Culture

Bad Bunny Wore Prosthetics to the Met Gala as a Tribute to Johnny Pacheco

The aged-Bad-Bunny look wasn't a stunt. It was a Costume Institute argument about who gets archived as cultural history — and whether Latin music gets to be one of those archives.

Technology

Bret Taylor's Sierra Raises $950M at $15.8B Valuation as ARR Hits $150M

Sierra is now valued at $15.8B and has more than $1B in cash. The interesting number isn't the valuation — it's the ARR curve from $100M to $150M in three months.

Sports

Thunder Beat Lakers 108-90 in Game 1 as Chet Holmgren Posts 24-12-3

OKC took Game 1 from a Luka-less Lakers team behind Holmgren's 24-12-3 and 13 made threes — and they did it without Jalen Williams. The depth bill is coming due for Los Angeles.

Sneakers

Beams Plus x Sperry MIL-CVO Drops May 5 Using Original 1940s US Navy Tooling

A Japanese taste-maker, an American boat-shoe brand, and a wartime US rubber company's actual factory tooling — the May 5 drop is what serious heritage collaboration looks like.

Daily Roundup

The Daily Roundup: Sneaker News x BAPE STA "Day & Night," Knicks-76ers Game 2, and Cerebras' $26.6B IPO Filing — May 6, 2026

Sneaker News drops its first-ever collaboration — a BAPE STA 'Day & Night' NYC pack in two tight editions (1,386 'Day,' 556 'Night') hitting StockX today at $349. Cerebras files for a $26.6B Nasdaq IPO the same week Knicks-76ers Game 2 tips at MSG.

Culture

2026 Met Gala Raises Record $42M as Beyoncé Returns After Decade

The 2026 Met Gala raised a record $42 million, brought Beyoncé back to the steps after a decade away, and turned "Fashion Is Art" from a thesis into a runway. The night belonged to the people who treated couture as construction, not costume.

Daily Roundup

The Daily Roundup: Patta x Nike Mercurial Vapor 16 "Waves," Lakers-Thunder Game 1, Met Gala "Fashion Is Art," and Sierra's $950M AI Round - May 5, 2026

Patta's Mercurial Vapor 16 Waves ($320) is the most considered cleat of the World Cup cycle. Luka and Jalen Williams both sit out Game 1, Beyoncé returns to the Met carpet, and Sierra closes $950M to lead enterprise AI.

Music

Drake Announces ICEMAN for May 15 With a 25-Foot Ice Sculpture in Downtown Toronto

Drake's ICEMAN drops May 15. The 25-foot ice sculpture in downtown Toronto, the magazine clue, the fans hacking it open with pickaxes, and the police seal-off all happened first — and built a marketing campaign that other brands are now copying.

Culture

The 2026 Met Gala Is Tonight, Beyoncé Co-Chairs After a Decade Away

Beyoncé returns to the Met Gala tonight after a 10-year absence, co-chairing under the "Fashion Is Art" theme. The Saint Laurent breadcrumbs on her Instagram are not subtle.

Culture

The Ankler: "Scale Is Losing Leverage" in the 2026 creator economy

The Ankler surveyed a dozen creator-economy power brokers — agency execs, platform leads, talent managers — and the consensus is that 2026 is the year follower count stops mattering. What replaces it is messier and more valuable.

Culture

Björk premieres Echolalia at the National Gallery of Iceland

Björk's first new album in four years won't drop on Spotify on a Friday. It will premiere as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland — a 30-speaker requiem, a film shot at an erupting volcano, and a thesis statement about what music releases can be.

Music

Isaiah Rashad releases IT'S BEEN AWFUL after five years

The third Isaiah Rashad album arrives five years after The House Is Burning — sober, introspective, and built around the kind of personal accounting most rappers his age aren't willing to do in public. The wait was the work.