Weekend Reads is a series by Wardrobe Oxygen that is published every Saturday. Art, music, interesting articles, sale alerts, and reviews of TV, movies, books, theater, and art exhibits by Alison Gary, and over-40 working mom in the Maryland Suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Weekend Reads The loneliness of Jodie Foster. (The Atlantic – gift article) How foraging taught me middle-aged self-acceptance. (Outside) Return fraud is a rampant problem for both shoppers and retailers — and the mishaps often make for viral videos on TikTok. (New York Times – gift article) Maker of Tinder, Hinge sued over ‘addictive’ dating… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #277
Keep your feedback about the update of this site coming! This week, I have been playing with the font. Many of you found the font too light, and I changed the color to black, but the thin style was still hard to read, especially on mobile. While the current font isn’t, as my daughter says,… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #276
Weekend Reads Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. (AP) Victoria Monét’s Grammy moment: The singer on nearly quitting music, working while giving birth and finally seizing the spotlight. (Variety) Culture can too often drive us apart. At the Grammys on Sunday, two artists delivered… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #275
Weekend Reads #274 Explorer may have found wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane in Pacific. (Reuters) Grant program for Black women comes under tough questioning in key anti-DEI lawsuit. (AP) Millennials don’t know what to wear. Gen Z has thoughts. (New York Times – gift article) Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #274
I am still tinkering with the blog. It is both infuriating but also exhilarating. I have done site renovations in the past, but I paid a company thousands of dollars to do it, and then I sent them a punch list to fix anything I found wrong. I paid someone to install the new theme… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #273
As a blogger and influencer, I try to do one thing per quarter to improve my business. Some are ways to work smarter, some are to increase revenue, some are to increase community, and some are just to make things look better. And this quarter, I am going to be giving this site a glow-up.… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #272
If you follow other bloggers, influencers, and content creators you may have seen some of them host trips. This is where they offer a planned trip, domestic or overseas, where they along with followers have a travel experience. Some are related to their niche (food bloggers in Italy, wine influencers in the Napa Valley, wellness… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #271
A few reads and recommendations for the end of the year. Weekend Reads will resume in 2024 and I look forward to connecting with you! And if you have any recommendations on what to watch, read, hear, or see do share in the comments. I think many of us have a bit more time over… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #270
Weekend Reads Greenbelt City Council member Brandon ‘Ric’ Gordon dies at 41. (Washington Post – gift article) A polo shirt, a white apron and a retro hairdo changed an actor’s life forever. (New York Times – gift article) Marc Jacobs in conversation with ChatGPT. (i-D) I started a series on Instagram Stories about jeans and… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #269