Podcast: Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Hosted by Saira Rahman, HMBradley’s vice president of finance, and her friend Megan McShane, this podcast finds two very different millennials diving into the world of money in a way that actually makes saving and investing sound interesting. Whether you’re already a financial wiz like Rahman or you’re like McShane—without a savings account and no idea where the money goes each week—there’s something useful in every easy-to-digest, 15-minute episode. Girlsjustwannahavefunds.com. –Leslie Ventura

TV: The Lady and the Dale

At the height of the 1970s oil crisis, entrepreneur G. Elizabeth Carmichael promised to deliver a low-cost, 70 MPG car called the Dale. Unfortunately, the car was a sham, and Carmichael a longtime con artist. But more remarkably, Carmichael was born a man who transitioned in the late 1960s. Nick Cammilleri and Zackary Drucker’s four-part documentary considers the intersection of fraud, gender identity and, unexpectedly, journalistic ethics; a key figure in the story is muckraker Dick Carlson, Tucker Carlson’s father. HBO, HBO Max. –Geoff Carter

Show: The Doo Wop Kings at The Vegas Room

Michael Washington, Bryin Woods, Josh Smith and David Villella formed old-school a capella outfit The Doo Wop Kings while singing together in the seminal Strip production Vegas! The Show at the Saxe Theater, the busy venue at the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood. With Vegas! still plotting its return to the stage, the Kings are taking their smooth harmonies to the Vegas Room for a weekend set that should shine a deserving new spotlight on their talents and nostalgic vibes. February 25-27, 8 p.m. $85 (includes dinner), thevegasroom.com. –Brock Radke

TV: Call My Agent!

If you’ve binged The Office for the 10th time and are ready for another workplace comedy to break up the WFH monotony, queue up this French gem maintenant! The show follows the hijinks at a talent agency, where the agents jockey for position among themselves while bending over backward for the actors they represent. The show’s brilliant conceit is casting French cinema’s biggest stars—from Juliette Binoche to Isabelle Huppert to Charlotte Gainsbourg—but even with that star wattage, it’s the core cast that shines. The fourth and final season just dropped. Savor each episode like a delicious éclair. Netflix. –Genevie Durano

Book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

Whether you want to believe it or not, climate change is a looming threat. But the problem seems as untouchable as it is terrifying. Is there anything we can do to help? In How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, Bill Gates answers in the affirmative. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist shares insights from his decade-long investigation into the global calamity. He explains the need to achieve net-zero emissions and explores the technology that will help us get there. Gates ultimately offers a practical solution to climate change, along with optimism that it’s actually achievable. –C. Moon Reed

Music: Virginia Wing: Private Life

In the tradition of Jethro Tull, Luscious Jackson and Franz Ferdinand, Virginia Wing is a band named for a real person unaffiliated with that band—in this case the mother of Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick. The name of Virginia Wing’s frontwoman is actually Alice Merida Richards, and on the London trio’s fourth LP, she and her mates surge to someplace new. Where previous records evoked the bubbly electronic-pop of Broadcast and Dots and Loops Stereolab, Private Life fidgets more like Laurel Halo or Julia Holter, which is to say its instrumental maelstrom—swirling around energetic lyrics like “Are you still awake?/I’ve got more to say/I’ve got issues to address/And habits to change”—compels listeners to dig ever deeper into its otherworldliness. Slick move, Virginia. –Spencer Patterson