Calendar Girls

The Pirelli and the Advent of newsletters made a thing—and it’ll help keep your finger on the pulse.

We’re here to reclaim the “women’s magazine.” Every week, two veteran editors read it ALL to bring you everything we believe women’s media should be: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, hot goss, and the odd shopping tip—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!  

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Spreadbebes,

Last week, the Spread made news (if a tree falls in the forest, etc. etc.). This week, we’re back to school and, friends, we are innovating. We are taking service journalism to new heights! We are flying close to the sun! We are: launching a Google Calendar.

Of course, this is not just any Google Cal! This is a Google Cal for all of Spreadlandia, updated with all of the most important new releases in film, television, and literature. Never again will you plop down on the couch and blow your precious viewing time endlessly scrolling “Netflix recommends.” Now you will know exactly what to watch/read/binge—and when it’s available.

To become part of this pivotal moment in culture journalism, click here to view and subscribe to the Spread Culture Calendar. Tell your book clubs and watch parties they should, too. (Friends don’t let friends miss the premier of The Perfect Couple.) 

A couple housekeeping notes, while we’ve got you on the line: 

• Our goal is to keep el calendario updated at least one month out—though we will try to get ahead of ourselves by plugging in future events during extra-long eps of the Golden Bachelorette (love ya, Joan!). 

• What if you come across an excellent upcoming piece of culture that is absent from our all-but-perfect calendar? Please let us know—or send us an invitation—and we’ll update it in a jiff. 

• We’re committing to providing this service through the end of 2024. If not enough of you subscribe for it to make sense into 2025, we’ll have to cut bait. Which means: subscribe! Invite your friends! Get culturin’! 

Booked and busy,

Rachel & Maggie

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Buckle up, buttercups. We’re in for a very Demi fall. First, Rachel can barely sleep at night, she’s so excited about the Cannes-approved Substance, in which La Moore plays a TV aerobic instructor who gets fired, then turns to magical youth meds, and—screeeeeeech—that’s where the body horror starts (get it on your Spread Culture Calendar here). Then came this Interview shoot, with a Q&A with recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh. (Very subtle, right? Yeah, Moore’s Oscar campaign is on like Donkey Kong.) And lo, in our morning inbox, there she was giving Ghost-era Demi (with Kutcher-era hair) as the face of the newly revived… J.Crew catalog. This woman contains multitudes! 

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Here’s what paid subscribers are scrutinizing even more closely than Kevin Costner’s plugs this week. (Too mean? But, like, did you spend time with these photos? Because we did.)

• Is Surgeon General Murthy the Spreadiest man in America?

• Kehinde Wiley, under the microscope

• Livin’ that Hamptons lifestyle with the Barefoot Contessa

• Chase, Graff, Krakow, Vasquez, and yes, Catalano at 30

• And more!