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<\/a><\/div>\nWhat are you up to this weekend? Today, we\u2019re honoring the nationwide economic blackout<\/a> \u2014 we hope you are joining, as well! And tomorrow Freddie<\/a> and I are going to see the play English<\/a>. I love walking into the theater, finding our seats, and wondering if the actors get nervous beforehand (any actors out there, would you weigh in?). Hope you have a good one, and here are some links from around the web\u2026<\/p>\n Yum, cheesy chickpea ziti<\/a>.<\/p>\n The singular charm of Parker Posey<\/a>. While playing Victoria, the fifty-something matriarch in The White Lotus<\/a>, Posey \u201chad been handed an opportunity to draw out the characters of the Southern women she had watched from afar all her life. She felt like an outsider as a teenager in Laurel [Mississippi]\u2026Though she ironed out her accent when she moved to New York, now she reveled in broad Southern cadences, \u2018dramatic and funny at the same time.\u2019 Before the shoot, Posey had just a 30-minute Zoom call with White to hash out Victoria\u2019s character. He told her that he thought of Victoria as a younger version of Big Edie from \u2018Grey Gardens,\u2019 the mother who smothers her adult daughter in the home as their symbiotic life slips into decline\u2026 Posey was taken with Mike White\u2019s women, who \u2018look one way in the beginning and another way in the end,\u2019 she says.\u201d (NYTimes gift link)<\/p>\n Laughed forever at this dating-after-divorce spoof<\/a>.<\/p>\n Touch Grass<\/a> is a screen-time-limiting app that requires photographic evidence of you actually touching grass to unblock apps on your phone.<\/p>\n Ponytail cuffs<\/a> are the new it-girl accessory. Thoughts, ladies? Should we? (Elle)<\/p>\n We\u2019re kicking off live conversations<\/a> \u2014\u00a0about parenting, relationships, career, books, where to move, botox, you name it \u2014 on Big Salad! Subscribe here<\/a>, if you\u2019d like, to get the schedule as soon as it comes out.<\/p>\n Wow, this Welsh house<\/a> has a yellow kitchen, the cutest dog, and \u201cmown paths in the meadow.\u201d <\/p>\n What actually goes on in your brain during menopause<\/a>.<\/p>\n How to make a stranger\u2019s day<\/a>.<\/p>\n Busted<\/a>.<\/p>\n Plus, three reader comments:<\/p>\n Says Anon on how do you make your partner feel good<\/a>: \u201cOne cold night, I got out of the shower as usual and found my husband on my side of the bed. I asked him what was he doing there, and he said he was warming it up for me. I almost cried! He\u2019s done it many times after that, but the feeling that it gives to my heart never gets old.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n