Tre Miller Rodriguez's Blog, page 30
March 8, 2018
When your birthday includes chemistry-set cocktails, bergamot...
When your birthday includes chemistry-set cocktails, bergamot foam, and everything-bagel-scented-whiskey with neon views of New York, it’s tough to compose a humble brag. Thank you, Jorge, for ever-surprising me and my palate…it’s such a joy to experience the world with you.
(at The Aviary NYC)
February 27, 2018
A ballet of balloons. (David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center)
A ballet of balloons. (David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center)
A ballet of balloons. #latergram (at David H Koch Theater at...
A ballet of balloons. #latergram (at David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center)
February 8, 2018
Now Serving: Grief Relief
Despite catching my third chest cold in as many months, I haz the happy feelings today. It’s not just the DayQuil—it’s the words and imagery in a book from my Modern Loss editors Rebecca Soffer and Gabi Birkner. Their realtalk essays about grief—both were orphaned in their 20′s—paired with wry illustrations from Peter Arkle just hit the reset button on bereavement books. Even my most-shared Modern Loss essay on how to scatter ashes has been reimagined as, yes, a comic strip.
Straight-up honored to be included in a book containing so many talented female voices (Robyn Woodman, Emily Black, Nora McIrney, Rachel Sklar, Spencer Merolla). If their words can displace my cold symptoms, I can only imagine the perspective and comfort they’re giving to readers in the early stages of grief.
February 7, 2018
Happy born day, Jorge! The world is better, luckier, and more...
Happy born day, Jorge! The world is better, luckier, and more extraordinary because you’re in it. (at SUGARCANE raw bar grill)
February 4, 2018
If you live in NYC and are ambivalent about this year’s Super...
If you live in NYC and are ambivalent about this year’s Super Bowl—Justin-not-Janet, hologram Prince, Colin, Goodell—stop by Galerie Lelong in Chelsea today. Its current exhibition, “Sidelined,” features artists responding to injustices experienced by POC both on and off the sports field. Inspired by #TakeAKnee, “Sidelined” wrestles with systems of power that can devalue the lives of minorities in America. (Galerie Lelong & Co., NYC)
January 28, 2018
(Dance) Night at the Museum to the beats of Toro y Moi. ...
(Dance) Night at the Museum to the beats of Toro y Moi. (American Museum of Natural History, NYC)
(Dance) Night at the Museum to the beats of Toro y Moi. (at...
(Dance) Night at the Museum to the beats of Toro y Moi. (at American Museum of Natural History)
January 24, 2018
7 Innovations to Make Funeral Planning Suck Less
By Tré Miller Rodriguez for Modern Loss
Unless Funeral Director is your career choice, it isn’t an area where anyone wants to gain expertise. Yet like many of you, my skillset includes funeral planning: I’ve planned a funeral for my teenage brother; for several friends and relatives; and for my 40-year-old husband. My only qualifications at 19 for organizing my brother’s funeral were that I’d recently worked for a florist and I’d once gone to a concert with a dude whose family owned the local funeral home.
By the time I planned my husband’s service 15 years later, I had experience in creating worthy send-offs. And since his 2009 death, I’ve encountered companies with niche alternatives to the tired or tacky products pushed by funeral homes. I now save a list of these resources because when you’re living through the worst week of your life, who has the bandwidth to explore Pinterest-level designs for funeral programs? Or compare environmentally conscious options for cremation?
While the innovations below won’t put the “fun” into “funeral”—um, nothing will—they can help us personalize the last party we’ll ever throw for our loved one (or ourselves).
Sleep with the fishes. Through Eternal Reefs, you can actually create a marine habitat from cremains. Family and friends are invited to mix ashes into the concrete of the reef structure and personalize it with handprints or messages written in the wet concrete. This option includes an inscribed bronze plaque, a dedication ceremony at sea, and, ostensibly, a bunch of grateful fish.January 20, 2018
Marching for inclusion, equality, and democracy today with my...
Marching for inclusion, equality, and democracy today with my fellow nasty women. (New York City, New York)
