Colette Shade

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Colette Shade

Hellmann’s big Super Bowl ad this year stars Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal reunited at New York City’s iconic Katz’s Deli to re-enact their famous scene from the 1989 Nora Ephron romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally.” In case you somehow don’t know what I’m referring to, the scene involves Meg Ryan loudly faking an orgasm while eating a sandwich. “I’ll have what she’s having,” the older woman at the next table tells the waiter.

2 months ago | msnbc.com | Colette Shade

Hellmann’s big Super Bowl ad this year stars Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal reunited at New York City’s iconic Katz’s Deli to re-enact their famous scene from the 1989 Nora Ephron romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally.” In case you somehow don’t know what I’m referring to, the scene involves Meg Ryan loudly faking an orgasm while eating a sandwich. “I’ll have what she’s having,” the older woman at the next table tells the waiter.

Jan 8, 2025 | writersdigest.com | Colette Shade

I wanted to write Y2K as a “decades book,” like Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties or David Halberstam’s The Fifties. Except when I saw people talking about “the Y2K era” on social media, they were talking about both the late 90s and the early 2000s, and sometimes even the mid-2000s. (Things Writers Should Know.)I decided to do what historians call “periodization,” which just means coming up with a name for a time period and deciding exactly when you think it begins and ends.

Dec 31, 2024 | slate.com | Colette Shade

Skip to the content Offers Genuinely Solid Advice Life Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This passage has been excerpted from Y2K, Colette Shade’s debut collection of essays about pop culture and politics between the years 1997 and 2008. It’s out on January 7, 2025. You can find it on Bookshop, Amazon, or Audible.

Dec 15, 2024 | teenvogue.com | Colette Shade

I was in college when the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. But I couldn’t find a job that summer or the next one because the effects of the recession, which reverberated throughout the economy, lasted for years. Americans lost their homes and their jobs. Many communities never recovered. That crisis and the botched response by the Democratic Party are crucial to understanding what’s happening in US politics now. Stay up-to-date with the politics team.