Ash Croce

1 month ago | slate.com | Ash Croce

Drink Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On any given Tuesday night in 2014, you could find my friend Addie and me at the Half Door, an Irish pub in Hartford, Connecticut, filled with locals and our fellow college students. Tuesday was $2 pint night, so we drank pints of Guinness and Smithwick’s, danced to the Smiths cover band that was always playing (called the Miths), and took shots of Jameson.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ash Croce

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On any given Tuesday night in 2014, you could find my friend Addie and me at the Half Door, an Irish pub in Hartford, Connecticut, filled with locals and our fellow college students. Tuesday was $2 pint night, so we drank pints of Guinness and Smithwick’s, danced to the Smiths cover band that was always playing (called the Miths), and took shots of Jameson.

Jan 23, 2025 | workerorganizing.org | Ash Croce

Pamela Anderson sparkles in “The Last Showgirl.” Quite literally. Anderson plays Shelly, an aging showgirl who dons sparkly outfits in her job. In a scene where Shelly talks with her estranged daughter, played by Billie Lourd, the light catches glitter residue on her skin. Anyone who has worn glittery makeup can tell you how difficult it can be to get it off, and one can only imagine she never gets it all off.

Dec 12, 2024 | slate.com | Ash Croce

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Ugly Christmas sweaters: They’re gaudy, loud, and the chosen uniform of seasonal rom-com bachelors. Perhaps your dear great-aunt knitted one for you à la A Christmas Story,and although it’s not your style, it does have a certain je ne sais quoi that comes with the earnestness in production and then irony in wearing.

Dec 10, 2024 | vinepair.com | Ash Croce

December brings about reflection and deep consideration about what the past year was all about. Am I a better person now than I was in January? Where have I grown and where do I still need to go? Did I accomplish my resolutions and which ones should I set for next year? What was the name of that amazing beer I had that one time? We can’t help with the first few questions, but we are all over the last one.