We’re nearing the center of August, summer season at its ripest. Earlier this week, a New York climate Twitter account issued a reminder that, relying in your disposition, might be taken pretty much as good tidings or as a little bit of a bummer:
I’m within the latter camp, however I’m working by means of it. A lifelong partisan of summer season’s lengthy days, I attempt to not really feel cross at those that come alive when the sunshine will get decrease. I attempt to not really feel personally attacked by the sweet corn show within the drugstore, by Billy Crystal in his fisherman sweater and sweatpants.
Just lately, my colleague Sam Sifton and I had been discussing the matter of summer season’s passing, and after I started to get rueful, he stopped me. “We’re not within the down elevator simply but,” he mentioned. This was on the finish of July, and I agreed. There have been nonetheless six weeks until Labor Day. We had been nonetheless in the course of the ascent.
So reasonably than urgent each flooring’s button making an attempt vainly to make the elevator cease, I’m decided to benefit from the trip.
First off, it’s peak corn on the cob and Caprese season, time to go full tomato mode. It’s additionally s’mores season, and I’m excited to attempt changing graham crackers with saltines, as my colleague Tanya Sichynsky advised, for a barely less-sweet deal with. There’s nonetheless loads of summer season left: time for letting your thoughts wander, for hitting Coney Island, for monitoring the migrations of ships and sharks.
One other approach to stave off the sense of issues ending: Make plans. That is the time to e-book a visit, to fill your calendar with meet-ups and films, to plant seeds that may blossom when the climate turns colder. “Imagining good issues forward of us makes us really feel higher within the present second,” the psychologist Simon A. Rego informed The Occasions.
At Sam’s suggestion, I checked out Robert McCloskey’s 1958 Caldecott Medal-winning “Time of Surprise” from the library. It’s an image e-book a few summer season spent on the islands of Maine. The e-book captures nicely that wistfulness of loving summer season and leaving it behind: “Take a farewell take a look at the waves and sky. Take a farewell sniff of the salty sea. Somewhat bit unhappy in regards to the place you’re leaving, slightly bit glad in regards to the place you’re going.”
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THE WEEK IN CULTURE
CULTURE CALENDAR
🍿 “E.T. the Further-Terrestrial” (restricted engagement beginning this weekend): August is usually a horrible month for brand new films, however we’re in a very dry spell in the meanwhile. I do know what I’ll be doing this weekend, although: taking my child to see the fortieth anniversary rerelease of this basic Steven Spielberg movie, which is enjoying at choose IMAX display screen areas throughout the nation. Everybody, I watched the trailer and the music made me tear up. The music. (I may even be seeing “Jaws” when it will get a rerelease on IMAX screens, beginning Sept. 2.)
📚 “Warmth 2” (out now): If you already know a man who likes crime dramas, you then may know somebody who likes “Warmth,” the epic — in size, not less than — 1995 movie starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer. (There’s a straightforward take a look at to discern whether or not or not somebody likes “Warmth.” Simply say the road “For me, the motion is the juice” and see whether or not or not they smile in recognition.) The director Michael Mann has now revealed a novel with the thriller author Meg Gardiner that serves as each prequel and sequel to the movie. I’m so excited to learn this that I checked out my copy the opposite day and mentioned, “Brother, you’re going down.” (Simply to be clear, that’s additionally a line from “Warmth.”)
RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Coconut Rice With Shrimp and Corn
My household simply returned from an almost two-week trip, and I’ve to confess, easing again into the nightly ritual of cooking dinner has been a problem. Fortunately, Samantha Seneviratne has my again together with her pleasant one-pot coconut rice with shrimp and corn. Though you can also make it in winter with frozen corn, it’s actually sensational with the contemporary corn that’s obtainable proper now. Her tip for slicing the kernels off the cob is my go-to methodology: Lay the cob flat on the slicing board for slicing, reasonably than standing it upright; it’s a lot quicker and fewer messy. The coconut milk provides simply the appropriate richness right here, balanced with jalapeño, ginger and a great deal of contemporary lime juice and zest. It’s a satisfying mixture, all 12 months lengthy.
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REAL ESTATE
The hunt: She needed a starter house in Brooklyn. Which did she select? Play our sport.
City planning: A D.C. neighborhood is making an attempt to construct a park with out displacing its residents.
Inside out: A backyard in Rhode Island makes rooms out of the panorama to create calm and focus.
LIVING
New York Yankees vs. Boston Pink Sox, M.L.B.: Aaron Decide is having the season of his life. Heading into this collection with the Pink Sox, Decide had 45 residence runs. That’s not simply essentially the most within the league — it’s additionally on tempo to interrupt the Yankees’ single-season document of 61, set by Roger Maris in 1961. “It doesn’t stop to amaze, the season he’s placing collectively,” Yankees Supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned just lately. 7 p.m. Jap on Sunday, ESPN.