Happy Friday! Has this week felt like it took two years, or what?
-- Lainey has a really interesting piece about the current shake-up in the tabloid industry (Us Weekly was recently purchased, laid off a bunch of people, and closed their LA office, which is intense. I really feel for all those writers and editors).
-- Also really interesting at Lainey is her take on John Mayer's recent New York Times interview.
-- AMAZING, at The Art Newspaper: Experts restore rare Dutch Golden Age map found stuffed up a chimney
-- Vulture asks a question I am DEFINITELY INVESTED IN: Did Senator Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling Just Set Up a Real-Life Date Over Twitter?
-- This is one of the best articles I've read recently, at LA Mag: The Hollywood Exec and the Hand Transplant That Changed His Life
-- I also really enjoyed this, at Essence: Dope Girls On The Internet: Giphy's Culture Queen Is Giving Us The GIFs We Need
-- Have you read this piece at The Cut, about the INSANE WORKING PRACTICES at Thinx (a product I really liked). It's INSANE.
-- Also at Vulture: Every Excuse The Americans Has Used to Explain Where The Hell Henry Is All The Time. Er, that's a paraphrase of their headline.
-- Vogue tell us You Can Spend the Night in Henry VIII’s Honeymoon Castle. OKAY!
-- Pajiba outlines Why Television Shows Should Have Term Limits.
-- At Slate: Activists Dressed as Characters From The Handmaid’s Tale to Protest Texas’ Anti-Abortion Measures
-- The Daily Beast asks: Can Lindsay Lohan Be Great Again?
-- At Refinery29, a look at Victoria Beckham's new Target line.
-- At Celebitchy: There is a rumor that Tom Cruise is circling Vanessa Kirby -- you know, Princess Margaret in The Crown -- as his next bride. She is 28. He is 54. SIDE-EYE.
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