Tinashe Is Working on One Masterpiece at a Time

It’s a sweltering June evening, and a gaggle of creatively hopeless adults have assembled to guzzle cheap wine and botch landscape paintings at Paint ’N Pour, which proudly urges patrons to “Paint like Picasso. Drink like Van Gogh.” Usually, the Lower East Side establishment serves as a no-judgment oasis for fine-art amateurs who’ve long accepted their talents lie elsewhere. But tonight, there’s an exception: Tinashe, the infuriatingly competent 31-year-old singer (plus producer, writer, actress, and Tae Kwon Do black belt) with the song of the summer and the drive to put everyone else to shame. Paintbrush pinned between her manicured fingers, she drops her gold “I LOVE MEN” handbag to the floor. “I’ve got big perfectionist tendencies,” she notifies me. “I’m going to be the best.”

More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, the Associated Press found. Also, the White House is looking to make it easier to get out of unwanted subscriptions and memberships. India’s largest low-cost airline is giving female fliers the option not to sit next to male strangers. And a large new study suggests that the “orgasm gap” persists — and does not improve for women with age.

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