Spirit Airlines is dead, GameStop tried to buy eBay, and if you haven't planned Mother's Day, I got you

Spirit Airlines shut down over the weekend and took 17,000 jobs and your cheap flights with it, GameStop tried to buy a company four times its size and the CEO couldn't explain how on live TV, and Beyoncé showed up to the Met Gala in a literal diamond skeleton gown (go girl).

Let's get into it.

Spirit Airlines is gone, and your $49 flights were gone with it

After two bankruptcies and a failed last-minute bailout deal, Spirit Airlines shut down for good Saturday morning, and passengers found out the hard way: flights were abruptly canceled, trips imploded, and 17,000 employees lost their jobs overnight. More bad news: Spirit's famously cheap fares helped set a price floor across the industry, and with that gone, other airlines now have a little more wiggle room to raise prices. Budget competitors like JetBlue could pick up some of the displaced passengers, but they're dealing with some of the same headwinds, including fuel costs. So: gone, kind of missed, mostly for the fare competition.

I’m still reeling over the 2026 Met Gala

The theme was "Costume Art" and the dress code was "Fashion is Art," which in practice means: truly anything goes, and the stars took that personally. Beyoncé arrived in a diamond skeleton gown by Olivier Rousteing, embellishments running all the way down to her fingers, with Jay-Z and Blue Ivy in tow for Blue's first Met appearance (which should be treated as a national event). Venus Williams paid tribute to her own 2022 National Portrait Gallery portrait in a Swarovski crystal mesh gown, which is the most tennis-icon move imaginable. Nicole Kidman arrived in custom Chanel with her daughter Sunday Rose making her debut, Sabrina Carpenter did old Hollywood Dior, and Rihanna, Doja Cat, Zoë Kravitz, and Teyana Taylor all showed up and delivered. Full carpet coverage is on Vogue if you want to lose the next two hours of your day (you do).

GameStop tried to buy eBay for $56 billion and couldn't explain how, which I respect

In the most unhinged corporate story of the week: GameStop made an unsolicited bid to acquire eBay for $56 billion on Sunday. For context, GameStop is worth about $12 billion, meaning it tried to buy a company worth four times more than itself. CEO Ryan Cohen went on CNBC's Squawk Box to explain the plan, and when journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin pressed him on the roughly $16–20 billion funding gap between what GameStop has and what the deal would cost, Cohen responded by repeating "half cash, half stock" and telling viewers to check the website??? It got awkward. eBay's stock went up 5% after the offer. GameStop's went down 5%. Analysts say the deal almost certainly won't come together. Swing and a miss!

I wasn’t out of the office this weekend so much as locked into my secondary office (aka wedding planning panic in the living room). With one month-ish to go, we are in crunch time, and I spent that crunch time in full shrimp-mode, using my coffee table as my desk and trying to get an opinion on napkin colors out of my fiancé (he did not have one). If you have any month-leading-up-to tips, send them my way.

Just when I get used to summer dressing, SF weather enters its "is it 50 or 70 degrees today, who's to say" era. Not sure how I was in a sleeveless dress last week and a chunky sage turtleneck with wide-leg jeans this week, but here we are! Cozy on top, breezy on bottom, iced coffee in hand.

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 10. That is five days from today. If you have a plan, great, close this section. If you don't, this is your 15-minute intervention.

The move is not to overspend on something forgettable. It's to make whatever you do feel like you actually thought about it, which requires approximately one decision made in advance rather than on Sunday morning in a spiral.

A few ideas (mom, if you’re reading this, stop):

Book something she'd never schedule for herself. A massage, a solo lunch at a place she likes, a blowout. Make it a specific appointment or reservation (not a giftcard) and put it directly in her calendar. The effort of picking the thing is the gift.

If you're doing a meal, make the res today. Restaurants hold back spots and release them mid-week. Check Resy and OpenTable Thursday or Friday. Sunday morning you will find nothing and you will deserve it.

No matter what, get specific: in whatever card, text, or voicemail you send, name one thing she did that you still think about. Not "you're the best." Something real. That part costs nothing and it's the only part she'll remember.

Thanks for reading!