Piper Grant

Founded in 1948 by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert, in an effort to raise funds and bring awareness to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, the Met Gala has become one of the most widely recognised evenings in fashion. Originally, tickets were priced at $50 for a midnight dinner and a night of dress-up (which is approximately $624 in 2026). Tomorrow, at the 2026 Met Gala, individuals will pay upwards of $100,000 to have a seat at a table - a significant increase from the...

My boyfriend approached me this evening, asking me if we could use my Netflix login to watch the 2025 film, Train Dreams. After much deliberation and reluctance (I had my hopes set on watching Sex and the City , a comfort show), I yielded, and for two hours, we were both encapsulated by the beauty, grief, and a strikingly human portrayal of life. Train Dreams , directed by Clint Bentley and based on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson, has received a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 4/5 on...

Two weeks ago, actor Timothée Chalamet sat down with Matthew McConaughey for a conversation facilitated by CNN Town Hall and Variety, and a 16-second portion from that full video was clipped, went viral, and began to catapult Chalamet's acting career towards cancellation. In the video, Chalamet critically remarks on opera and ballet, saying, "I don't want to be working in ballet or opera, or you know, things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive,' even though it's like, no one cares...