2019 Met Gala announcement
Last week Vogue and The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Serena Williams, Alessandro Michele (Gucci creative director) and Anna Wintour will co-chair The Met Gala 2019, which marks the event’s 71st anniversary. Formally, The Costume Institute Gala is a fundraising gala for Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. This year’s Gala theme will be “Camp: Notes on Fashion.” Costume Institute Curator Andrew Bolton is basing it around Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp.’”Bolton explains his reasoning for the theme in a Vogue article: “[Sontag says camp is] ‘love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration… style at the expense of content… the triumph of the epicene style’ — so timely with what we are going through culturally and politically that I felt it would have a lot of cultural resonance.”
“Saturday Night Live” season 44
Since its season 44 premiere on Sept. 29, Saturday Night Live has been killing it. Its most recent episode aired on Oct. 13 and featured former SNL “Weekend Update” host and head writer Seth Meyers. “SNL” continues to lead the airways with its live, topical sketch comedy. The show has already covered topics surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, the Trump presidency and Kanye West in its first few weeks.
Pumpkin carving + spooky playlist
We’re in the very midst of #spookyszn and loving it. The weather is finally starting to feel like fall, and we’re keeping ourselves busy with fall activities! Carving pumpkins is one of the best ways to get yourself in the Autumn mood. Put on “Hocus Pocus” or our spooky Spotify playlist (below) in the background, grab some Halloween candy and carve to your heart’s content. Use a stencil (if you’re a perfectionist) or carve freehand for a more ~interpretive~ look. Pro tip: Bake the pumpkin seeds for a delicious fall snack!
Listen to our spooky Spotify playlist below.
Stand-up comic and writer Jaboukie Young-White
Last week, Twitter personality, stand-up comic and TV writer Jaboukie Young-White was named the new correspondent of “The Daily Show.” In addition to writing for Netflix shows “Big Mouth,” and “American Vandal,” Young-White performs stand-up at college campuses across the country. Known for his #relatable millennial humor, Young-White performed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” again earlier this month (his first time on the show last December, he came out to his parents on national TV). Follow him @jaboukie and see what all the hype is about for this “short king.”
Watch Young-White’s Oct. 12 debut on the “The Daily Show” below.
