<div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-dgbcqk e1wiw3jv0">Times editors have handpicked 11 stories for you to enjoy. Welcome to The Weekender.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-mqw7kw e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Pablo Delcan</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/business/barbie-movie-mattel-windfall.html" title="">Mattel’s Windfall From ‘Barbie’</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The company’s approach has paid off to a degree that even the C.E.O. could hardly have believed possible.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span aria-hidden="false" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">“The Love Album: Off the Grid,” Sean Combs’s first solo studio album in 17 years, came out Friday.</span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Erik Carter for The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/arts/music/sean-combs-diddy-the-love-album.html" title="">Sean Combs Doesn’t Need to Ask Anyone for Anything</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The music mogul, 53, has a new album, a new (psychedelics-fueled) self-image and a fresh sense of purpose.</p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Xinmei Liu</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/business/china-fashion-proposal-hurt-feelings.html" title="">China May Ban Clothes That Hurt People’s Feelings</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">A proposal evokes memories of 1980s China, when opening up to the world set off a debate over what the government called “weird attire.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Lauren Jackson/The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/travel/mongolia-millennials-road-trip.html" title="">Why Are So Many Millennials Going to Mongolia?</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In an era of Instagram tourism, some young people are searching for less curated travel experiences.</p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller; Photo reference by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/books/review/elon-musk-walter-isaacson.html" title="">Elon Musk Wants to Save Humanity. The Only Problem: People.</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Carolyn Fong for The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/dining/michelin-star-restaurants-america.html" title="">Michelin’s Coveted Stars Can Come With Some Costs</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">As Michelin’s universe of dining guides expands to new places, some chefs fear the honors are fostering a world of restaurant clones.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Kent Nishimura for The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/style/competitive-boat-docking-md-va.html" title="">Welcome to the World of Competitive Boat Docking</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It’s a circuit that only exists on the Maryland and Virginia shores. And the watermen who compete sort of like it that way.</p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Carbrook Golf Club</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/science/sharks-golf-course-australia.html" title="">Sharks on a Golf Course Made a Watery Grave Unlike Any Other</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">A group of bull sharks spent 17 years in a lake by a golf course’s 14th hole, suggesting that the predators can live in low-saltwater environments indefinitely.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/style/anna-delvey-nyfw-fashion-show.html" title="">A Fashion Show at Anna Delvey’s House?</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Shao took a novel approach to attracting an audience for its debut.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p></div>

<div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper"><div data-testid="photoviewer-children" class="css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5"><figure class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0"><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Mike Blake/Reuters</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/marilyn-monroe-house-saved-los-angeles.html" title="">The Battle to Save Marilyn Monroe’s Last Home</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Lawmakers and activists in Los Angeles are trying to stop the demolition of the Spanish colonial-style home where the actor spent her final years.</p></div>

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<div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/style/co-workers-texting-work.html" title="">Should We Really Be Texting for Work?</a></h2><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Work has already invaded our homes, evenings and weekends. Now it’s coming for the fun part of your phone.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">_____</em></p><p class="css-dgbcqk e1wiw3jv0">Thanks for reading. I’ll see you next weekend.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">This edition of The Weekender was edited by </em><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jonathan-wolfe" title=""><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">Jonathan Wolfe</em></a><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">.</em></p></div>

How Mattel made “Barbie” a cinematic hit. Also: an interview with Sean Combs, and sharks living on a golf course.{ai:summary}<p>#culture - Times editors have handpicked 11 stories for you to enjoy. Welcome to The Weekender.
  
#culture - Mattel’s approach to Barbie pays off, shocking even the CEO.   
  
#music - Sean Combs releases first solo album in 17 years with renewed purpose.   
  
#society - China considers banning clothes that hurt people's feelings, sparking debate.   
  
#travel - Instagram tourism prompts millennials to seek less curated experiences, such as visiting Mongolia.  
  
#technology - Elon Musk's grand ambitions to save humanity face the obstacle of dealing with people.   
  
#food - As Michelin expands, chefs fear the honors are promoting a world of identical restaurants.  
  
#sports - Competitive boat docking exists as a unique circuit on the Maryland and Virginia shores.  
  
#outdoors - Sharks living in a golf course lake challenge conventional wisdom about their habitats.   
  
#culture - Shao uses a novel approach to attract an audience for its fashion debut.   
  
#history - Efforts to save Marilyn Monroe's last home in LA face opposition.  
  
#technology - The invasion of work into personal lives reaches the fun part of the phone as people are expected to text for work.</p>

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