Things to do for August 31, 2016

Your Holiday-Weekend Inspiration Is Here

There’s S’mores Tips from a Master Chocolatier, and Beautiful Burning Man Art, And...

By Ilana Dadras

The weekend has loved Rihanna since it was 22.

FROM PERKS

If These Cufflinks Could Talk

A list of major events for which these vintage cufflinks have been around:

—The invention of antibiotics.
—WWII.
—Lunar landing.
—Fall of the Berlin Wall.
—Being fortunate enough to keep your dress shirt cuffs together.

Yeah, they’ve seen it all.

THE UD FIVE

Your Weekend Calls for Equal Parts Fassbender, Wu-Tang and Interpol

What happens when RZA and Paul Banks team up on an album? Is this new Michael Fassbender film any good? Why is everyone so into Spike Jonze’s Kenzo perfume ad? All questions you should look into on this long, glorious weekend.

FEEL THE BURN

Some Amazing Art from Burning Mans Past

There’s some wild stuff going on in the Nevada desert right about now. Fact. It’s stuff not unlike the roving flaming octopus, 40-foot-tall nude dancing woman and fake thunderstorm dome you’ll find in this slideshow of beautiful Burning Man installations.

SWEET DEAL

How a Master Chocolatier Thinks You Should Make S’mores

We recently exchanged words with a master chocolatier, whose life revolves around crafting inventive confections for Michelin-starred restaurants and sweet-toothed Londoners. In light of this holiday weekend, which we hope involves more time near fire pits than not, we asked him for his ultimate s’mores tips. Sea salt and peanut butter are involved, so...

GO DUTCH

Fancy Seeing You Again, Pulitzer Amsterdam

It’s been a handsome Dutch hotel around since 1960. Just, now that it’s basically a whole new place, you can stay in a music-themed suite with trumpets lining the walls, and in your gin and tonic, the gin will be carbonated, too. So it’s better, you see.

DOUGH AND BEHOLD

Hello, Autumn. Hello, Enormous Drum Full of Pasta.

At first glance, it’s a drum made of pasta. At second glance, it’s a drum made of pasta, containing sausage, meatballs, mortadella, macaroni, mozzarella and other enticing ingredients you’d find in a Sicilian grandmother’s kitchen. Confirmed: you’ll want to know more about what these glances are telling you.

FIVE EASY PIECES

Meet This Week’s Top Five Style Picks

Each week, we call on UrbanDaddy editors to share their top five latest and handsomest style picks. It’s so that you might pick them, too. This week, we’re into upgrading our basic tees and dress shirts, and we’re starting to stock up on fall essentials. That’s right, it’s time.