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What to do this weekend

May 17, 2025

What to do this weekend

Eat a Marry Me anything. Since its inception in 2016, Marry Me Chicken — a chicken dish with a delectable cream sauce — goes viral every so often. It’s gaining traction again, but this time with internet chefs making variations like Marry Me chickpeas, gnocchi, and soup. 

Read Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read. Subtitled How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America, this book takes a look at the history of multilevel marketing, tracing how companies like Mary Kay and Herbalife built empires, moved products, and shattered lives.

Watch Hurry Up Tomorrow, now in theatres. Canadian pop superstar Abel Tesfaye (a.k.a. The Weeknd) stars in this companion piece to his last album, fittingly playing a paranoid pop superstar. We know reactions were rough last time he acted, but give him another chance. 

Listen to La Belleza by Lido Pimienta. The acclaimed Colombian-Canadian singer returns with her first album since 2020’s Grammy-nominated Miss Colombia. It marks an exciting pivot to new sounds, trading in synthpop for, get this, orchestral Gregorian chants.—QH

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