Rima Parikh

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Saturday Night Live Recap: Jon Hamm Knows What To Do

1 week ago | vulture.com | Rima Parikh

Saturday Night Live Jon Hamm Season 50 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Saturday Night Live Jon Hamm Season 50 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Despite popular belief, you can have a strong jawline and still do comedy well, and the SNL writers and cast took advantage of that during Jon Hamm’s fourth hosting stint last night. The actor, known for Bridesmaids(and also Mad Men), first hosted in 2008 and twice in 2010.
Saturday Night Live Recap: Mikey Madison Puts in an Honest Effort

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Rima Parikh

Saturday Night Live Mikey Madison Season 50 Episode 15 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Anora star and Best Actress Oscar winner Mikey Madison’s Saturday Night Live hosting debut was an opportunity to introduce her to a wider audience and let her showcase her personality outside of Anora and her other, more dramatic roles. And it accomplished that. In a monologue that stitches together mini-bits, we watch a montage of her previous roles (including two separate girls on fire).
Monica Lewinsky Once Wrote a Poem About Pizza

1 month ago | grubstreet.com | Rima Parikh |Margalit Cutler

In the early 2000s, Monica Lewinsky retreated into private life — at least to the extent it was possible. In the decade-ish since re-entering the public eye, she’s been active as an anti-bullying advocate and public speaker as a means of exerting agency over the narrative that defined part of her life. Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky, her new podcast from Wondery Media, explores public shame, with early guests like Olivia Munn and her close friend of over two decades, Alan Cumming.
Saturday Night Live Recap: Shane Gillis Hosts an Episode for Dads

1 month ago | vulture.com | Rima Parikh

Saturday Night Live Shane Gillis Season 50 Episode 14 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** When I hear about comedian Shane Gillis, it’s like when someone talks to me about New England for too long: my eyes glaze over because that is not my business. That is white people’s business to sort out amongst yourselves. I entered this episode understanding that I am not Gillis’s target audience, and he doesn’t need me to be.
Saturday Night Live Recap: Shane Gillis Humors the Base

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Rima Parikh

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"Bite by Bite" Serves a Plateful of Memories

1 month ago | lakeminnetonkamag.com | Rima Parikh

Welcome contributor Rima Parikh, owner of Wayzata’s The Thinking Spot, which focuses on STEM-related books and games for curious minds of all ages. In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke associations and remembrances. It is a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations and marvelous curiosities from nature.
Author Torrey Peters Always Spatchcocks Her Chicken

2 months ago | grubstreet.com | Rima Parikh |Maanvi Kapur

For the last four years, writer Torrey Peters has been splitting her time between Colombia and New York City. The Detransition, Baby author gets her fill of the country’s abundance of fresh fruit; she often reads while working her way through a three-pound bag of tiny mangoes over the course of an hour. “They’re so small, and there’s so much work to get out what is basically a spoonful of incredibly good, sweet mango,” she says. But she misses Asian food when she’s away.
Justin Peck Approaches Cooking Like It’s Choreography

Jan 24, 2025 | grubstreet.com | Rima Parikh |Adam Mazur

Justin Peck, resident choreographer at the New York City Ballet, is probably on a Citibike right now. For months, he’s been splitting his days between rehearsals for Mystic Familiar, his new ballet production, and the Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club, which he’s co-choreographing with his wife, Patricia Delgado.
Saturday Night Live Recap: Martin Short Brings A Near-Dozen Plus Ones

Dec 22, 2024 | vulture.com | Rima Parikh

Saturday Night Live Martin Short Season 50 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Last night’s Christmas episode coincided with Martin Short’s entry into Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club. Short was briefly an Ebersol-era cast member, and the last time he hosted was in 2022 alongside comedy partner Steve Martin. When he and Martin hosted their Only Murders in the Building, costar Selena Gomez popped in for a cameo. Who’d we see this time? Selena Gomez again? Meryl Streep?
Aria Aber Soothes Her Hangover With Mexican Korean Soup

Dec 19, 2024 | grubstreet.com | Rima Parikh

Aber, who is figuring out new routines in her new Brooklyn neighborhood. Growing up, Aria Aber’s favorite thing to eat was her mom’s aushak, leek-filled Afghan dumplings. “But I only like it when my mom makes it, or my dad,” she says.