We Give You Our Summer Faves

Still Processing

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, we celebrate summer and present to you our 2018 Summer Faves. From tech to treats, tunes to TV, and of course, summer looks, we make some recommendations to help you live your best life in these warmer months. Special thanks to James McCombe of Maple Street Creative and Taylor Wizner for remote recording support. Discussed this week:Native Land app (by Victor Temprano, 2015)"Mission: Impossible — Fallout" (directed by Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)"Vida" (Starz, 2018)"Freeway of Love" (Aretha Franklin, "Who's Zoomin' Who?", 1985)"Lucid Dreams" (Juice WRLD, "Goodbye & Good Riddance," 2018)"Afro-Harping" (Dorothy Ashby, 1968)"The greatest five-minute tomato pasta on earth" (Francis Lam, Salon, 2010)"A burger, but better" (Samin Nosrat, The New York Times Magazine, 2018)

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:02.0	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:05.0	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:07.0	And this is still processing.
0:12.0	Ba-da-ba!
0:17.0	Hey, Wesley.
0:18.0	Yes.
0:20.0	We are in the peak of the summer,
0:22.0	which also means we are at the peak of summer deluxe.
0:25.0	Okay?
0:26.0	This is my time to shine.
0:28.0	I was born in the winter, but I am a summer baby all the way.
0:33.0	I love everything about this time of year.
0:35.0	I love waking up early, sand in my sheets, you know,
0:39.0	do-e-skin, thick care from the humidity.
0:42.0	I love watching the sun go down.
0:44.0	I love late night bodega runs.
0:46.0	I love sitting on a rooftop or on a stoop,
0:48.0	reading a book, having a glass of wine.
0:50.0	This is my favorite version of you.
0:52.0	Oh, there's so many things I love about this season.
0:54.0	I have so many favorites, and I want to hear yours too.
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