sheen

Our brains know a cartoon isn’t real — be it a rascally rabbit, a culinary rat or a dragon with the same sheen as salt licorice — and yet our hearts gift it with life.

The words “Met Gala” don’t exactly sparkle with the same sheen of glamour and mystique that they once did, at least not in 2025.

You can take that idea and run with it—maybe a glaze that incorporates whole cherries, or one made from reduced pomegranate juice that finishes the ham with a jewel-like sheen.

Santa Monica High School’s Chamber Orchestra brought a lovely, lyric sheen to Mahler’s string orchestra arrangement of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet.

The weeks leading up to Sunday’s show saw Hollywood’s Biggest Night shaping up to be Hollywood’s Biggest Mess, after a string of controversies big and small tarnished some of the ceremony’s glitzy sheen.