T LOunge for November 12th 2024

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Darlings, our refuge from reality (vacation in Ireland) only has one more day to go and we’re feeling especially delusional about the prospect of returning to the real world at the moment, so why don’t you all join us in a semi-imaginary LOunge today and we can all pretend the outside world doesn’t exist together. To help you with your break from reality, we’ve scheduled a lovely little parade of frivolities and distractions for you. It’s TUESDAY. Settle in.

Everyone Else Is Giving a Standing Ovation. Do I Have To?
Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.
First things first: You’re not imagining things. Standing ovations have become ubiquitous in recent years. They’re now so frequent that it often feels to me as if the audience members making a statement are those who choose to remain seated, rather than those who rise to their feet.

The Enduring Relevance of the Fashion in The Thomas Crown Affair
Nineties style is everywhere again, and nobody served the look better at the movies than Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair. Twenty five years later, we’re still obsessed with her refined neutrals, face-framing turtlenecks, and a white coat that says: I’ve got 30 more.
“I love what you do!” A woman approached Michael Kors during a visit to Big Sur—in the hotel pool, of all places. She wasn’t referring to his most recent hits. She went bigger-picture.
“The way Rene Russo looked in The Thomas Crown Affair!” she gushed. “I still base how I want to look on how she looked in that movie.”
“That movie,” John McTiernan’s redo of Norman Jewison’s 1968 original, is a slick, romantic caper. It’s also a fashion classic, a brilliant example of the role clothes can play in creating a fictional character. Russo plays Catherine Banning, a sophisticated insurance investigator out to nail Pierce Brosnan’s playboy cat burglar.
Twenty-five years after the film’s release, Russo’s sultry, commanding wardrobe looks as valid as it did in 1999.

Forget basic florals, these 11 perfumes are beautifully unique, draw people in and demand attention
When it comes to the best perfumes, overtly floral and fruity perfumes usually tend to get their fair share of attention. But if you tend to steer clear of sweets, spicy perfumes may be more likely to attract your nose.
Spicy ingredients can come from different sources, including fruits, flowers and seeds, and they can be fresh, warm, sour or sweet. There’s therefore plenty of variety in this category; everything from pink pepper to nutmeg and ginger to coriander can be considered hero notes in spicy perfumes.

Brown blusher is proving this season’s easiest and most versatile make-up product—here’s how to wear it
As well as the best products for the job
Move over pink, brown blusher is in. Yes, this season, blusher is evolving to be more in keeping with autumn. While the red blush trend is still going strong (it’s actually the perfect shade for natural-looking colour), brown blusher is absolutely not to be missed right now.
While many of us have been using brown blush for years, others are just now discovering the gorgeous appeal of this shade for the cheeks. TikTok users, for example, are going wild for the colour, proving just how beautiful it looks on.

I’ve given up with lightweight perfumes—these 11 fragrances are like donning an expensive power suit
Expect high intensity, unparalleled longevity and serious empowerment
After enduring many years of fragrance trends leaning towards lightweight scents, I’m welcoming the return of intense perfumes with open arms. I’ve been working in the beauty industry for many years and have a particular talent for spotting special scents and emerging fragrance trends. Over the past few years, lists of the best perfumes have heavily featured fresh perfumes, skin scents and light floral fragrances—yes, soft perfumes have really marked their territory.
However, as prices of perfumes started to hike and niche fragrances became more and more popular, I have had a feeling that the lightweight perfume trend was set to be short lived.

Is your social media experience out of your control?
Social media algorithms can send us down negative rabbit holes. Here’s how to overcome them—and why you should
Do you ever feel like your social media experience is totally out of your control? Or perhaps you wish that your algorithm didn’t keep showing you a particular kind of content? We’ve all seen headlines about how social media can be harmful to our mental health—and this is true. But the truth is, social media can be bad for us and good for us. Taking greater control, and finding the right balance is one of the great challenges we face in our personal lives.

The ELLE Guide To Styling Wide-Leg Jeans Like A Fashion Insider
Consider all your new-season outfits, sorted.
It’s one thing spotting a trend on the runway, however, and entirely another to translate it into real life. That’s where we come in. Keep scrolling for ELLE UK’s guide to how to style wide-leg jeans like a fashion insider, featuring street style looks to pin to your moodboard, fool-proof outfit formulas to follow, and, of course, the best pieces to shop.

‘Irish hair’ has taken off on TikTok for its pretty mixed-texture strands
Here’s what you need to know…
Another day, another beauty lesson on TikTok. “Irish hair” or “Irish curls” are the latest focus to start getting the recognition they deserve on the platform, with many users discovering for the first time that their hair texture, despite the name, is prevalent around the world.

13 Of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Best Roles To Date
From a tragic Shakespearean hero to a millionaire stockbroker, Leonardo DiCaprio has depicted a broad range of weird and wonderful characters across our screens for four decades. After his breakout in the Academy Award-nominated What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and later, his tear-jerking performance in Titanic, he solidified his status as a ’90s heartthrob. More recently, we have seen him play a charismatic con man, a legendary tycoon, and a rugged frontiersman, all the while scooping up countless awards along the way. As he turns 50, we look back on his most impactful roles to date.

Is Cheese Healthy? Depends, According to This Nutritionist
Name a more deliciously versatile product than cheese: it can be salty, mature, soft, or creamy—and sometimes even sweet.
“There are entire cultures that can be defined by cheese,” opines Vogue Mexico writer Ramón Barreto. “Even in a world where whole milk is not the most popular form of dairy, cheese continues to provide essential nutrients that cannot be denied.” Studies show that the overall category of “cheese” contains necessary proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, and more—though a soft Brie and a hard parmesan are not equally as healthy.

What to Know About Washing Your Hair at Night
When it comes to washing hair at night, there’s something you should know: Going to bed with damp hair is never a good idea—in fact, it is one of the worst things you can do for the health of your hair. “Wet hair is a breeding ground for dermatitis and possible fungus,” dermatologist Clara Lacasta says. “In addition, when hair is wet, it is at its weakest state and breaks more.”

These 24 Fall Cookbooks Deserve a Spot on Your Shelf
Our new favorite releases include weeknight manuals, baking bibles, and more.
Fall means harvest, and we’ve gathered a crop of irresistible cookbooks that will inspire you in the kitchen throughout the year.
Modern cookbooks are artifacts, visual feasts that serve just as well on a coffee table as they do splattered with oil and sauce on a countertop. These books, beautifully photographed and illustrated, are no exception. They are often more, too: memoir in Tom Colicchio’s Why I Cook; geography and history in Ashleigh Shanti’s Our South; voice, personality, humor in Nok Suntaranon’s Kalaya’s Southern Thai Kitchen; tradition, culture, wisdom in The League of Kitchens Cookbook.
We all only have so much space on our bookshelves, but these 24 cookbooks, selected by the Food & Wine team, are well worth the real estate.

How Do Hops Affect Beer? A Guide to Popular Varieties and Their Flavors
Hops are the key ingredient that turn beer into beer. If you want to be an expert, here’s what you need to know.
Hops have fueled the modern beer renaissance. After Prohibition all but destroyed the brewing industry in the U.S., American light lager dominated shelves and taps following its repeal. Variations of the crisp, but not at all hoppy, beer were essentially the only available style in the country for decades.
Lagers remain wildly popular. But in the early 1980s, a handful of pioneers sought to broaden the market and embraced ales with a hop-forward nature. This spawned an era of unbridled creativity, a renewed interest in hop growing, and new methods in brewing.

Matty Matheson Says These 2 Ingredients Are the Secret to Making Better Gravy
They’re probably already in your pantry.
When you want to add a punch of flavor to something, the first person you should turn to is Matty Matheson. The 42-year-old chef, restaurateur, and actor in “The Bear” is bold in everything he does. His YouTube videos are colorfully edited, captioned in all caps, and liberally sprinkled with curse words — even his fictional television character, handyman Neil Fak, is over the top.
So the chef was an obvious choice when I went looking for advice on how to quickly take any gravy to the next level. And let’s be honest, a lot of gravies are woefully lackluster, so we could all use a trick up our sleeve to easily amp them up before the big turkey day.

Starbucks’ Holiday Menu Is Back — and it Includes 6 Seasonal Drinks, New Cold Foams, and Sweet Treats
It’s just not the holidays without a Cranberry Bliss Bar.
As soon as there’s a chill in the air and Mariah Carey hits the airwaves, we find ourselves craving a little holiday cheer in our morning latte. We were already blessed with festive options at Dunkin’ late last week, which left us wondering what holiday surprises other coffee joints have in store. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait too long.
Starbucks’ holiday menu rolls out nationwide on November 7, according to a company press release shared with Food & Wine. The seasonal lineup brings five holiday coffees — which, of course, includes the returning alum Peppermint Mocha — as well as a new Refresher, a savory pastry, and three new sweet treats.

The Fall Superfood That Beat Out Even Grapefruit in Nutrition
Pumpkin also reigned supreme over strawberries and blackberries.
Pumpkins may be the ultimate fall fruit, but they’re a nutritional powerhouse worth enjoying all year long. Technically classified as a fruit because they develop from the seed-bearing structure of flowering plants, pumpkins pack a punch with their impressive nutrient profile.
In fact, the CDC recently ranked a list of fruits and vegetables by nutrient density, and while leafy greens like watercress scored at 100, and beet greens in the 80s, when it came to fruit, pumpkin was the top with a respectable score of 32 — making it the most nutrient-dense fall fruit. “Pumpkin can often be overlooked, but it has many functional benefits,” said Jessica Swift Harrell, R.D.N., I.F.N.C.P., a registered dietitian and chef certified in Integrative and Functional Nutrition.

200 Unique Japanese Baby Names for Boys and Girls
Nature-inspired names are on the rise!
Sakura Godber’s first instinct when considering baby names for her son in 2012 was to lean toward more Western names. Her own first name, which means “cherry blossom” in Japanese, was paired with a Western middle name — Diane — to reflect her Japanese American identity.
But for a time during her childhood, Godber wished to be more legible to American society and wanted to be called by her middle name. When it came time to name their son, her husband emphasized the value of honoring her Japanese ancestry, so she made a swift mental switch.
“We need to have Japanese names for their identity, purpose,” says Godber, an insurance underwriter from Pasadena, California.

Who was Empress Elisabeth of Austria? Discover the captivating story of the tragic ‘beauty queen’
The ill-fated Empress Elisabeth ‘Sissi’ of Austria has had her story retold countless times on screen. Now, as season two of The Empress promises to reveal the truth of her story, what is the truth behind the drama?
Empress Elisabeth of Austria remains a figure of fascination 125 years on. Beautiful, tragic, powerful – it is easy to understand why the tale of this ill-fated royal beauty has captured the imagination.
Born into the royal Bavarian House of Wittelsbach, Elisabeth enjoyed an informal upbringing, where her hands-on mother and father raised her to explore the countryside and enjoy creative musings. The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and educated in the values of creativity and adventure, the dullness of royal life was no match for Sissi. In an act of defiance, the empress took up smoking (ironic, considering her fear of ageing), riding and gymnastics during her marriage, which caused her to become a reluctant victim of gossip.

‘This Is the Best of the Best’
Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese sauce, tomato-rich and smoothed with milk, remains a reader favorite.
Good morning. When Marcella Hazan, the self-taught Italian cook who showed Americans a new way to cook Italian food, died in 2013, my colleagues on the Food desk of The Times published what we refer to in the office as a “call-out” — a request to readers that they share their answers to a particular question. In this case, we wanted to know which of Hazan’s recipes was their favorite.

60 Small Kitchen Ideas That Will Make Your Space Feel Bigger and Brighter
Function meets style with these brilliant small kitchen ideas.
They say that a kitchen is the heart of the home. It’s where you craft delicious meals for people you love, it serves as a congregating spot during a party or event, and it holds space for both memories past and yet to come.
This is true no matter the size of the space. Even if you’re working with a small kitchen, it makes sense to optimize every square inch so it becomes a place where you enjoy spending time. From cozy seating nooks to clever organizational tips, these small kitchen ideas deliver big impact without compromising style or function.

11 Handmade Gifts for Book Lovers
Giving a bibliophile a coveted new book? Make your gift extra special by pairing it with a handmade accessory.
Do you have someone in your life who lives and breathes books? If so, an avid reader will need some essentials to go along with their reading habit. You can put together a few handmade gifts for them, such as a beautifully crafted bookmark or a set of gilded bookends to keep everything in place.
Handmade gifts like these are perfect because they solve some of the problems that book enthusiasts face on a daily basis—and they are also a wonderful personalized addition to a gifted book. For inspiration, here are some of our favorite DIY gifts for book lovers.

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