New $10 billion plan proposed to save live music venues in the US

NEW YORK -- Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and educator of lasting influence whose “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” transformed how many thought about the country’s formation, has died at 97. Bailyn's wife, Lotte, told The Associated Press that the author died early Friday at their home in Belmont, Massachusetts.

A massive fire has engulfed cooking show star Rachael Ray’s New York home.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefPowered by Chinese streaming technology, the New York Asian Film Festival will this year move from the real world to the virtual. With strong focuses on women filmmakers and Korean movies, the 19th NYAFF will run Aug.

The New York Times. “Dissolving the corrupt, dangerous, and extremist NRA organization will end an illegal scheme led by the NRA leadership to enrich themselves and push an agenda that leads to the deaths of nearly 40,000 Americans each year,” Lindsay told Metro Weekly in a statement.

Business Insider.The new feature will be rolled out to users in Australia and New Zealand today (August 5) and will be launched in other countries at a later date.It comes after Microsoft recently confirmed that it is in talks to purchase the US operations of TikTok after Donald Trump said he wanted to ban the popular app over the weekend.The tech firm recently released a statement saying: “Microsoft fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President’s concerns.

Peter White Television EditorAmerican Idol is eschewing its live casting roadshow for a virtual tour.The ABC competition series was renewed for a fourth season in May.

UTA has partnered with New York's Metrograph to present the Metrograph Drive-In, an outdoor theater series at Hamptons venue Nova's Ark. In the absence of the moviegoing experience amid the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-ins have been on the rise across the United States.

What’s the story?The three-part series, by the makers of Don’t F**K With Cats, follows the true story of the history-making organised crime investigation and prosecution case that was brought against New York’s most formidable mob bosses.“New York was held in the grip of the mafia.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorWhile it took 45 days to climb from 1 million and 2 million coronavirus cases in the United States, it took just only 16 days for infections to jump from 3 to, as of Thursday, 4 million. How did that happen?“What we have right now are essentially three New Yorks,” said White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr.

Maroon 5 is back with a new single!

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe New York Times has acquired Serial Productions, the company behind the hit podcast Serial.As part of the deal, the media company will enter into a creative and strategic alliance with longtime radio show This American Life, which developed the original Serial pod, about the murder conviction of Adnan Syed.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerIt’s almost time to play ball for Major League Baseball, as the American and National leagues are poised to embark on what promises to be the strangest season in the game’s long and storied history.The regular season finally gets underway on Thursday with the New York Yankees against the defending world champion Washington Nationals, and the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the San Francisco Giants.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe New York Times Company officially announced that it is acquiring Serial Productions, the podcast company behind the breakout hit “Serial.”As part of the Times, Serial Productions will independently commission and edit its own stories, which “will now be amplified by The Times,” the company said.In addition, the Times said it had entered into “an ongoing creative and strategic alliance” with “This American Life,” the weekly public radio program founded by host

Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Save Our Stages Act, a $10 billion Small Business Administration grant program for independent live music venue operators affected by COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are aiming for a home run in their second attempt to buy the New York Mets baseball team by partnering with a group of former top sportsmen.Earlier this year (2020), the superstar couple was said to have joined forces with JPMorgan Chase’s managing director Eric Menell, the bank’s co-head of North American media investment banking, to discuss raising the capital to potentially make an offer to the Wilpon family, which currently owns the team.They abandoned the

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the new mural will send a message that «Black lives, in fact, do matter,» reports.«That Black people built New York City, that they've never been compensated for all they did, that all the mistakes, the sins, everything in American history that has afflicted Black people have not been accounted for and must be accounted for -- something he does not understand,» he said last month.

President Donald Trump‘s tax returns are not immune from legal proceedings, the Supreme Court just ruled.