10 Things We're Doing Besides Maxing, Relaxing, and Podcasting

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• The most fashionable candy in all the land and the most excitable bachelor on all the Lower East Side.
  

• Games you should be playing and celebrities you should be ignoring.
  

• Banks, sports bras, books, travel hacks, and—wouldn't you know it?—coughing remedies.

erica’s things

• Stocking up on mini bottles of prosecco—ideal for topping off a negroni sbagliato or three and for eliminating the anxiety caused by a half bottle of something bubbly going flat in the fridge.

• Clenching my whole being for all 83 minutes of the oh-so-timely movie Beatriz at Dinner. Also: Salma Hayek + Connie Britton!

• Feeling better about an extremely fraught relationship in my life: the one I have with dry shampoo.

• Ripping this article out of Elle and adding Dream Hoarders—about 20-percenters and inequality—to the ol’ GoodReads.

• Moving here. Byyye.
  

claire’s things

• Signing up for the Shondaland newsletter faster than you can say “It’s handled.”

• Declaring the laid-back, delicious, and just-so-easy Hart's my new, new-neighborhood spot. Aaaand they have orange wine by the glass. So.

• Keeping Kleenex’s questionable design sensibility under wraps.

• D’oh-ing at the real explanation for the sudden explosion of poke restaurants (that has zero to do with our country’s appetite for dried-seaweed-bits-as-topping).

• Getting to know a thing or two about grilling and agreeing with NYMag: This charcoal's the stuff to beat—and the stuff that’ll infuse your meat and veggies with lots of that so-smoky flavor.

turn it up to 11 - from erica

• Dressing-up a dinner of Domino’s GF with these.