APW Happy Hour

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Hey APW,

After last week’s house arrest, this week practically flew by. Sure, I still don’t (and probably never will again) have my wallet, but at least the car is registered and I can leave my house. Downside: that means I got to go to the dentist for the very first filling of my life. Upside: on the way home from work, the guy who runs the fruit stand at the end of my driveway gave me a free coconut with a straw in it. So… I’m calling this week a draw.

Other than that, this weekend we’re prepping the house for my nineteen-year-old brother to come visit. If anyone has recommendations for cool things to do in the Bay Area that will make your slightly sullen teenager think you’re cool, I’ll take whatever I can get. But otherwise, it’s your happy hour, so go on and get to it.

Cheers,

Maddie

Highlights of APW This Week

What do you do when you fiancé’s parents think you’re too young to marry?

Need more winter wedding inspiration? Here’s some.

floral centerpiece for minimalists. (Calla Lilies are back, y’all.)

Everything you ever wanted to know about reserving hotel blocks.

Friendship gets way more complicated with age.

Is the girl in the mirror a harpy, a succubus, or a siren?

Short-haired bride alert (getting married on a mountain, no less.)

Everyone should have an “Awesome” folder.

You can hate your wedding dress, but love your wedding.

Link Roundup

Ms. Magazine’s new column doesn’t need you to make your kid’s life one big Pinterest board.

Humans of New York takes on Beyoncé and it’s epic.

This artist makes adorable monsters of thrift store paintings.

No kids for me, thanks.

It’s like a disposable camera, in your phone.

A really beautiful meditation on being biracial and also cheap tacos.

Rolling Stone just doesn’t get it.

When you come out of the closet, sometimes, you fill that closet with Modcloth.

I can’t believe I used one of my ten free articles of the month to read this.

Here’s another feminist wedding magazine, because there can never be enough.

Dove’s (newest) campaign (I’m not sure I like this one so much.)

Finally: a policeman is charged with murder in the (horrific) death of (yet another) unarmed black man.

Thoughts on ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.’

This best man might make you tear up.

A paper shop is turning gay hate into confetti.

Two ambivalent women walk into a wedding expo.

Malta is the first country to ban “normalization” surgery on intersex infants.

NFL star was a known serial rapist, and the police didn’t care.

Let your eyes enjoy these dapper Sardar photos.

How many of the best 100 books of this decade have you read?

Some men wear Spanx and that’s cool.

A horror story made up of Apple Watch reviews.

It’s not fun to be a parent working in tech.

Toni Morrison inspires all of the awe, forever.

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