Eat a crispy rice salad. Looking to crunch-ify your salad? Look no further than that fave grain you probably have kicking around in your pantry. Crispy rice salads are all the rage right now, the perfect canvas for all sorts of flavours: tahini, ginger, gochujang, you name it.
Read The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien. One of 2025’s most anticipated works of Canlit, the Governor General's Award winner’s latest is a centuries-spanning epic about a young girl growing up in a massive housing complex that exists outside space and time.
Watch Conan O’Brien Must Go on Crave. One of our favourite TV genres is ‘whimsical travel show.’ And who better to deliver the whimsy than the recent Mark Twain Prize winner Conan O’Brien? In the season two premiere, he visits Spain with help from Javier Bardem.
Listen to Lifetime by Erika de Casier. The Danish musician surprise-released a new album this week, just over a year after her previous effort. Her ethereal and sensual mood music is heavily influenced by 2000s R&B, but powered by an original spark that is all her own.—QH
