens and the convenience stores in Tokyo and the dumplings that my mother would make when I was unwell. And I felt like I could recognize that in the descriptions of the Korean porridge or the kimchi and how important that still is to Michelle and how food can carry certain other things within it about your life.”
Zauner is about to set out on her first Crying In H Mart book tour, beginning on March 27 at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. Find more information here.
The pandemic has caused many people to reevaluate their surroundings. When you’re stuck at home more often than you’d like, you start to pay a lot more attention to what goes on in your own backyard.
This type of introspection inspired wildlife photographer Carla Rhodes to get a closer look at the furry friends that live near her home in the Catskill mountains of New York.
What she found was magical.
“The winter of 2020-2021 was particularly brutal to humankind. After months of enduring the Covid-19 pandemic, we were now collectively slogging through winter. As a result of being stuck at home, I focused on my immediate surroundings like never before,” Rhodes said in a statement.
Rhodes positioned a DSLR camera trap beneath her bird feeder to get an up-close glimpse of the wildlife that came to sample her delicious seeds. The results are an incredible series of photos of birds and other woodland creatures from a vantage point most people never see. Rhodes calls her project, “Beneath the Bird Feeder.”
The birdfeeder photos also gave a new glimpse into the behavior of several species of birds and rodents that call the Catskills home.
“As I got deeper into the project, intriguing observations emerged,” Rhodes says. “I noticed distinct repeat visitors such as a Dark-Eyed Junco with an overgrown beak, a deer mouse with a notched ear, and an irruption of Red-Breasted Nuthatches. Dark-Eyed Juncos always showed up at the crack of dawn and Northern Cardinals would always be the last visitor of the day as dusk turned into evening.”
Here are 15 of the most captivating photos that Rhodes captured from beneath her bird feeder.
1. Dark-eyed junco
“Often overlooked and considered drab ground-feeding birds, Dark-Eyed Juncos hold a special place in my heart due to their funny and curious behaviors. Every day they were first to arrive beneath the bird feeder,” Rhodes says. “Dark-Eyed Juncos were one of the most frequent and curious subjects beneath the bird feeder.”
2. Dark-eyed junco
3. Dark-eyed junco
4. Tufted titmouse
According to All About Birds, the tufted titmouse is “common in eastern deciduous forests and a frequent visitor to feeders.”
5. Mourning dove
”Observing Mourning Doves was a daily pleasure, especially when they gathered to form a clean-up crew beneath the bird feeder. Mourning doves are monogamous and possibly mate for life,” Rhodes writes.
6. Mourning dove
7. Mourning doves
8. Blue jay
“Blue Jays are known for their intelligence and complex social systems with tight family bonds,” All About Birds says. “Their fondness for acorns is credited with helping spread oak trees after the last glacial period.”
9. Northern cardinal
“Northern Cardinals were always the last to show up beneath the bird feeder, shortly after dusk every evening,” Rhodes writes.
10. Black-capped chickadee
“Little flocks of Black-capped Chickadees enliven the winter woods with their active behavior and their cheery-sounding chick-a-dee callnotes as they fly from tree to tree, often accompanied by an assortment of nuthatches, creepers, kinglets, and other birds,” the Audubon field guide to North American birds says.
11. Black-capped chickadee
12. Eastern gray squirrel
Eastern gray squirrels are important members of forest ecosystems as they play a vital role in dispersing seeds.
13. American red squirrel
The American red squirrel is known for its distinct bushy and dark red tail with hints of a white outline.
14. American red squirrel
15. Northern short-tailed shrew
If you see a northern short-tailed shrew, be careful. It’s venomous and paralyzes its victims with poisonous saliva. In humans, a bite can cause swelling and intense pain.
Aging is a weird thing. From one perspective, it’s something we should be grateful for. Few people would wish for the kind of short, uneventful life that would remove aging from the equation completely. The longer we live, the more we grow and learn and experience life, and “aging” is simply the mathematical sum of those experiences. All good, right?
On the other hand, our society does everything in its power to hide the fact that aging happens. Especially when it comes to women. According to Statista, the global anti-aging beauty market is estimated to be worth $58.8 billion. People will try all manner of creams, serums, masks, acids, lights, technologies and surgeries to try to prevent wrinkles, lines, sagginess, spots and other signs that our bodies are changing with time.
Most of us live our daily lives somewhere in the middle of these two realities, wanting to embrace our aging selves but also hoping to stave off some of the more obvious signs that we’re getting older. It’s natural to resist it in some ways, since the older we get, the closer we get to the end of our lives, which we certainly don’t want to hasten—especially if we actually love living.
It can be helpful to see people who are embracing their age, which is why it can be inspiring to see someone like former supermodel Paulina Porizkova confidently sharing photos of her 57-year-old self.
In posts on social media, Porizkova shared a photo of herself in a bikini and a screenshot of a comment made by a person who felt the need to comment on her aging body. And phew, was it something. The commenter wrote:
“You must be in so much pain to keep posting bikini pictures at your age. I’ve always thought that getting old and ugly is hardest on the pretty people. The fall from grace is so much farther when you were beautiful. Ugly people were always ugly so getting old and ugly isn’t a change. In summary, I feel your pain. I pray you can come to terms with your mortality. We all get old and ugly…you just had to fall from a greater height than the rest of us. Tears Times Infinity!”
So many things to unpack here.
Porizkova shared her thoughts on the comment on Instagram.
A thoughtful reader comment on IG need an equally thoughtful response.nThank you for feeling my pain, rickaroo777. As you can see, Iu2019m suffering indeed.pic.twitter.com/mWijP55iAS
“Here’s a good follower comment- echoing a few others,” Porizkova wrote. “A woman of 57 is ‘too old’ to pose in a bikini – no matter what she looks like. Because ‘Old’ is ‘Ugly.’ I get comments like these every time I post a photo of my body. This is the ageist shaming that sets my teeth on edge. Older men are distinguished, older women are ugly.”
“People who believe prettiness equals beauty do not understand beauty,” she continued. “Pretty is easy on the eyes, partly because it’s a little bland, inoffensive. It’s easy to take in and easy to forget. Not so beauty. Beauty can be sharp. It can wound you and leave a scar. To perceive beauty you have to be able to SEE.”
“This is why I believe we get more beautiful with age,” she added. “We have earned our beauty, we understand what it is, and we can see it so much better. There is no such thing as ugly and old. Only shortsighted and ignorant.”
On Twitter, Porizkova was a bit more sarcastic, writing, “Thank you for feeling my pain, rickaroo777. As you can see, I’m suffering indeed.”
That tongue-in-cheek response prompted others to share their aging selves in photos, sharing how their “old and ugly” phase of life is going. The thread turned into a veritable celebration of middle-to-late age, with posts about how much more comfortable people feel in their bodies as they get older and the freedom that comes along with not caring what other people think.
There are two big ironies with the original trolling comment. Most obviously, Porizkova obviously looks freaking amazing in a bikini, so the whole “ugly” and “fall from grace” line of thought is object and off base. The second is that if you look through Porizkova’s Instagram feed, she doesn’t pose in bikinis very often at all. It’s not like she’s plastering her bikini selfies all over social media trying to make herself feel better about herself, as the commenter implies. She just…sometimes wears a bikini. Whoop dee doo.
Do it anyway! Every body is valid. Every body is a bikini body.pic.twitter.com/slDLHLWQo7
People don’t have to wear bikinis if they don’t want to. But to tell strangers what they can wear crosses a line. All bodies are bikini bodies, and if the person in the body wants their body to be in a bikini, more power to them.
I’m 49 and I haven’t yet put on a bikini. Steph, thanks for showing me it’s not too late! Tho, somehow I feel like I won’t fill it as well as you & Paulina. But it’s all about attitude, right? So let’s the 3 of us hit the beach! (I’ll stay in the shade of an umbrella, tho.)
The thread brought inspiration to those who may fall prey to the idea that people shouldn’t wear certain things after a certain age or that only people with certain body sizes or shapes should wear certain things.
The hashtag #oldandugly started trending as people responded to Porizkova’s call for a celebration of aging beautifully.
“Todays thread has been my absolute favorite of all time,” Porizkova wrote on Twitter. “Thank you all you ‘old and ugly’ women (and a few men) showing the world how much we ‘suffer’ at in our old age. You’re all breathtaking!”
The love continues! 57 and proud! Keep posting your wonderful beautiful selves and tag #oldandugly so we can keep sharing the pic.twitter.com/Veg72kQOqt
May we all age beautifully and gracefully in whatever way those words are meaningful to us, and show those who think that aging means “suffering” and “pain” due to being “old and ugly” that they have no idea what they’re talking about.
(And here’s an extra shout-out to Porizkova for using her beauty and her age to make an important point—not only about celebrating getting older, but also about how propaganda works. Brava.)
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been stepping in it a bit more than usual lately. She received pushback for her Super Bowl take and has had some geographically challenged fumbles that could be more than typos, but she’s taking a surprising stance on the reportedly impending arrest of Donald Trump.
To back up for a moment, Trump self-reported his belief that he’ll be arrested and indicted by the Manhattan D.A. on any number of investigations into his financial doings. This could possibly concern the payout to Stormy Daniels, but no one really knows yet, and Trump isn’t being specific. He did however, ask his MAGA supporters to “protest” for him in what could be viewed as encouragement to pull a repeat of January 6: “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”
What will happen to Trump’s KFC plane is he is arrested? That’s a question for the future, but for now, it’s enough to note that Marjorie Taylor Greene is asking MAGA die-hards to ignore the call for protests. Mind you, it’s not as though Greene had anything flattering to say about the other side. However, it’s notable that she’s pressing back against Trump’s call for chaos.
“We don’t need to protest about the Communists Democrat’s planning to arrest Pres Trump and the political weaponization of our government and election interference,” Greene insisted on Twitter. “These idiots are sealing their own fate in 2024 because the silent majority has two feelings right now about the current regime. Fear and anger. That is the most powerful combination when election time comes. And the Democrats are driving that force with their own corrupt actions.”
That’s something. Even though she’s insulting Democrats in the process, she’s still asking for calm, which is quite a turn since her “1776” tweeting that raised eyebrows and accusations that she helped spur on the insurrection. In the aftermath of that historic mess, Greene has expressed concern over treatment of the rioters, although she has seemingly gone unscathed after being mentioned in the Proud Boys indictment. Perhaps she’s realized that Trump will not do a darn thing for those who get arrested while once again doing his bidding. And maybe, just maybe, Trump may have lost her, at least on one subject.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been stepping in it a bit more than usual lately. She received pushback for her Super Bowl take and has had some geographically challenged fumbles that could be more than typos, but she’s taking a surprising stance on the reportedly impending arrest of Donald Trump.
To back up for a moment, Trump self-reported his belief that he’ll be arrested and indicted by the Manhattan D.A. on any number of investigations into his financial doings. This could possibly concern the payout to Stormy Daniels, but no one really knows yet, and Trump isn’t being specific. He did however, ask his MAGA supporters to “protest” for him in what could be viewed as encouragement to pull a repeat of January 6: “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”
What will happen to Trump’s KFC plane is he is arrested? That’s a question for the future, but for now, it’s enough to note that Marjorie Taylor Greene is asking MAGA die-hards to ignore the call for protests. Mind you, it’s not as though Greene had anything flattering to say about the other side. However, it’s notable that she’s pressing back against Trump’s call for chaos.
“We don’t need to protest about the Communists Democrat’s planning to arrest Pres Trump and the political weaponization of our government and election interference,” Greene insisted on Twitter. “These idiots are sealing their own fate in 2024 because the silent majority has two feelings right now about the current regime. Fear and anger. That is the most powerful combination when election time comes. And the Democrats are driving that force with their own corrupt actions.”
That’s something. Even though she’s insulting Democrats in the process, she’s still asking for calm, which is quite a turn since her “1776” tweeting that raised eyebrows and accusations that she helped spur on the insurrection. In the aftermath of that historic mess, Greene has expressed concern over treatment of the rioters, although she has seemingly gone unscathed after being mentioned in the Proud Boys indictment. Perhaps she’s realized that Trump will not do a darn thing for those who get arrested while once again doing his bidding. And maybe, just maybe, Trump may have lost her, at least on one subject.
It’s easy to take for granted the positive effects that plant life can have on us as individuals, but there is very real evidence out there that suggests that simply being around plants can have a tremendous effect on our well-being. According to a study published last year in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, indoor plants provide measurable physiological and cognitive benefits and can even lower diastolic blood pressure and enhance attention span and response time. The study concludes that green spaces are an integral part of the public health of a city both indoors and out. But green spaces are a privilege, and low-income communities can sometimes exist in what Sandra Mejia calls a ‘green desert.’
‘Maybe the people who live in these neighborhoods don’t necessarily have disposable income, and so they aren’t necessarily spending money on things like plants,’ says Mejia in this episode of Show Up on Uproxx, ‘Being around plants, they just make you happy, and they make the place feel alive and not so sterile… it goes beyond us not having greenhouses, there are so many things we don’t have in this neighborhood.’
Mejia is the co-founder of The Plant Chica, a community greenhouse located in South Central Los Angeles that serves as a bridge between the community and plant life, providing free plants through its adopt a plant events, and acting as a hub for the local community to gather.
The Plant Chica, which started as an online side hustle for Mejia but quickly grew into a brick-and-mortar store that filled a vital need in an underserved community, is more than a simple greenhouse. It plays host to many community events, all in the spirit of giving back to and growing the local community.
To learn more about The Plant Chica and how Mejia took her passion for nature and community and turned it into a way to better her neighborhood, check out the latest episode of Show Up in the video above.
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