Ideas

Wine, bills, and vibes: inside the weirdly fun rise of Admin Night

Have your friends over, pour a glass of wine, and… pay your bills?

Game nights. Birthdays. Drinks. They’re all just pretexts to see your friends. You’re not desperate to lose at Catan again. You just want time with people you actually like.

The problem is adulthood. Emails pile up. Bills sit unpaid. Appointments get postponed. The admin never ends.

As Erik Barnes reports, some people have started solving this in a surprisingly social way. They invite friends over, pour a drink, put on chill music, and quietly knock out the boring stuff together. No pressure. No productivity bros. Just collective adulting.

They’re calling it an ‘Admin Night.’ And it’s quietly changing how people deal with adulthood.

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Did you miss the story of the older women who are pairing bold fashion with bold living? Have a read!

So, what color was Andy's lumpy sweater? That was the quiz question yesterday, and 47% of you knew it was cerulean. But how many of you knew what the question was even about? It’s from the famous scene from The Devil Wears Prada!

• Turquoise (14.3%)

• Blue (31.0%)

• Cerulean (47.6%) ✅

• Lapis (7.1%)

As Glenn Close’s Miranda says, “That sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.”

Good People

She lost her wedding rings in the one place equipped to help find them

Word is, the insurance company didn’t cover any of it.

Susan Sinnwell wasn’t allowed to wear her rings during her X-ray at Grundy County Memorial Hospital, so she wrapped them in a napkin, set them aside, and swore to herself that she wouldn’t forget. Then she forgot. The rings, heirlooms from her grandparents, wound up in the trash, and Sinnwell didn’t clock the mistake until the next day.

Sinnwell would have been forgiven for writing the rings off as lost, but instead, as Erik Barnes reports, she waded into piles of the hospital’s garbage with a metal detector and… found nothing. But that’s when an X-ray technician had an idea.

I’m pretty proud of myself. I didn’t make a Lord of the Rings reference in this story. I pass the test. I will diminish and go into the West, and remain Greg.

Culture

It took six years to learn why her brain stopped cooperating with her body

Without a diagnosis, she kept losing pieces of her life.

For six years, Maureen Henry lived with body twitches, foggy thinking, and debilitating fatigue, all without even the comfort of a diagnosis. A parade of doctors left her with wrong answers or no answers at all.

As Adam Albright Hanna reports, after years of loss, unanswered questions, and the disappearance of the career she loved, one appointment finally changed the trajectory of her life.

On January 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters first took the court. They were initially called the New York Globetrotters and had, at that point, not trotted the globe at all, having sprung up out of the all-Black Savoy Big Five in Chicago. They changed the name to Harlem to signal black excellence, and they were undeniably excellent. The comically stylized game they play today wasn’t part of the early days. The Globe Trotters played real basketball and did it well with early standouts like Inman “Big Jack” Jackson. How good were they? They beat the NBA-champion Minneapolis Lakers twice in the late 40s.

Early games were ad hoc “barnstorming” affairs in which teams set up their own games and handled their own ticketing. Think indy band gigging from the back of a van.

The showmanship that has become the team's hallmark evolved organically from early little flourishes and eventually became a major part of the team's appeal. The famous tune you might be whistling to yourself right now is Sweet Georgia Brown, which the team began using in 1952.

Today, the team lives up to its name, travelling the world blending jaw-dropping hoops, comedy, and community clinics to spark joy and inspire new fans in every gym they visit. Do-do-doo, do-DO-doot-doo indeed!

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