What's Good
weekly roundup #19
Every week Samin & the team post 3 things (give or take) we find delightful, enriching, and worth encouraging you to check out for yourself. When we have them, this is where you’ll find updates too.
Hope you get as much joy from all this as we do!
CURL POWER
Samin has a funny story about the time a college friend straightened her hair and how she could barely recognize herself in the mirror afterwards. Not in a good or bad way necessarily, she just didn’t look like herself—anyone who knows and loves Samin like we do knows that must be true. Her big brown curls are so delightfully her, it’s truly impossible to imagine her without them.
Her curls look so luscious thanks to a great haircut and a simple routine with her favorite Hairstory products: New Wash Rich, Hair Balm, Root Lift, and Undressed. All these products are currently 20% off on the Hairstory website. Better yet, Hairstory has offered to gift one lucky paid subscriber the whole set! To enter, you must follow Hairstory on Instagram (@hairstorystudio) and live in the United States. Then just leave a comment below before the giveaway ends on November 30th at 11:59pm PT. The winner will be contacted by email!
A PLACE OF PROMINENCE
Why does 2018 feel like it was two lifetimes ago? Actually, don’t answer that question. Among the many historical milestones that year, Black Panther came out, and even though it was a part of a big franchise machine that we have no particular love for, it felt good. Truly, the costume design alone—by design genius Ruth E. Carter—was worth the cost of admission. Well, we found ourselves reflecting on all that and more as Chadwick Boseman got his star on the Hollywood walk of fame this week.
GIMME S’MORE SAMIN
Samin had a really cute segment on The Drew Berrymore show this week! AND she was on Good Morning America!! This caps off a long and wonderfully exhausting season of the book. 😌 Now she’s glad to be back home, resting and recouping on the couch with Fava nestled in her armpit and some random farm game on her ipad… Oh! And we’re working on some handmade gifts, but more on that next week.
AND NOW, FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
Here are a few older but still excellent podcasts that we thought you might enjoy listening to while cooking, traveling, stuck in traffic, or whatever else you might get up to this holiday week!
Lost Notes: 1980 - Introducing Lost Notes: 1980 — Poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores music released during the year 1980, a brilliant, awkward and sometimes heartbreaking opening to a monumental decade in popular music.
Decoder Ring: Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War — Also in the 1980s, two restaurant chains duked it out to become the preeminent robot pizza arcade. In each episode of this podcast, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters. This episode is one of our favorites!
Articles of Interest: American Ivy — Avery Trufelman tells the story of preppy clothes, which is perhaps the most incredible fashion arc of the 20th century. The story is long and remarkably revealing about American notions of taste, class and democracy.
Death of an Artist — Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed, and interrogates both the silence and the protest that have accompanied this story ever since.
My hair is very straight but so loved. I would love curls and Mom told me if I eat my crust it would curl. Never happened.
Needed more hair products so ordered these. I expect to become an aged bombshell. Thanks for the recommendation.