Lea Donenberg

The 79th Annual Tony Awards were a fitting coda to the 2025–26 Broadway season, offering all the requisite nostalgia, vocal prowess, ensemble energy, and a generous amount of pelvic thrusting. On the blue carpet, the fashion delighted and surprised. Cole Escola wore shocking-pink Christopher John Rogers, while Maya Rudolph—who recently made her Broadway debut, assuming the title role in Escola’s Oh, Mary!—arrived in Chanel.

If your TikTok feed has been covered in rainbow sprinkles—or your weekly grocery run to Butterfield Market has taken an extra hour (or two)—then you might be aware of the phenomenon that is The Dotcakes. These miniature dessert delights have taken the internet by storm. The viral “Dotcups” have struck a chord of sweet, sweet nostalgia: layers of fluffy cake and frosting in a palm-sized cup are topped with a flat layer of crunchy nonpareil sprinkles; and people have been eating it up.

No Sunday is scarier than the one involving heaps of dirty leggings, sports bras, and my boyfriend’s Bombas socks piling up on my hamper. It takes about five minutes of courage-mustering to crawl under my hydraulic lift storage bed to procure my laundry accoutrements and assortment of oversized tote bags. But the real chaos ensues once I take the elevator down to the laundry room; or as I call it, the Bubbly Battlefield.