Blake Lively

Every semester in The Daily Californian’s arts & entertainment department, we welcome a new batch of beat reporters. While they will spend the semester reporting on a multitude of different projects and exhibits specific to their expertise, they rarely have the opportunity to focus on their topics on a small scale.

But somehow in Lionsgate’s newest book adaptation, “A Simple Favor” makes a name for itself as the surreptitious, gorgeous, entrancing matronly whodunit, which is as creative as it is enticing.

The theme for Monday night’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”