Tag Archives: Weekend Reading

Yikes! Completely forgot about weekend reading until 11:45 p.m. on Friday night. Just under the wire…

36 Hours in Puebla, Mexico from The New York Times.

Could Digital Badges Replace Traditional Degrees for DIY Learners? from GOOD.

Cheap European Vacations – Where To Go This Summer from As We Travel.

50 People You Wish You Knew In Real Life from BuzzFeed.

Cheap Shrimp, Funded by Human Trafficking and Environmental Destruction from GOOD.

Fighting Back: Has one state discovered a simple way to combat domestic violence? from The New Republic.

The Man Who Hacked Hollywood from GQ.

The Criminalization of Bad Mothers from The New York Times.

What did you read this week that made you think?

Cheese Declared Best In The World Auctioned For $8,400 At World Championship Cheese Contest from The Huffington Post

The Battle for a Comic-Book Empire That Archie Built from The New York Times

How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . from The New York Times Magazine. Funniest thing I read all week.

The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills from The Atlantic. “Something was killing Hmong men in their sleep, and no one could figure out what it was.

Now Your Chance to Live Out Dirty Dancing Is Gone Forever from Jezebel.

Patience Abbe, Chronicler of Her Childhood Travels, Dies at 87 from The New York Times. “Patience Abbe was not quite 10 by the time she had waltzed standing tiptoe on Fred Astaire’s feet, charmed literary critics with her conversation and been promised in marriage to the son of a handsome couple of her parents’ acquaintance, Hadley and Ernest Hemingway. She and Jack Hemingway, also known as Bumby, were toddlers at the time, living with their expatriate American parents in Paris.”

Unsinkable :Why we can’t let go of the Titanic from The New Yorker

Elaborate Weddings, Minus the Guests from The New York Times. “I wanted the dress, the vows, the flowers and the pictures,” said Ms. Provost, 36, who took the unconventional step of turning the couple’s elopement into a blowout. “But when you have guests, we felt like it ends up being more for them, not for the bride and groom. We wanted it to be for us.” Wow.

Did you read anything funny, interesting, scary or amazing this week? Share it with us.

When to Buy That Plane Ticket from The New York Times

Titanic’s Sinking: Was it more than human folly? from The Huffington Post

The Disconnect: Why are so many Americans single? from The New Yorker

The Inconvenient Astrologer from M1-5 from the Awl.”What no one realized was that de Wohl’s lecture was pure propaganda from the British government, which was attempting to drag the Roosevelt administration into WWII by any means necessary.”

The Crisis in American Walking: How we got off the pedestrian path. from Slate.

Did you read anything interesting this week?

The Best Nanny Money Can Buy from the New York Times. “As one of New York City’s elite nannies, Muneton commanded around $180,000 a year — plus a Christmas bonus and a $3,000-a-month apartment on Central Park West.”

Young Writers Dazzle Publisher (Mom and Dad) from The New York Times. “The mothers and fathers who foot the bill say they are simply trying to encourage their children, in the same way that other parents buy gear for a promising lacrosse player or ship a Broadway aspirant off to theater camp.”

Sea Of Shoes Blogger’s Parents Gave Her ‘Several Hundred Thousand Dollars’ To Spend On Footwear from Jezebel. The original Texas Monthly article is here. Um…yuck.

A Death in Yellowstone: On the trail of a killer grizzly from Slate

African agriculture: Dirt poor from Nature. “The key to tackling hunger in Africa is enriching its soil. The big debate is about how to do it.”

How to Write the Great American Novel from The Awl

Dentists with our Borders: Socialized medicine in the heart of Old Europe from the New Yorker. By David Sedaris so you know it’s funny.

Have you read anything this week that made you laugh? Made you angry? Made you cry? Share it with us!

French village Pince to hand out chickens to cut waste from the BBC. “Officials in the village of Pince in north-western France say the chickens should each consume 150kg (330lb) of rubbish per year.” This is certainly true in my house! We almost never throw food away; it all goes to the yard birds.

If the Characters in Downton Abbey Were Portrayed by Canine Actors, What Breeds Would They Be? from dogster.com. Very funny.

It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest from Take Part (via Not Martha). WOW!

6 Horrifying Implications of the Harry Potter Universe from Cracked.

Not Taking Your Hubby’s Name? You May Be Judged Harshly from  Live Science. I think it’s very interesting that this is so regional.

The Beginning of the Brontes from The Millions. Made me love Charlotte even more.

Where’s Earl?Word from the missing prodigy of a hip-hop group on the rise from the New Yorker. A glimpse into a wold I know very little about.

What are you reading this week?

Weekend Reading is late this week because I, um, forgot to post it on Friday. Oops! Hopefully you can fit some of these article in on Sunday.

Why Germans Can’t Say Squirrel from the Huffington Post: My favorite line? “In an episode of the British TV show “Top Gear,” host Jeremy Clarkson jokingly suggested that asking people to pronounce the word would be a surefire way to identify undercover German spies.”

“If the Serial Killer Gets Us, He Gets Us” from Texas Monthly: Skip Hollandsworth is one of the best magazine writers that ever lived. If you see his byline on anything, it’s worth a read.

From Brad and Doug Pitt to Sharon and Kelly Stone… Meet Hollywood’s most famous stars’ lesser known siblings from the Mail Online. I loved seeing the ordinary brothers and sisters of movie stars.

Public Toilet Hack: Keep Protective Seat Covers in Place, No Elaborate Sitting Routine Required from Lifehacker. Personally, I think those covers are more trouble than they are worth but I have a few ladies friends who would sooner wet there pants than use a public bathroom without one.

Is Anne Marie Rasmusson too hot to have a driver’s license? from City Pages. WARNING: This is one of those news stories that will completely enrage you and you may feel compelled to tell everyone you know about it.

Did something you read this week make you think, make you cry, make you laugh or make you angry? Share it with us.

The new Sweet Paul Magazine is up today and it is a peach!

Smooth Moves: How Sara Blakely rehabilitated the girdle from the New  Yorker. I really enjoyed this article about the woman who invented Spanx.

The Body of Somerton Beach from Smithsonian Magazine. A detailed account of a mysterious body found in Australia in 1948—the man was never identified, and his cause of death remains unknown.

Anatomy of a Greenpoint Bike Accident from The Village Voice. This article makes me glad I don’t have to rely on bike transportation.

Nickeled and Dimed, Ten Years Later by Barbara Ehrenreich.  If you haven’t read the original, I highly recommend it as well.

What are you reading this week that we should know about?

I was a Warehouse Wage Slave from Mother Jones. Wow. This is eye-opening.

Study Shows What Men really Think of Women in Red Dresses from the Huffington Post. I guess this is interesting except that I’m not sure why we care what men think of our dress colors.

How Climate Change Causes Earthquakes and Erupting Volcanos from Mother Jones. Scared the socks off me.

The Death Star is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System from Mother Jones. Made me laugh.

One-Armed Gunslingers and Germans in Teepees: A Brief Guide to the Euro-Western from The Millions. I loved this because I knew absolutely nothing about it before reading it.

Who Invented the High Five? from ESPN The Magazine. Probably my favorite this week.

Why Breasts are the Key to the Future of Regenerative Medicine from Wired.
What’s the latest thing you read that surprised/engaged/educated you?