11 reality shows to stream when you re done with Bling Empire
Bethonie Butler, The Washington Post
Jan. 28, 2021
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Anna Shay, left, and Christine Chiu on Bling Empire. Netflix
Netflix s Bling Empire, which follows an impossibly wealthy group of Asians and Asian Americans living it up in Los Angeles, has become the latest reality TV sensation. It s a glitzy and extravagant universe where drama can erupt over everything from a love triangleto a calculated place setting, making it easy to burn through those 10 episodes quickly.
We ve got you covered, though, with a curated list of recommendations for your next reality TV obsession.
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âDid you know my Shanna is making straight Aâs again this year? And that she made captain of the cross-country team and the speech team? Sheâs my pride and joy.â
Growing up, my mother never missed an opportunity to brag about my accomplishments to relatives, coworkers, and grocery store clerks. My accomplishments were her accomplishments. She would preen herself on my achievements while I stood by feeling like a show pony.
Sometimes, I let her boasting feed my ego. Other times, I felt awkward and ashamed. âIs this all I am to her?â Iâd wonder to myself.
BY JULIA BARAJAS Los Angeles Times
January 21, 2021
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Like most of us, Amanda Gorman has been cooped up in her West Los Angeles apartment binge-watching “The Great British Baking Show” because of the pandemic. Unlike most of us, she got some very exciting news recently via Zoom: She’d been handpicked to read a poem at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The incoming first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, was a fan of her work, and convinced the inaugural committee Gorman would be a perfect fit.
Gorman, all of 22, became the youth poet laureate of Los Angeles at age 16 in 2014 and the first national youth poet laureate three years later. On Wednesday, she became the youngest poet to recite her work at a presidential inauguration, following in the considerably more experienced footsteps of Maya Angelou and Robert Frost.
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I learned to cook without much in the way of small appliances we had an electric skillet that my parents got as a wedding present, which was used for (a) pot roast and (b) white beans with ham, and a hand mixer that we replaced with a new cheap one each time we burned it out making divinity candy. We had a hand-cranked meat grinder, which was fun to use.