Culture update: June 4

Hey friends! It’s been awhile . . . but never fear, your trusty culture update is here! (A little late, however. My apologies!)

Top Movies this week:

1. Shrek Forever After, $55.7 mil
2. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, $37.8 mil (according to the senior girls I was on vacation with last week, this was unexpectedly good, which was not what I expected to hear from them)
3. Sex and the City 2, $37.1 mil
4. Iron Man 2, $20.6 mil
5. Robin Hood, $13.6 mil
6. Letters to Juliet, $7.3 mil (great girls’ night out movie)
7. Just Wright, $2.7 mil
8. Date Night, $2.3 mil
9. MacGruber, $1.9 mil (Why couldn’t they have chosen a different, less-stupid SNL skit to make a full-length movie out of? I won’t be seeing this one.)
10. How to Train Your Dragon, $1.5 mil

Top songs on the radio

1. Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart
2. Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug
3. B.o.B. - Nothin' On You
4. Usher - OMG
5. Lady Gaga - Alejandro
6. B.o.B. - Airplanes
7. Train - Hey, Soul Sister (I am a fan of this song. It's infectious, in a good way!)
8. Rihanna - Rude Boy
9. Jason DeRulo - In My Head
10. Katy Perry - California Gurls (Dumbest. Song. Ever. —or at least in the runnings for that title)

Summer!

Personally, I’m excited because my favorite show has started, “So You Think You Can Dance.” That means summer is officially here! Speaking of summer, I just got back from a week at the beach. And do you know what I saw a lot of? Surfer shirts. Instead of wearing a skimpy top, girls and women were wearing the form-fitting, short-sleeved shirts that surfers wear. I’m sure it was an effort to avoid sunburn, but it’s also an easy (and breathable) way to cover up at the beach (which my back would have appreciated!). My roommate and I were discussing the trend, and she remarked that it’s as if bathing suits are coming full circle to the ones worn at the turn of the century. For some folks, the dangers of the sun are prompting a return to modesty. (And swimsuits as cute as these and these don’t hurt either.) Since summer is upon us, and you’ll likely be taking your girls somewhere this summer that involves bathing suits and all the issues that go along with them, take our poll to let us know how you cope.