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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The New York Times Co. inked a deal with Apple to add The Athletic‘s full sports coverage to the Apple News+ subscription bundle. In addition, the Times’ Wirecutter product reviews will be available for free to all Apple News users beginning early next year.

Kathy A. McDonald Finally, Hollywood’s red-carpet drought is over and the business of awards season socializing is back. In anticipation, venues in Los Angeles and New York City are primed for entertainment industry celebrations from post-premiere blow-outs to intimate tastemaker dinners.

Madonna had the best time at her latest concert in New York City. The iconic singer continues her ‘Celebration’ tour in the United States, with many surprises for her fans apart from her incredible performance and stunning costume changes.MADONNA GETS EMOTIONAL ON STAGE TALKING ABOUT HER HEALTH SCARE: ‘I WAS UNCONSCIOUS’MADONNA BRINGS DAUGHTERS LOURDES, MERCY, AND ESTERE TO THE STAGE ON CELEBRATION TOURMADONNA SPOTTED LOOKING STRONG AND RIDING BIKES AHEAD OF HER BARCELONA CONCERTThe 65-year-old musician has previously surprised the audience by taking her children Lourdes Leon, Mercy, Estere, and Rocco Ritchie to the stage, apart from some of her celebrity friends, including Donatella Versace, Julia Fox, FKA Twigs, Diplo, Arca, among others.This time Madonna decided to change things up by including her romantic partner in the performance, during a ballroom-inspired segment of her show.

A New York appeals court denied Donald Trump‘s challenge of a gag order in his civil fraud case, ruling that his attorneys did not seek the proper legal remedy for overturning the ban.

George Clooney steps out to attend the New York screening of his new movie, The Boys In The Boat!

The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale Of New York’ is set to be released on 7-inch vinyl for charity.Frontman Shane MacGowan was laid to rest on December 8 after he died from pneumonia in hospital, aged 65, on November 30. His family, friends and the band themselves are now releasing their Christmas classic single to raise money for charity.All proceeds from the sales will go to Dublin Simon Community – a charity supported by Shane and his widow Victoria Mary Clarke.According to a press statement, the release is also to “celebrate the man himself” by getting the song, which has never topped the charts, to Number One.The 7-inch single will come with ‘Fairytale Of New York’ on the A-side with an instrumental version of the track on the B-side.

LCD Soundsystem have paid tribute to the late Shane MacGowan with a cover of The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale Of New York’.The Pogues frontman passed away “peacefully” on November 30, having died from pneumonia aged 65. His funeral occurred on Friday, December 8 in Tipperary, close to where MacGowan spent his childhood.James Murphy and co.

Mariah Carey has reunited with Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson to perform ‘Oh Santa!’ in New York. The ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ star was joined by Grande and Hudson during the New York date of her ongoing ‘Merry Christmas One & All!’ tour in Madison Square Garden on Saturday night (December 9).They performed their 2020 collaboration, a re-recording of Carey’s ‘Merry Christmas II You’ cut ‘Oh Santa!’, for her Apple TV Christmas special that year, ‘Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special’.

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Naman Ramachandran A documentary on revered filmmaker James Ivory is part of an eclectic slate from Min(d) Studio, New York, it was revealed on the sidelines of Singapore’s Asia TV Forum and Market. The boutique studio, the brainchild of Dev Benegal (New York City), Maya Patel (London and Hong Kong), Neeraj Jain (Los Angeles), came together during the pandemic with a shared vision to tell stories about people and cultures that are often unheard and unseen.

The Pogues, covered ‘Fairytale of New York’ at Shane MacGowan’s funeral yesterday (December 8). Watch the video below.The Pogues frontman passed away “peacefully” on November 30, having died from pneumonia aged 65.

The Killers have shared that they are “open” to doing a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere.The MSG Sphere is a $2.3billion (£1.8billion) dome with an 18,000 capacity and 160,000 speakers. It’s complete with an LED screen that completely wraps around inside the dome. The Sphere opened on September 29 with a residency performed by U2.After being asked In a new Q&A interview with The Guardian if the ‘Smile Like You Mean It’ hitmakers would ever do a residency at the mega venue in their hometown of Las Vegas, The Killers frontman, Brandon Flowers said: “You can take the boys out of Vegas, but it will always be a part of us.

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public return to cooking on screen Friday, in a livestream of his virtual cooking show “Molto A Casa,” from his home in tiny Northport, Michigan.He fled there after a string of accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, including rape, became public in 2017, ending his TV career and forcing him out of restaurants including Babbo, Lupa and Casa Mono, and his Eataly food markets.Batali, 63, denied all sexual misconduct but quit public life until Friday, when he held a $50-a-head live cooking class on Zoom followed by a Q&A.Asked by The Post in the Q&A if he would ever do live cooking demos back at Eataly in New York City, Batali responded: “Me and New York have parted ways. I’m done.“It was a great town.

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The Pogues‘ Christmas hit ‘Fairytale of New York’ has re-entered the Top 40 following the news of frontman Shane MacGowan‘s death.On November 30, it was announced that MacGowan passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends. Since the news, fans have begun rallying to get the song to Number One.MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke has now joined the campaign, saying she was “very much in favour” of the track topping the charts.

Lourdes Leon stepped out in New York City for an incredible performance during the celebration of the launch of Ganni x Dr. Martens. The singer and model surprised the audience with a different version of Judy Garland’s popular song ‘The Boy Next Door.’LOURDES LEON SHOWS OFF HER INCREDIBLE FIGURE IN Y2K ENSEMBLE AND STUNNING MAKEUP LOOKMADONNA BRINGS DAUGHTERS LOURDES, MERCY, AND ESTERE TO THE STAGE ON CELEBRATION TOUR LOURDES LEON RELEASES NEW SONG AND VIDEO PAYING TRIBUTE TO MADONNADuring a recent interview with Vogue, Lourdes talked about her love for the iconic star and the evolution of her musical career.

who died at 65 early Thursday — the story behind his band’s Christmas-in-the-drunk-tank classic “Fairytale of New York” began with Elvis Costello.The “Alison” singer was the Pogues’ producer at the time, and he bet the band that they couldn’t write a hit holiday single.But MacGowan and Pogues banjo player Jem Finer would prove Costello wrong after writing “Fairytale of New York” — the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century in the UK — in 1985.Finer came up with the melody and original concept for the song, which was initially about a homesick sailor on Ireland’s West Coast. But Finer’s wife suggested changing up the lyrics to be a conversation between a couple at Christmas.Then the notoriously hard-drinking MacGowan took it from there and transformed it into the Broadway-style tinsel tune we know today.“I sat down, opened the sherry, got the peanuts out and pretended it was Christmas,” he told Melody Maker in 1985.“It’s quite sloppy ….

The New York Film Critics Circle kicked off the annual year-end deluge of critics’ honors by announcing their best of 2023 today and the big winner was Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of The Flower Moon” which took Best Film. Christopher Nolan won Best Director for “Oppenheimer” while Celine Song’s “Past Lives” won Best First Film.

Refresh for updates: The oldest critics group in the U.S. is voting on the year’s best film as well as several other categories Thursday in what is a very lengthy process that soaks up most of the morning. Check back here every now and then to see who has won.