Eat a Summersgiving feast. Summersgiving is, apparently, a real thing meant to celebrate the summer solstice. Like Thanksgiving, it’s also a time to pig out. Gather some friends and have summery meals like ratatouille, strawberry jalapeño chicken, and summer berry pie.
Read Big Mall by Kate Black. Part cultural history, part personal essay, Canadian writer Kate Black uses her childhood experiences at the West Edmonton Mall as a jumping-off point for a broader examination of shopping malls: why we love and why we hate them.
Watch Thelma, now in theatres. At the spry and tender age of 94, the beloved character actress June Squibb gets her first-ever starring role playing a woman who goes on a comic quest to retrieve the money she lost to a phone scammer. She even did her own stunts!
Listen to Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) with Jamie Loftus. The culture podcasting maven’s newest pod will be of interest to anyone who has ever used the phrase “terminally online.” In it, she takes a trip down internet memory lane to investigate former viral phenoms.—QH