Five for the Weekend

Rebecca Marx

16 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

A brief weekly round-up of some things that are good.

Helen Frankenthaler is at MoMA for three more weeks!

Mulatu Astatke's Éthiopiques Vol. 4, forever transcendent.

People in the U.K. are helping hedgehogs by creating hedgehog highways, a phrase I will never get tired of saying.

Gourmet magazine is kind of sort of coming back because Condé Nast isn't good about renewing trademarks.

This is very Brooklyn-specific, but I finally tried Bryan Ford's Afghan bakery Diljan, which recently opened in Brooklyn Heights, and it it is very, very good. (Photographic evidence above.)

amy poehler and gwyneth paltrow on the good hang podcast

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