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September 29, 2026·Edition 49

Is your inner child out of control?

Internet Microdoses

Adults now buy more toys than kids. Grown-up-only households drove 55% of U.S. toy sales in the first half of 2026, buying Lego sets and Pokémon cards in numbers well beyond the average allowance. Inner children are now running the world. Find out which toys sold most →

Karl Bushby has spent 28 years walking nearly 30,000 miles to get home. He left Chile in 1998, intending to walk back to Hull, England. Now Werner Herzog is turning the journey into a documentary, with 16 years’ worth of footage to work through. It sounds boring, but just imagine it with Herzog’s narration. Why is this guy walking home? →

Archaeologists may have found traces of pre-Roman Paris. A 66-foot wall found beneath a Paris hospital may be part of ancient Lutetia, dating back more than 2,000 years. And then, over 2,000 years later, a young marketing executive named Emily moved there for work, finding herself in the process. See Paris before it was Paris →

Merriam-Webster added 1,400 words and definitions this month, including looksmaxxing, crashout, and cuffing season. Last year’s word of the year was “slop,” the name for AI’s low-effort filler. And yet somehow these ones are worse. Use your words →

Going offline is the new going out. As phone-free parties and spaces catch on, Aftertaste is bringing the movement to the art-and-design crowd. Founded by bicoastal cousins Angelika Zelko and Julia Garcia, the event series turned USM’s Bushwick studio into The Collector’s Apartment for Armory Week, collecting over 400 phones at the afterparty. Take a look inside →

Meta was roasted for its big keynote. Zuck introduced new smart glasses in a T-shirt that read “Building is my love language.” The flagship pair’s big feature is the camera they took out after critics started calling the last ones “pervert glasses.” They also unveiled what looks like an AI Tamagotchi for no reason. At least we think that’s what this is →

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Aesthetic Study

Faking Fall

Stars Hollow was never in Connecticut. They shot Gilmore Girls on a backlot in Burbank, where the crew faked New England autumn by swapping real leaves for silk ones, creating the perfect backdrop for Rory and Lorelai to sip from obviously empty coffee cups.

Twenty-plus years later, the new reigning queen of fall is Caitlin Covington — the de facto spokesperson for “Christian Girl Autumn” — who makes a pilgrimage to Vermont every single year to find the real thing.

Both are forcing it, but it raises the question: Which is the authentic autumn — the one you build or the one you cross the country to stand in?

A still from The Daytrippers (1996) by Greg Mottola, with Liev Schreiber, Anne Meara, and Parker Posey

No matter what, everyone’s dressed the same: sweater cuffs over cupped hands, a beanie, the plaid blanket scarf, boots in a pile of raked leaves, a cup of something orange. But the basic B outfit is becoming a simulacrum. It’s a season we fake because it’s ceasing to exist.

The red and purple leaves we associate with fall can only be created after a string of cold evenings. Fall nights have warmed in nearly 9 of the 10 spots scientists track, by about 2.7°F since 1970. So trees stay green longer and turn faster. At Harvard Forest, peak color now shows up three to five days later than it did twenty years ago, and it may slip a full week by mid-century. A dry summer can cancel the whole show, turning leaves brown before they ever turn red. Every year, the window to catch real fall gets a little smaller.

Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer as Monica and Ross in the Friends episode 'The One with the Football' (1996).

That’s why Covington has to leave for better leaves. Warmer autumns wash the color out and cut it short — one foliage camera watched the peak window shrink from eleven days to nine in a single year. But Gilmore Girls had no such problem, which might explain why we can’t stop watching. The fall is flawless and permanent, exactly how the set dressers intended. The invented town will have its perfect autumn forever. It’s the real one that’s running out.

  • Caitlin Covington cancelled Christian Girl Autumn last year
  • HBO Max is making an official Gilmore Girls documentary
  • The science of why fall keeps coming later and duller
  • How cold campuses and jazz built the classic fall outfit
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September 29, 2026·Interview

Coco & Clair Clair

Two new singles, an album on the way, and a conversation about the small rituals that keep them grounded.

Coco & Clair Clair
Coco & Clair Clair

A moment with

Coco & Clair Clair

Two new singles, an album on the way, and a conversation about the small rituals that keep them grounded.

Coco & Clair Clair met on Twitter as teenagers, when Clair liked so many of Coco’s posts that Coco sent her a DM. The Atlanta duo, best friends Taylor Nave and Claire Toothill, makes deadpan, hyper-online rap-pop: glossy brags and inside jokes over homemade beats, the kind of songs that soundtracked the internet before TikTok made everything the same. Two years after their album Girl, they're back with two new singles, "Coldplay" and "One One," and an album on the way. Here, the two of them share the places that reset them, the one tattoo that will never earn their trust, and a fortune-cookie message delivered by an animal.

You both had mentioned you are working on a new album following the release of your singles. Any facts to share on what that'll look like?

Clair Clair: We've had a pretty hectic year with a lot of changes, so we're both feeling pretty inspired. We send voice memos to each other throughout the day to share ideas, and have like, three different documents containing new lyrics and several shared folders with demos for our new songs... and we're constantly adding more to each. So we're just working a lot, and we have a lot to work with. Who knows what we'll do next...

Coco: One thing that's for sure is whatever we release next will be done without a manager :)

Has there been a favorite moment you two have shared recently while performing or creating that stands out in your minds?

Clair Clair: I really loved our last performance, which was at Rally Festival in London. I felt so connected to and supported by everyone in the audience, even the people who weren't there to see us, and even though it was one of the largest crowds we've ever performed in front of. Coco's in-ears broke right before we had to sing a song we had never played live before, which was a very interesting and unique problem to have on stage in front of that many people, but we were having too much fun to really care.

Coco: Yeah, the last festival we played in London was one of the best, most freeing experiences to date. Usually we don't expect to receive so much love at festivals because there are so many other artists who people come to see, and sometimes in really different genres than our own. But at Rally Fest, we felt all the love and the support, which really reminds you what it's all for.

Three places you’ve felt inspired by.

Clair Clair: Any beach/beach town, almost every wedding I've been to, and New York.

Coco: By the river, in the car with the sunroof open on a beautiful day, amongst the trees on a hike.

What's your hot take?

Clair Clair: There are too many hot takes!

Coco: Anyone that has that star tattoo with each little leg half filled in is untrustworthy or unstable or both.

What do you listen to on repeat?

Clair Clair: Our new song, "One One," or Chxrry's new album.

Coco: Our own demos.

What are the most worthwhile investments you've made?

Clair Clair: Spending time with my parents and my sister, late nights working on music, my recent vacation in Jamaica with Coco, trips to New York to visit my friends and my boyfriend, and my Lexus.

Coco: Taking time for yourself is the greatest investment.

What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?

Clair Clair: I give a small kiss to my right ring finger after every prayer.

Coco: I probably eat chickpeas every day.

Who is your forever inspo?

Clair Clair: Anybody who is very calm.

Coco: The-Dream and Bill Callahan. Exceptional songwriters.

Write us a fortune cookie message.

Clair Clair: In the very near future, you will receive a message from an animal that will clarify everything.

Coco: Challenges in life don’t arise haphazardly, no matter how accidental or coincidental they may seem. They arise when you’re ready to transcend them. P.S. Not when you're ready to be squashed, but when you're ready to grow, overcome, and be more than who you were before they arrived.

Check them out on Instagram, and on Cosmos: Clair Clair and Coco

Object Love

Heirlooms in Acrylic

Heirlooms in Acrylic

Joyce Lin's table and chair are antiquities sealed away. Each block of matte blue acrylic suspends a blurred antique just out of reach. Lin is a Houston-based artist and furniture maker who treats familiar forms like chairs and tables as studies in dissection and mimicry. She studied furniture design at RISD and geology-biology at Brown; for this 2019 exhibition, she collaborated with Emeric Tchatchoua of the fashion label 3.Paradis on a series about dreams and remembrance.

The series was called “For Now We See Through A Glass Darkly,” which comes from 1 Corinthians 13:12 — a biblical banger about trying and failing to see what the future holds. Here, Lin looks back. The chair is a tufted comfort, evoking a weekend at Grandma’s. But it’s completely off-limits and forever out of reach.

Quick Hits

  • Satisfy’s first Paris store comes with a coffee shop across the street
  • Weird Al now has an asteroid named after him
  • The Sri Lankan architect in the spotlight at Vitra
  • Thom Browne made luxury headphones with Bose
  • Scientists found a ‘fire amoeba’ that thrives at 145°F

Community Question

Last week we asked, what did you love as a kid that still shapes your taste

Here's our favorite reply:
Mia Cosco said: “As a kid, I loved creating my time capsule: a box of my most prized toys. I was content to not play with them anymore, for some reason... maybe I just valued the concept of a time capsule so much that I was willing to part with the daily play of my favorites to preserve it for my future self, who was too busy on my iPhone. I still irrationally love the thrill of collecting little trinkets, they have no utility or productive use, and that's why I love them on my mantel.”

Now for next week:
What's your favorite second-hand find?

See you in Stars Hollow,

Tania