Welcome to the first Fugs & Pieces of 2026! Hope your first “real” week of the year treated you right. Ours had a strange end, as you may have noticed the site has been up and down all day. Ideally it’s just throwing a pre-Globes tantrum and will be back in working order shortly, if it’s not already.
We’re really back into the swing of things around these parts; if you missed any of our coverage of the Critics Choice Awards, you can catch up with all of that here! The Golden Globes are coming up THIS Sunday, so Monday here will be really busy. We’re also hosting our first live chat of the year at Drinks With Broads, and it’s going to be super fun — this is a perk for paid subscribers, so if you’ve been thinking about joining us, now really is the time!
Also at Drinks With Broads this week: We’re recapping Heated Rivalry! The first recap is right here. We also watched the Critics Choice Awards so you don’t have to, and… there might be a Bennifer 3.0? Plus, Este Haim’s wedding, Venus Williams’s wedding, and Heather takes on the first slate of Oscar films. And, last but now least – your recap of this season of Emily in Paris.
Also here at GFY, we talked about cute activewear! And we covered everyone’s favorite cleaning supplies! (Talk about two chats with New Year energy.)
Congrats to our friends at Lainey Gossip for their site redesign! It looks great. This is a good piece about the new Jen Garner interview in Elle UK.
This seems relevant to our interests: Travelling Modern Europe with a Victorian Railway Guidebook
Fun: The Font Detectives. You know how we feel about fonts!
This is a great discussion at Ask a Manager about keeping email under control. I used to be extremely Inbox Zero but around…2022? For no real reason? I just didn’t do it anymore and now I have a truly psychotic number of unread emails. I’m talking like five figures worth. (I get a lot of random email, a lot of these are like THIS FANCY HOTEL IS HAVING A SALE.)
Speaking of fancy hotels, this is a fun piece about Chateau Marmont (and includes pics of Jacob Elordi’s VERY cute dog).
PSA: If you’ve been looking for a Dyson Airwrap, it’s marked way down at QVC but today only — January 9. I love mine. (Heather has been using the Shark version because it comes with a diffuser as well; it’s not on sale but usually costs less than the Dyson. Either way, the “price per use” logic is coming in very handy.)
PSA number 2: If you’re a fan of U Beauty, the brand is now available at Sephora! I really like their resurfacing serum, but I’m (of course) tempted by their neck cream. Nora Ephron was right about necks.
You probably need this: Meet the National Zoo’s Adorable 1-Month-Old Sloth Bear Cubs
Love this piece about becoming a regular at a restaurant. Can attest that being a regular somewhere is GREAT. You get to know the waitstaff, and it’s such a nice part of being part of a community.
If you’re watching the figure skating this weekend — or getting ready for the Olympics! — I must once again recommend The Nice Capades! The rhythm dance theme for ice dance this year is 90s music and IT IS SO FUN, you guys.
Useful: 5 Cheap Meals Bon Appetit Editors Make With Canned Tuna
The NYT is doing a five-day series about brain health that I bookmarked to come back to when I had some time to focus on it. [gifted link]
I love reading about celeb drama I didn’t even know was happening: ‘SNL’s’ Chris Redd Opens Up About the Situation with Kenan Thompsons’ Ex-Wife
Fun and useful at The Strategist: The Best in Class Hall of Fame: A collection of the very best things that we’ve named “Best in Class
Head’s up, from Salon: We’re living through the worst flu season in decades — and it hasn’t yet peaked. Get your flu shot if you haven’t done that yet!
This is a fun Reddit thread, in the /InstacartShoppers subreddit: Items you had no idea so many people bought
I’m really tempted by this bracelet.
This is interesting, at Evil Witches: What blew up your parent chat last year?
This entire thing makes me want to scream: Why Some Fans Think There’s One More Episode of Stranger Things. The proof that there is not one more episode is that ONE MORE EPISODE DOES NOT EXIST. GO OUTSIDE.
Cool: The Submarine Cable Boom as Told by a Decade of TeleGeography Maps
(Photo by Li Zhihua/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images. Like most websites, GFY uses affiliate links where available, and may benefit from brand partnerships. If you buy something using our links, we could earn a commission. Affiliate links help keep this website in business! Thank you for supporting us!)
