Zaz’s Bucket List, The WaPo Masterplan, Kings of Leonsis

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dispatch featuring Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Tara Palmeri’s evocative chronicle of Ron DeSantis’s post-’24-campaign revival: the recent Shell Bay Club Trump détente, his bid for a primetime convention speaking slot, and his high-risk strategy to ban abortion in Florida while eyeing ’28.

Plus, below the fold: Lauren Sherman spotlights the downsizing of Bernard Arnault’s mythmaker. John Ourand goes one-on-one with D.C. sports magnate Ted Leonsis. On Fashion People, Lauren and legendary Vogue journalist Plum Sykes consider the evolution of the Met Gala, Cotswolds fashion, McQueen’s legacy, and much more. And on The Powers That Be, Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to examine Will Lewis’s plan to revitalize The Washington Post and the precarious relationship between Warner Bros. Discovery and the NBA.

TARA PALMERI

After the Shell Bay Club détente, Ronny is out there shilling for his old nemesis, Trump is dangling convention spots, and the DeSantis brain trust is eyeing a path to ’28.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Notes on the downsizing of Arnault’s mythmaker and billion-dollar disrupter Michael Burke. Plus: Ralph’s Rider returns to the LVMH stable.

JOHN OURAND

As team valuations skyrocket, I sat down with D.C. sports magnate Ted Leonsis to get his candid take on why Cuban sold the Mavs, the future of R.S.N..s, and how Ballmer changed the game.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Author and legendary fashion journalist Plum Sykes joins Lauren to discuss the earliest Met galas, the wisdom of the young McQueen, CBK memories, and all those great town car and Hotel Costes reveries.