- Have a safe and fun holiday weekend, everyone; see you back here Tuesday the 5th. Meanwhile, check out these photos of extinct and endangered insects, by photographer Leon Biss. (Colossal)
- A fun chat about go-to summer recipes. (Go Fug Yourself)
- Amusing: the least historically accurate music biopics. (Vulture)
- Fascinating: a history of New York’s mysterious and fancy Olympic Tower. (Curbed)
- We’ve got an amusing episode of Everything is Fine for you this week, so be sure to check that out, and also! Jenn and I did an AMA this week that you can see here. (Apple Podcasts, TueNight)
- This is handy: how to find a financial advisor. (The Cut)
- Growing up trans in Texas. (Vogue)
- I enjoyed this piece about how and why fashion is awful right now. (Atlantic via Go Fug Yourself)
- The great Susan Orlean weighs in on the life of Hawaiian Tropic mogul Ron Rice. (New Yorker)
- A great obit of burlesque queen Betty Rowland. (NY Times)