LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Utopia" Edition
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Dear Folks,
Again, L'Shanah Tovah! Happy Jewish New Year to all.
If you have a chance, see David Byrne's 'American Utopia.' It is a gold-standard, A+ concert-as-theater experience, with the same musicianship and fun and intellectual layers as made The Talking Heads so great when I first heard them.
Not as A+: the lady who gave me the finger -- behind my back! -- as we both exited a restaurant directly across the street from the theater, prior to the show.
I noticed her as we passed her on the way out. She was hollering at the maitresse d' about having ordered the cookies from the pre-fixe theater menu "to go." But they weren't at the table yet, and she was gonna be late. I noticed the scene but did not make much of it except that the four in our party had to pass the four in their party and it was an "excuse me, pardon me" situation, which we did without incident. Or so I thought.
With plenty of time to spare, my party and I were at the theater waiting in line to hand over our tickets to the ticket-taker/scanner at the theater, and we turned around to chat and pass the time when my husband noticed something, then turned back to me and said "Oh that's the lady that gave you the finger!" and I said "What?!" and he said "Yeah, she gave you the finger behind your back as we were leaving the restaurant!"
Well now, Days of Awe or not, I like a good low-impact confrontation on a fun night out.
So I took a few steps back in line and looked at the lady, a little (maybe a lot?) younger than me, a white, well-turned out, professional looking Manhattanite. Her face blanched as she saw me approach. I said, "next time you want to give me the finger, do it to my face." She did compose herself well and said "I'm sorry. I over-reacted."
I still didn't know the part I played in the whole incident to get her that upset, so I said "to what?" and she just said "I'm sorry!" again. I said "Look we're all stressed and have jobs and families and lots of problems, don't take it out on people trying to do their jobs!" and then *I* got crazy and totally unnecessarily added "Happy New Year, good luck with the whole Book Of Life thing." She really apologized again. We went in.
So now that probably puts me in a more likely position to have to atone, since she actually got her casting off of sin out of the way before the show and I didn't.So now I feel bad. I am going to hope she is maybe actually a subscriber and wish her a very sincere apology. It was dumb to make her maybe feel any more stressed than she was.
Btw we actually did get the cookies in time, at our prix-fixe table, and they were really good! I hope she goes back and has a chance to enjoy them.
Nothing to apologize for here-- in fact it's a mitzvah to find for you, every week, the most important, thought-provoking news about women in politics, news, business, media, campus life, health, science, the arts, and pop culture. And it's always good for a laugh, somewhere in there.
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Happy and peaceful week to you all! May you have an easy fast, as we say in the Yom Kippur business.
LZ.
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
Susan Sontag's Queer Life via BuzzFeed News
NEWS, BUSINESS & POLITICS:
These Five Freshman Congresswomen Changed History By Becoming Unlikely Leaders On Impeachment via CNN
At The Supreme Court, Where Are The Women Advocates? via The National Law Journal
Where Are All The Women In Private Equity? via Bloomberg
Forever 21's Bankruptcy Isn't The End Of Fast Fashion. But It Is The End Of A Cheap, Sparkly Era. via Think via NBC News
You Seem Suspiciously Clever For A Blonde via The California Sunday Magazine
CAMPUS CLIMATE:
Banding Together: Bowdoin Housekeepers Share Their Story via The Bowdoin Orient
As The NBA's Female Coaches Ranks Grow, College Hoops Lags Behind via Sports Illustrated
ARTS & CULTURE:
Planned Parenthood's Secret Hollywood Weapon via The Washington Post
A Photographer Looks For Herself In The Movies She Loved via The New York Times
It's So Much More Than Cooking via The Week
Cooking In Restaurants Taught Me What Workplace Harassment Is via Food52
What Happens When A Woman Covers Bruce Springsteen, and I Finally Feel Seen via Post-Online via The Brown Daily Herald
John Updike: Malfunctioning Sex Robot via The London Review Of Books
OBITUARY:
Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With 'Julia,' Dies at 84 via The New York Times
Without Diahann Carroll, We Wouldn't Have Olivia Pope via The Washington Post
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…?
Girl, You're A Middle-Aged Woman Now via The New Yorker
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