Do Something Good
Sports aren’t inherently philanthropic, so it makes me really happy when I see them doing so. One of my favorite examples came this past week. The Pittsburgh Penguins were playing the San Jose Sharks for the NHL Stanley Cup. Finals games like these have often caused friendly bets between cities where the mayor agrees to do something like wear the jersey of the opposing team, if they lose.
This year however, the Carnegie Museum of Art took it a step further and asked the San Jose Museum of Art to participate in a friendly wager where the loser would relinquish a peace of art (plus there was some amazing highbrow trash talk). Even better, the mayors of each city had a multilevel wager going, where one major part of it was the losing mayor would not only have to make a donation to the winning mayor’s charity of choice, but they would also have to donate a captain’s jersey to charity as well.
Isn’t it great that these cities are finding new ways to find the philanthropic side of major events?
On Something Good
- Everyone’s favorite blooper posts are back!
- I’m all about that blush
- Healthy ice cream? Yup, it’s real.
- There may have been a little more shopping in my life…
Around the Internet
- Now that I have these flats, I’m obsessed.
- Do I need this Everlane skirt? Yes.
- I know this article was about Princess Charlotte, but can we talk about the Queen’s neon suit?
- I kind of love this chambray tank.
- So Nashville wasn’t actually cancelled….I actually don’t know how I feel about it. It was a guilty pleasure show, but I feel like it’s gone downhill.
- I can’t get over how adorable this romper is.
- I need one of these posters!
If you were looking at my tweets from Sunday night, you probably saw that I was basically crying tears of joy during the Tony Awards. I was so happy to see that the show took a moment this year to commemorate those who lost their lives in Orlando and show that they are truly the most diverse awards show. Also, I love the fact that it’s not about the individuals but actually about the community as a whole. People actually looked overjoyed and cheered loudly when they lost an award to their peers. One of my favorite moments of the show was the beautiful acceptance speech that Lin-Manuel Miranda won for best book of a show:
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