Next year is about sauna parties

Expect a lot more of them in NYC in 2024.

Oh good morning.

• Ariana Grande took over Morgenstern’s Ice Cream to create a Sweetener ice cream shop. The difference between Grande and Bieber’s (strawberry lip balm, donuts, remember?) activations is that the public was invited to Grande’s but seemingly not Bieber’s. I guess the public can go to any Krispy Kreme for the Rhode donut collab though.

• Former New York Times C.E.O. Mark Thompson will become the next chairman and C.E.O. of CNN. And right before an election year, at that! The first thing I remember here is that Thompson started his career as a journalist. In 2015, Thompson pledged to transform the Times into an "international institution", the same way "we once successfully turned a metro paper into a national one". The Times now has more international digital subscribers than it had total digital subscribers when Thompson took over as CEO. “It remains to be seen how Thompson will be received inside Hudson Yards. At the Times, Thompson proved to be the rare outsider capable of evolving the business without alienating the lifers. But he is also known for taking a very hands-on approach to all aspects of the business, and several Times Company sources say he longed to have greater oversight over the editorial operation there, as well.”

• LVMH heir Frederic Arnault and Blackpink star Lisa might be dating. That’s fun.