USA Today - 26.08.2019

Chris Pineis 39. Macaulay Culkinis

39. Melissa McCarthyis 49.

IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY
WHO’S CELEBRATING TODAY

USA TODAY z MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019z SECTION D

Fresh brewed fungi

Mushroom coffee trend takes off. 2D

‘Aladdin’ theory confirmed

Disney unveils surprise ending. 3D

‘Angel Has Fallen’ tops box office

Franchise has quietly performed well. 4D

IN LIFE

SANDY HOOPER

LIFELINE

1.Minecraft, Mojang

2.Heads Up!, Warner Bros.

3.Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi

4.Plague Inc., Ndemic Creations

5.iSchedule, HotSchedules

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Top paid iPhone apps

USA TODAY SNAPSHOTS ©

The ladies of Sugarbaker & Asso-

ciates are in.

Besides all the new TV that Netflix,

Amazon and Hulu bring to the world,

one of the biggest advantages of

streaming is the ability to rediscover

classic shows and introduce them to a

new audience. And kids today could

use a good, old-fashioned Julia Sugar-

baker takedown.

The entire seven-season catalogof

“Designing Women” is now streaming

on Hulu, and it’s good news for every-

one, except people who want to leave

their houses in the next week. And

while “Designing” has been available

on DVD and in syndication since it

signed off, this marks the first time the

full sitcom is available to stream.

The series, created by Linda Blood-

worth-Thomason, aired on CBS from

1986-1993, and followed four women

(and eventually, a man) who run an in-

teriordesign firm in Atlanta. It offered

episodes about AIDS, sexism, Anita

Hill, race, relationships, big hair and

more, while making viewers laugh.

In honor of Julia (Dixie Carter), Su-

zanne (Delta Burke), Mary Jo (Annie

Potts) and Charlene’s (Jean Smart) re-

turn, we picked our five favorite epi-

sodes from the series that you may

want to queue up first.

Season 1, Episode 2: “The Beauty

Contest”

Not every sitcom is fully realized by

its second episode, but the “Design-

ing” writers knew the power of Julia

Sugarbaker from the beginning. The

central plot of this episode follows Ma-

ry Jo’s daughter as she enters a beauty

pageant, but the crux of the story is

when Julia dresses down a beauty

queen, who trash-talks Suzanne, with

her iconic “the night the lights went

out in Georgia” speech. Julia’s fiery

rage would become one of the most

beloved aspects of the sitcom.

Season 2, Episode 4: “Killing All

the Right People”

“Designing” aired during the height

of the AIDS crisis, and found a way to

address the disease long before other

series and many politicians did. “Kill-

ing” is a “very special episode” that is

very special: The firm is hired by a

young gay man (played by Tony Gold-

wyn), dying of AIDS, to help design his

own funeral. The episode packs in ear-

nest and factual information about the

epidemic without becoming a lesson.

The most chilling moment – from

which the episode draws its title – oc-

curs when another Sugarbaker client,

upset that the firm is working with a

gay man, says that AIDS is “killing all

STREAMING

‘Women’

ideally

designed

for a binge

Kelly Lawler

USA TODAY

See DESIGNING, Page 3D

Annie Potts, left, Dixie Carter, Jean

Smart and Delta Burke starred in the

CBS comedy.CBS

CHICAGO – The last time my son

and I roamed this sparkling lake-

front city together, he was wearing a

Minnesota Vikings Santa hat and

matching pajama pants and getting

heckled at Soldier Field.

It was a surprise trip to celebrate

his 11th birthday, tickets to a Chicago

Bears-Vikings showdown as the

main attraction. (The Vikings lost.)

Fast forward nearly nine years.

We reprised the mother-son adven-

ture a few weeks before he starts

back to college in Arizona and three

months after I moved here as an

empty nester.

Jack and I traversed the city for

four days, logging nearly 40 miles on

foot and bike. It was more about

spending time together outside –

something not possible in Phoenix

in the summer – than it was about

checking off every tourist attraction

and deep-dish pizza place. We’d al-

ready hit most of the latter on a fam-

ily fall break trip when he was in

grade school.

It started with decadent cheese-

burgers on the patio at Small Cheval

in Old Town, an offshoot of the hard-

to-get-into Au Cheval, and ended

with a toast at the lake before his

flight.

The highlights:

Biking the lakefront

Unless it’s Polar Vortex season,

no trip to Chicago is complete with-

out a bike ride, run or stroll along

Lake Michigan.

TRAVEL

USA TODAY travel reporter Dawn Gilbertson and her son, Jack, go

kayaking on the Chicago River.PHOTOS BY DAWN GILBERTSON/USA TODAY

Indulge in

urban thrills

in Chicago

Dawn Gilbertson

USA TODAY

Sunset on Oak Street Beach is picture-perfect.

See CHICAGO, Page 3D

Prince William and Duchess Kate, along
with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles
and Duchess Camilla, made a public
appearance Sunday on the way to
church in Scotland. The five were pho-
tographed in two cars on the way to
Crathie Kirk Church, where the royal
family worships while in residence at
Balmoral Castle. Kate was photo-
graphed sitting in the back seat be-
hind William and next to the queen,
who wore a hot-pink ensemble. The
duchess chose a dark overcoat with a
matching Lock & Co. Hatters hat and
Asprey earrings. Prince Charles drove
wife Camilla in a separate car.

DUNCAN MCGLYNN/GETTY IMAGES

ROYALS REPORT
FAMILY WORSHIP
IN SCOTLAND

“The Bachelorette” star who ap-
peared on Nick Viall’s season of
“The Bachelor” before starring on the
13th season of “The Bachelorette” as
the franchise’s first black lead, is offi-
cially married to former contestant
Bryan Abasolo. The couple had been
sharing wedding updates on social
media leading up to the big day, and
People confirmed the ceremony took
place Saturday in Mexico. Abasolo
proposed to Lindsay in Spain during
the finale of “The Bachelorette” just
more than two years ago, to the dis-
may of fans who rooted for runner-up
Peter Kraus. Shortly before the finale
aired, Lindsay told USA TODAY during
a news conference call that she was
“very much so in love and very much
so engaged,” adding that if she “had
a list, he would check everything off.”

GETTY IMAGES

HOW WAS YOUR DAY?
RACHEL LINDSAY